Blogwalking is an activity of blogger to surf from one blog to the other blog, read its content, give comment, ask for link exchange or just leave comment in shout box. Blogwalking is very useful to promote our blog, increase Alexa rank and the most important is to make friendship among bloggers.

Some people blogwalking just leave message in shoutbox in hoping the owner visit back to their blog, maybe like me, this is the easiest way instead giving comment on post because we should read the article first, but when we read any article we get something useful and add our knowledge.

There are some service that offer us free chat box or shout box such as Cbox, Shoutmix, Meebome, Oggix, Sbox, and others. The most famous shoutbox or chat box I know is Shoutmix. During blogwalking I found many shoutmix chat widget than other services. As I know that shoutmix is very simple, easy but very interesting. We can customize our chat widget so looks different than others.

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Facebook is one of very popular social networking (micro blogging), most people who know about internet mostly have facebook account. Facebook connect you with your friend around the world, you can easily check what they are doing by looking their status.

Adding facebook status to a blog is very simple and I think many blogger know it. I just wanna share to everyone, so you can also put your status to your blog, it is very useful to make a friendship. People who like you will add you as their friend.

There are many ways in order to place your facebook status to your blog, some plugins (for wordpress) have already made by plugin maker and ready to use, but now I just use code that given by facebook itself.

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Adding YM Online Status to your blog is very useful, In this way you tell your blog visitors whether you are online or not, so your visitors can chat with you when they see your YM status is online. Also many people use this status for their business, they put this status to their website so everyone who want to use or buy their product or service can ask to customer service if they are in confusion.

There are steps that you must follow to add Your YM Online Status to your blog.

1. Download plugin YM status widget here.
2. Upload plugin you have downloaded to your plugin folder.
3. Activate your plugin from Admin Panel.
4. After YM status plugin actived, go to Appearance and choose Widgets.
5. New widget named YM Status is available now, add to your sidebar or footer.
6. Fill the Title and Your YM Username.
7. Choose style from option style.
8. Save your setting.
9. Congratulation you have made your YM online status now.

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