Blog Chat Box Gadget, Do You Really Need It?

Basically, whatever was done by a blogger in order to build his blog, and for not deviate from standard rules that apply on the internet, is legitimate and normal. In addition, blogging also has a very fundamental aspect allows a blogger to do as he likes, that is blogging as a medium of self-expression.

Blogging as a self-expression, usually done by, for example, adding a variety of gadgets. Indeed, the gadget or a widget is a very attractive feature for a blogger. The teenage bloggers who do personal blogging or just for fun blogging, is a group of bloggers who are usually very fond of gadgets. They could spend hours in tweaking with various gadgets.

A gadget that is often found on many blogs is a chat box gadget. Chat box gadgets offered by many websites on the web, either free or have to pay. By adding a chat box gadget in blog, there are some positive benefits to be gained by a blogger. Among them are, but are not limited to:

1. Making a blog becomes more attractive, interactive and communicative. Thus, between a blog owner and blog visitors will be easier to communicate.
2. As a tool, in addition to visitor trackers certainly, which allows to calculate of how many blog visitors did visiting, though a chat box gadget is less accurate.
3. In addition to via email and blog visitor's comment on posts or articles, a chat box gadget also useful as a media to leave messages for blog visitors.
4. For blog visitors, they could see who else had just visited the blog.
5. Easing the blog owner to do a track back.
6. Media for blogger's blogwalking.

However, for a semi-professional or a professional blogger who is more priority on his blog content and using his blog as a strategic transformation media of his useful information to information searchers on the web, it seems, a chat box gadget is not a requirement to be used. Conversely, a chat box gadget could be a feature that is inefficient and counter productive to the objectives of (serious) blogging.

Here are some things to consider, when a blogger will be adding a chat box gadget (but are not limited to below too):

1. Can cause your focus and concentration is reduced or decreased in making the quality and original blog content.
2. Indeed, a chat box gadget usually is a frame, but when there are people who enter a spam script or malicious javascript, the frame of its chat box gadget is located on the page of blog.
3. Becoming a cause of why your blog is slow in loading.
4. Especially for a blogger who desire to be a Google AdSense publisher, it is necessary to understand the implicit term of "chat sites". There is a page on AdSense Help forum, which involves the issue of chat sites. Although it may have a different perception, but it is better to be more careful regarding a chat box gadget.
5. Will make you feel uncomfortable because of a greeting in the chat box gadget that says: "Hi, nice blog friend. Would you please visit me back?".

Do you really need a chat box gadget for your blog?