Website Widgets - What Are They? How Do They Work?

For the uninitiated, it might seem like a widget is just a funny name for an application you don't quite understand. But these days, thanks to the increasing popularity of widgets, most of us have either installed one on our web page, or clicked on one at some else's site.

Understanding widgets is essential to maintaining a useful and interactive website. A widget is technically anything that's embedded on a web page and holds content that's not static, and which is usually brought upon by third parties.

So, some widgets you might see include those for You Tube. A site on motorcycle racing, for example, might have a You Tube widget. When you click on the You Tube widget, you will be take to You Tube and might even be provided with a page that includes a variety of motorcycle racing videos.

At some sites, you might see a widget for Wordpress, and clicking on that widget will take you to the Wordpress blog that the site maintains. The widget will always include the logo or standard graphic of the site or company.

Let's consider how a few Twitter widgets work, since Twitter widgets are on websites and blogs the world over these days.

One of the most common is the widget created by Twitter itself. This usually includes the logo Twitter bird and the words, "follow me on Twitter". When you click on the widget, you're taken to the Twitter page of that person, or company. This is an excellent way for Twitter users to increase their number of overall followers.

Another useful Twitter widget is found at TweetThisSite. This widget works a bit in reverse, with website owners putting the widget on their page. Users, who think that they wouldn't mind promoting the site a bit, simply provide their Twitter log in information and the widget automatically places a post on the user's Twitter page that says the user is checking out the site and provides a link to the site.

Using these widgets is an easy, free way to increase visibility and get more traffic to a site. There are few methods to do these things that really work, but using widgets, which are unobtrusive but effective, is one method that really does work.

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Twitter Marketing Secrets - Swamp Your Website With Traffic With 3 Powerful Twitter Secrets!

Any company looking to use Twitter marketing tips need to consider these three tips of they will simply fail. Making use of the three tips which you will find below will attract far more appeal for your website and will also bring you repeat traffic to your online business.

Twitter Tip #1: Market your Twitter web link within your website. You wont produce any 'followers' if none of your visitors know you have a Twitter account. You have got to concentrate on attracting followers, or your Twitter advertising marketing plan will be totally useless.

Twitter Tip #2: Place a Twitter widget on your site. This widget will show all your Twitter updates and messages on your website so your visitors can keep up to date with what is going on. It also allows them to embed your Twitter widget on their sites that additionally generates more Twitter followers.

Twitter Tip #3: Use your Twitter account daily that means Tweet daily! If you use this sort of advertising you must make sure you Tweet your twitter account on a constant basis. However you must not over use your Twitter account, but you must make sure you use it on a regular basis. If you are not effective with your Twitter account, you will not take care of your Twitter followers.

This sort of advertising could attract a lot of subscribers back to your online business time and time again. Moreover, using Twitter it is a great way to keep your followers or any new subscribers in check with any special deals you might have running.

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How to Add a Twitter Feed to Your Website Or Blog

If you want to add a Twitter feed to your website or blog that will show your most recent tweets then here's what you need to do.

Log into your Twitter account. At the bottom of the page is a tab called Goodies.

Select this tab and you will be taken to a page that had a choice of Widgets or buttons.

Select widgets and you will be taken to a page that asks you to select your widget. As you want to add a Twitter feed to your website or blog choose the 'My Website' tab on the top left of the page.

On the next page you have a number of widget options. To display your latest tweets on your website or blog choose "Profile Widget"

This will take you to a page that has an example of your Twitter feed. You can now make a number of changes to the feed so that it fits into the design of your website or blog.

You can change the number of tweets displayed if you select the 'Preferences' tab

You can change the colours of the feed box by selecting the 'Appearance' tab. Try and choose a colour scheme that matches the colours in your website or blog.

You can also change the dimensions of the Twitter feed box by selecting the 'Dimensions' tab.

Once you have made your style selections click on the 'Test settings' tab at the bottom of the page. This will display your selected version of the Twitter feed. If you are happy with your choices then click on the 'Finish and Grab Code' tab.

A box will appear with the HTML code that you need to us to add a Twitter feed to your website or blog. Copy and paste the code to a notepad.

Open up your html editor. I use Kompozer. Insert the piece of code that you saved on notepad into your website or blog. Upload your amended website and blog using a FTP client. I use Filezilla.

Have a look at your website to make sure your feed is working.

That's how to add a Twitter feed to your website or blog.

 

David Lascelles lives in Cobham Surrey UK

David teaches BEGINNERS the basics of internet marketing.

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