Google Friend Connect : Add social networking to your website and grow traffic
Google has release a new kind of feature for us poor web master who can’t or possibly too lazy to create a social networking on their website. Its a kind of widget you can put up on your website which acts as a social networking section where people can register. Now, as interaction with visitors are a nice way to keep them stick to your site, it increases the traffic and hopefully .. $$ . One of the thing that might interest your visitors is, it doesn’t need a separate registration. They can login with Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account.
- Enrich your site Choose engaging social features from a catalog of gadgets by Google and the OpenSocial developer community.
- Attract more visitors Your users can easily invite friends from social networks and contact lists to visit and join your site.
- No programming whatsoever Just copy and paste a few snippets of code into your site, and Friend Connect does the rest.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Its a interesting feature, but just add friends, thats it ?
December 5th, 2008 at 11:18 am
There many more features than adding friends, for instance you can put up a comment widget, you can checkout the “Social gadgets” section.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
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