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chat widget - For the last decade, the underlying design of the internet makes it a widely popular medium for expression. This medium has developed into even multimillion dollar business to free forums for sharing information. Today's method of sharing information and communication has come leaps and bounds from yesteryear's bulletin boards up to chat rooms and even dedicated chatting software with very advanced features, like sharing files and live video streaming.

When text based chatting was initially developed, there were only dedicated software from Yahoo! or AOL utilizing the lions share. At nearly the same time frame website owners and developers joined the revolution wagon and started enabled chat rooms for a website to increase traffic.

This was based on the general conception a user would repeatedly get back to the website to use the chat room. In the present age chat rooms are nearly something of the past and have been replaced by more interactive and even voice enabled environments like 'Second Life'. However, that doesn't mean that there is no need for enabled boards for a website to increase traffic.

To utilize and implement the feature correctly, one must place the chatrooms about the front page of their website, or perhaps the FAQ's page. Rather than old fashioned chat rooms even newer applications, like ChatStat, which is more intuitive and will run right on your browser may be a better option.

Enabled boards for a website to increase targeted traffic can be successful if the chat system is not merely resource intensive, but even qualified to run on very slow internet connections. Advanced functions like live chat translation can also be an added bonus, but despite having such added features boards are not very simple for any or every website available and must be carefully evaluated before successful implementation.