Blog software takes on many different forms and some would argue that a widget is not software. I differ. I feel that any piece of code that is run to gain an effect is software. This widget can be used anywhere, on a blog or on a web site.
The widget I am referring to is from Ezine Articles. This widget can be formated to display short extracts from articles from whichever category you select. Every time the page is refreshed a new set of articles are displayed. Is this fresh content? When a search engine spider visits it will read the data in the widget. The next time it visits the data will have changed and so the search engine will update its data. To that end, it is fresh content – just not in the format that we are used to.
The widget can be customized when it comes to colors and sits quite nicely in your side bar. The content can be customized to fit in with the genre of your blog. This of course provides additional reading material once your visitor has finished on your site. A little tip, don’t place the widget to close to the top. You want your visitors reading your work before spotting something else and moving on to that article.
