This is nice and quite useful! This is the solution I was looking for, because I wanted to show to my visitors which my recent articles are besides the entire article collection divided in my own categories.

I have in my home page a square (my Ezine Articles Expert banner) and my Platinum Member banner…
If someone clicks that square he or she can see the last articles, but the widget is much better. I like it!

I’m improving my site now and this will be part of its new look. Thank you!

Well done, very well done!

The uses are many, and I’ve already got mine on my GreatArticleMarketingBlog.com

Seems like each time you make EZA better it makes us better…

Jeff

It’s brilliant instant overpowering. I saw it happening before my eyes.

EZA, Ahoy! I’m learning a trick everyday.

Jeff, I had a look at your blog and I think the widget looks great. It really compliments your blog.

Francois

~ Teli

Oh my…I love this idea!
Guess this means I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow after by day job!

You keep surprising us. One innovative dude!

Karen

Thanks for this great tool!

Lalitha
lalithabrahma.com

This widget seems to answer at least the last question. If the article is original and belongs to you, you can put it in your blog or on your website.

Since using the widget assumes that the article has been published by eZine to be included, does this mean that I should first submit to eZine and then other directories after your approval? The same for my blog?

1) Your articles do not need to be exclusive to EzineArticles.com; but they do need to be exclusive to you personally… meaning, they are not PLR or non-exclusive rights content.

The widget doesn’t answer the last question because it’s no more than an RSS feed in a Javascript envelope to make it easy for webmasters to slap it into their template in seconds.

2) Yes, submit first to EzineArticles.com. :) What? You thought I’d say otherwise? Submit wherever you get the most bang for your content contribution.

We just added this to your Membership Interface.

You’ll find it under AUTHOR TOOLS, CREATE A WIDGET.

We’re still tweaking it daily thanks to a dozen reports about the way our members needed various things fixed with it — to make it more compatible with various CSS issues.

Some asked for a non-Javascript version so they could add this to your their MySpace or FB sites? This Widget is purely an Ajax Javascript thing and would be completely a different thing if we didn’t do it in Javascript.

One cool feature just added yesterday: The ability to change the colors of your theme to match your website! How cool is that?

We’re going to tweak on it for a few more days before releasing it to our entire base of members.

I forgot to share this important FYI:

Because it’s Javascript, the search engines WILL NOT index it when they find it on your website!

This is exactly what you want.

Why? Because then adding it to your site will not cause any real or perceived duplicate content penalty.

For your audience, the Widget exists….but any search engine visiting your site, doesn’t see it or index it.

That’s one of the reasons why we love Javascript for this Widget.

Finally using the wonderful widget. First two blogs went ticketdy-boo!

Been trying to add 15 home based business articles to my Virtual Agent blog and NO WAY!
All I get is the EZ box saying no articles by this author.

I went over and over it, redoing to no avail.

What am I doing wrong with this one?

Karen

That’s weird, didn’t work for me either:

Ok, our dev team is on it.

We found and fixed the error.

Please try again.

In addition, we re-ordered the category drop down to be in alphabetical order for easier category identification. :)

Thanks to you and your fast-as-lightning dev team for fixing problems…pronto!

Works like a charm!

Karen

We just spent the last 3+ weeks perfecting this widget, adding new features (such as the customization settings that help the widget to match your site layout) and improving compatibility based on user feedback.

Thanks for your suggestions & input on this fun project!

If you’ve implemented the EzineArticles Widget on your website, I invite you to post a blog comment on this thread to show us your implementation. Just post your URL in the body of the blog comment along with telling us where to find it. Most are putting it in their left or right navigation above or below the fold.

Thanks for the wonderful add ons. I started my blog recently and I placed the Widget on the right hand side. Here it is
http://lalithasimpleology.blogspot.com/

By the way, as we add articles, will they be automatically added to the widget?

YES!

Every time you add a new article, the widget is updated as soon as the article is accepted/approved and live on the site.

What a great idea … I have already added custom widgets to my two websites at
http://www.10stepmarketing.com/freearticles.htm
http://www.6figureworkathomemom.com/free-stuff.html

Next I’ll add to my blog!

