It is not a bubble anymore – now there are a lot of little ones rapidly filling the webosphere. They are called Widgets and they are coming here to stay.
They started up like the websites used to be – a new thing mostly used for fun and games. But now, websites such as www.xywidgets.com and www.goowy.com are showing that widgets are becoming serious service tools and in fact cancel the need for a website. Take for example the price quotes widgets offered by xywidgets.com.
If until recently there were a few websites offering price quotes for products and services, now the quote widgets do the same without the need for a website. Furthermore, in the website case, great as it may be with fabulous usability and content, it still has to be found and constantly SEOed. The widgets, in turn are viral in nature and are built so that people can easily add them to their existing websites or blogs, where relevancy itself brings the traffic and indeed the conversions. Xywidgets.com offers the webmasters and bloggers a 50% revenue share obtained from professionals replying to quote requests. So, by nature a quote widget for SEO's would most likely be found on websites and blogs discussing web marketing issues because those site owners are most likely to choose this widget for it is the most relevant to their readers and most likely to earn them cash. Does this really mean the end for websites? Not necessarily, we still need the big ships and the malls even if we use more boats and kiosks than before.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
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