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Using Widgets to Build Link Popularity & Blog Page Rank – Increasing Value with Customized Widgets

There are numerous articles, some quite repeating the basic concepts & expectations of building your website & blog’s value in the eyes of the search engines.

The caution always is to create a strong content oriented site that attracts continuous visitors from search engines.

However, the caution is not to create content just for search engines. There are also options to make money from widgets on blogs.

Stephen Spencer’s article on using widgets to build website & Blog’s Page Ranking with the Search Engines talks how a carefully planned widget could help build page ranks, build search engine content & at the same time provide additional contextual information to visitors.

Widgets are a great way of sharing publisher content on your blog or site. In the same lines, you could distribute widgets that contain your published content.

RSS is a great example – these syndication feeds that are picked up by fellow bloggers provide a great way to build links. Most of the blogging software allow RSS to be distributed in widgetised formats.

Widgets can also be bought or you can have sponsored widgets. I have shared a few popular widgets to cross pollinate your content. Several developers on Yahoo! would write up customized widgets & include your blog or site’s link in them. Any webmaster that uses the widget will automatically carry a link to your content.

Widget Bucks is an example where webmasters can make money with custom widgets. Sign up is free & you can set up widgets in minutes. The widget displays advertises contextual articles & products & webmasters make money from widgets on blogs.

Customized widgets are also a great way to build blog visibility in the eyes of Search Engines. A few tips that again come from Stephen Spencer is Viral Widgets – the ability of Widgets to go “viral”. Making a widget easy to “grab” & replicate makes it viral. With more people using the widget, your site link built into the widget gets automatic links.

Sponsored widgets not only builds links & improves Page Rank, but they are also great advertising tools. Tools like Widget Bucksnot only allows publishers like you to earn money from clicks, the links in them also help you earn referral money. Since Widget Bucksare easy to implement, other publishers can sign up & you can make money from their referrals.

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