Thanks for making this SO easy and making it possible to customize the widget to match our sites!

I’m a little behind on my article writing so I guess this will serve as an incentive to get writing!

Debbie

You are a truly creative fellow, Chris. Karen is not exaggerating when she says you are king of the world. I think this new innovation speaks louder than bragging about your platinum status with a mere small box banner. It is not only informative but also decorative. I need to change template first before implementing this widget. Thanks again Chris.

Best Regards,

Majelis

You know I could not agree more. I see you have many great articles here, I guess you have a new reader fan; namely ME! - Lance

We’ll consider that in a few months. Right now, we’re worried that we’re providing too many options. Too many options may lead to disengagement or the perception that it’s too complicated to install.

I’m glad you get the brilliance of the fact that this Widget is Javascript based and because of that, it doesn’t get indexed by the search engines and therefore creates no harm and provides value to your web visitors without costing you any link love.

David Westbrook doesn’t agree with you or I on this issue and he said so on his site a few weeks ago:
http://www.dewpointproductions.com/seo_blog/article-marketing/ezinearticles-widget-a-case-of-how-not-to-promote-yourself/

However, his recommendation isn’t “wrong”… just a little more difficult for some people who are not intimate with their CMS (Content Management System).

–
Majelis,

I can’t take the credit for the development of this widget as our development team lead the creation, bug fixing and management of the resources to support this new feature. :)

Also, THANK YOU! for the very useful mouse pad and specs on my article views. I cannot help but feel prompted to write, write, write now for sure!

Kathy

Kudos!!!!!!

This inspires me to post some more articles.

Thanks for continuing to add value for your authors.

@Chris - I read David Westbrook’s post and do disagree with him as you said I would.

Like you said not everybody has ‘an intimate relationship with their CMS’. I would bet that there are a lot of authors out there that have never even heard of a widget until this post and many more that have a good old fashioned website that they would like to promote their articles on and not a blog. This will give them an equal opportunity to promote their articles.

The other important thing that you said was that it ‘provides value to your web visitors’. You can never have too many tools that accomplish that. I think it is great. Well done.

** To avoid confusion, the first post by “Brandi” that referred to the duplicate content issue was by Brandi Reilly. I would agree with her statement, but cannot take credit for it. ;-)

I don’t know what you’re talking about… ;-)

Well, I got the mouse-pad in your pic here above in the mail the other day. Also enclosed was a letter commenting on one of my my poems that has had over 12K reads now.

I was just taking this opportunity to ‘thank you’.

It you are referring to my other comment, I made a ‘widget’ of my poems posted on EA and posted it on one of my blogs.

Thank you for your benefits-oriented approach to taking care of business!

Cutie as is can be!

Is why would I use this instead of RSS feed?

Because I would not do both of course.

So which is better or am I not getting something?

Signed, Dumb Blond (?)

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Use either the EzineArticles Widget or inject your EzineArticles RSS Feed into your website CMS… your choice.

The EzineArticles Widget is based on AJAX technology. AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. RSS feeds are XML… so essentially, the widget is based on the RSS feed…however, to insert an RSS feed into your website is a little more complicated than just copying/pasting the short Widget code.

Sincerely,

Robb Auspitz

Now when I write a new article it will automatically be available on my web site.

Well done.

Just installed the widget on my blog. It didn’t even take me 5 minutes and I think it looks great!

The url is http://online-marketing-from-home.com

Thanks again!
Francois

Thanks to a member suggestion:

We’ve just added a new size to the widget: 160 pixels.

Previously, the shortest width was 180 pixels; but now you can select 160 pixels wide if you so desire.

Nice implementation:
http://blog.coach-companion.com/ezinearticles/

One recommendation for Denise and everyone who implements this Widget:

It’s better to put it in your left or right navigation or in your footer include (as a last resort if left or right nav isn’t going to work); than to only do a blog entry with the widget included in it.

Reason: You and we both want to help your website readers to read your freshest EzineArticles content.

Aila