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For promoting articles using a blidget first you need to understand how works a blidget. Imagine that your blidget is a small window that you can put on your website. The visitors to your website can see from this window the last posts of your blog or your RSS feeds. If the visitors find good information, they can enter to see more information, using this window as a door. Also, if they like so much the information, they can install the same window on their website. More people can see your blog and can copy the same window from their websites, too.

Analyzing all above, you can deduce that a blidge can be a powerful tool to promote your articles. How do you create a blidget? First you need to create an account in the site www.widgetbox.com following the steps that are in the site. When you have a widgetbox account you are ready to create your blidget.

Creating Your Blidget

Here, the steps to create your blidget

• Log in the site www.widgetbox.com
• Click “Make a Widget”
• Click the “Blog/Feed” button
• Write your blog or feed URL in the blank space

For example you can use the triond user http://www.triond.com/users/JRWhyte. You can replace JRWhyte for your own pen name.

Slideshow Blidget

If you have several articles published in Webupon, Writinghood or another Triond’s blog, you can get their URL by opening one your articles in a new page, clicking in your pen name and copy and paste the URL of the result page in the blank space. Using the URL http://www.webupon.com/writers/JRWhyte.76099 you can make a blidget like this:

List Blidget

Now you can customize your blidge: its appearance, content and details. Do not forget to check on the box “include summaries”. Every time that you make a change, your blidget image changes. If you want to see information about your blidget click on the upper right corner when you see a letter “i” into a circle.

You can choose if you like that your bliget appears in the widgetbox gallery or not. For appearing your blidget in a gallery you need to wait for the approval of the widgetbox site.  The advantage that have your bliget in the gallery is that the visitors of the gallery can see your blidget. If you feel happy with the appearance of your blidget, you can continue with the next step.

• Click “Continue” button
• Enter the tags that describe your blidget
• Click the button “Save Blidget”
• Read the Developer Agreement including content guidelines. Check the box
• Click the button “Save blidget”

Installing your widget

Well, now you finished your blidget, you can install in a website or in a blog. Press the tab “My Widget Box” and click in your blidget URL. Click get a Widget. You have several options for install your blidget: Embebed Code, MySpace, Facebook, Blogger, Typepad, WordPress, LiveJournal, Tagged, Multiply and other alternatives. Every option has its instruction to install. Choose the option that you want. You can edit your blidget at any time.

Another useful features of bidgets are  statistics. You can see blidget total views,  blidget views by domain among other data. You can see more details visiting widgetbox website.