Comments on: Widgets – How Useful are they?

By: ram

ram — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:13:53 +0000

excessive use of widgets effect the blog speed and look cluttered. I use only mybloglog widget

By: Ken Xu

Ken Xu — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:26:38 +0000

Hi, Robert Eilers. Thanks for your comment. Yes, overuse never cause a good effect for our blog. I agree that we should select carefully what are we going to put on our blog to prevent something bad happening to our blog.

MyTagr, Widget for sitetraffic is the idea of blogrush. But I don’t think so it could bring alot of traffic if your syndication network is not wide enough to trigger the traffic rush. But, yes, widget could help us bring minor traffic.

Thanks for commenting at my blog post!

By: Silki Garg

Silki Garg — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:38:45 +0000

Hi Ken ^ Nirmal,
Useless widgets are sometimes useful too, albeit in a different way.
LOL,
For instance, they straightaway tell me that the blog is run by a newbie, who is just learning the art and science of blogging.
Haha, that’s my my way of interpretation.

By: Silki Garg

Silki Garg — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:21:26 +0000

Hi, Ken and Nirmal.
But sometimes useless widgets are useful also, albeit fo a different reason.
LOL,
For example, if I see some useless widgets on a blog, it immediately tells me that the blog is run by a novice, who is just learning to play with them. Seriously, useless widgets on a website or blog is a sure shot way of making a judgement

By: Robert Eilers

Robert Eilers — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:49:37 +0000

I love widgets, but I also love simple sites. Widgets can be a great compliment to a blog. Making them better and more user friendly. Of course too much of a good thing turns into a bad thing.

There is a new pudding flavor out called pumpkin spice and last night I ate a big bowl of pumpkin pudding and cool whip. Tasted really good. However my body sure didn’t feel good about an hour later. I had a lot of a good thing but it sure turned into a bad thing.

Too many widgets can surely turn into a bad thing. You may not feel right away, but your visitors will. Visitors don’t like having bad experiences and when they do…they won’t be back.

By: mytagr

mytagr — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:18:02 +0000

Hi,
nice post.
i like widgets.
widgets becomes a part of the web2.0. you can remix the web or create mashups of the web. for webmasters
are widgets great tools to ush u sitetraffic.