When developing website widgets there are certain elements that’s crucial to include for it to be really great for users and to provide you with the value and effect you wish for as a marketer / publisher. Here are the 6 elements that I consider highly essential for a successful website widget.

If you’re building website widgets for marketing you’re hopefully getting good traffic because of it. But are you also leveraging the power of linking from your widgets to its full extend? Here’s my take on how to gain the most link value from widget marketing.

I’m not kidding you! Google has really begun to promote my website via adwords - FOR FREE. What makes this even better is that the ads also show up in adsense on my website, so I get paid to have my services promoted! I know this sounds unbelievable so here’s what’s going on.

Web widgets are things of all kinds that you can easily add to a website, start page, social network profile etc. To the user there’s many different kinds of usage. But to you widgets are comprehensive viral marketing tools with the purpose of driving traffic and getting links.