Browser Toolbars for Blog communities
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It is always important to hold your readers to your websites and make them good engagers to your blog, This can be done by Facebook Fan Pages, Google Friend Connect and Wibiya Widget.
Today I am going to review a really new and unique idea to build a blog community and that too in a 10 minutes.
Conduit has launched a new feature of creating browser(Firefox, Internet Explorer) Toolbars for your Blog Communities. This feature will increase reader engagement and generate more traffic.
The best thing of this toolbar is that you can easily edit and create a feature rich toolbar for your community using the simple Toolbar creator in a few minutes. And features are quite comparable to that found in popular toolbars like Google and Yahoo.
The Feature list:
1. Basic Components
- Your Logo – Add a logo and link to your website.
- Link Button – Add links to specific pages.
- Menu Button – Add Drop Down Menus
- News Ticker – A News Ticker as shown in Tv News Channels.
- Link in Main Menu – These links show up in the main configuration menu next to the Logo.
- Separator – It is used to separate sections of the toolbar.
- Label – Add Tags and Labels
2. Search
- Your Search – Add your site search.
- Community Search – Searches only through a list of sites mentioned by the creator.
- Search Localization – Get search according to one’s localization.
- Highlighter – This Handy Tool Highlights the search terms.
3. Popular
- Radio Player – Play music from a set of online radio stations.
- Weather – Get access to the local and Global weather.
- Email Notifier – Get Notifications for unread emails from your favorite email clients
- Popup Blocker and Privacy – A really handy tool to block Adware.
- Your Gadget – Add a custom gadget.
- RSS Reader – This feature is really good for blogs, because the community can view all the latest posts via Rss Drop Down Menu
4. Games and Media
- Games
- TV
- Gadgets
- Podcast
5. Social and Messages
- Twitter Reader – Add your twitter accounts so that readers can easily follow and read your latest tweets.
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Chat – Community chats
- Message Box – Messaging in toolbar itself.
- Message Ticker – Latest Messages are shown in Ticker form.
There are other Advanced Features and also ability to add gadgets from the Marketplace.
In all it is a fully loaded Toolbar Creator with no requirement of any programming skills.
I have created a Toolbar for Blog Godown. Download it and give your feedback, if you want some more features to be added to it, comment and let me know.
And once i update the toolbar, you can easily upgrade the previous toolbar by clicking on Upgrade in the main menu. Go ahead and Download!!
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October 31, 2009 - 10:51 am
Gautam This is really very nice toolbar for blogger. I will use this toolbar on my browser. Hey Gautam my blog PR increase from 1 to 3. What about your blog?
October 31, 2009 - 4:59 pm
My also went from 2 to 3.
October 31, 2009 - 5:28 pm
Congrats Gautam. So what the advantage you will take by this PR update?
October 31, 2009 - 7:24 pm
Hi there. This toolbar does appear to be very interesting and one that I will try for sure. Increasing readers engagement is always a top priority for me and if this one helps, all the better. Thanks for this find
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November 1, 2009 - 6:50 am
Great article by you once more!! Definitely you have been writing blog promotion tools and increasing visitors arrival on a blog.
Well do you have active digging circle?
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November 1, 2009 - 10:33 am
I don't think it is much of an advantage, just pleases me . that's all
November 1, 2009 - 10:36 am
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November 1, 2009 - 4:17 pm
Hi Guatam,
It's a good topic – these toolbars definitely add a lot to a website in my opinion … and I've definitely noticed benefits since adding one to my own blog. Is there any downside them though ? Security? Privacy? Other issues ? Or is it all just positive? ( I hope so!)
Best wishes
Willl
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November 1, 2009 - 9:49 pm
The only downside i can see is the loading time. It can increase by a substantial amount of the toolbar is really heavy.
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November 3, 2009 - 7:05 pm
that's sound great thanks for giving this wonderful toolbar.i will use it in my blog and definitely tell you the results.like your stuffs.thanks for posting this useful information.keep sharing.
November 6, 2009 - 2:34 am
Hi Gautam,
Yes, I've seen many sites with this toolbar. But I'm not sure. I wouldn't like to increase the time my site takes to load.
See you
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November 6, 2009 - 7:03 am
Hi haven't tried this toolbar but have installed the wibiya toolbar and you are right you will increase your readership with these types of toolbars.They are very user friendly as well.
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November 6, 2009 - 7:33 pm
This has nothing to do with the site time, this toolbar is downloaded by you user in his firefox, so it does not take that much time
November 8, 2009 - 5:18 am
This has one serious problem, doesn`t work with Chrome.
If ourtoolbar.com open sources it, I can write extension for chrome!
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November 9, 2009 - 1:37 pm
They're supposed to be convenient, like if you want to search for something right away. Instead of going to Google.com, you can just click the toolbar and type in your search.But the other features, I don't know.
November 11, 2009 - 12:02 am
yeah
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November 11, 2009 - 12:15 am
They are quite convenient and plus you make them really convient and snazzy
November 12, 2009 - 2:41 pm
really great site.last time i came to your blog and gone through your post i used your toolbar really its great thanks for sharing this useful information with the users of this blog.i hope you will share again informative post.keep it up.
November 13, 2009 - 6:14 pm
i used this tool bar and i got tremendous results.i am thankful to you for posting this useful information.
December 7, 2009 - 7:09 pm
looking really an excellent toolbar and wonderful for entertainment and professional purpose ,i have seen it on so many websites.thanks!
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February 18, 2010 - 6:08 pm
Nice toolbar…
But what is the use of this toolbar