Google Friend Connect is a unique service by Google which will enable website owners to increase traffic by allowing any site to offer social features for the users and visitors. So if you have a travel, lifestyle or entertainment portal which is not a typical social networking site, you can still become one and thereby increase the flow of traffic to your site. By simply adding a code to the site, the owner can get access to several social features even without having to go into some difficult programming. You can choose from various functions like invitations, message posting, members’ gallery, registration, and reviews, and also applications by third parties.

Visitors who use Google Friend connect can also invite and talk with friends already existing on other social networking sites like hi5, Google Talk, Facebook, orkut and Plaxo and many others. Some renowned musicians have used Google Friend Connect feature iLike and iLike Open Social application on their own website. So fans can now freely connect with friends without signing out of the particular website. Visitors can use all the features of iLike application which includes adding songs to their profiles, viewing comments by friends, seeing who is doing what, and other features as well. Google Friend Connect helps you stay in touch with your friends even while surfing other sites on the web. The iLike Artist Dashboard is the first such content management system that will provide artists a platform to post listings of their concerts, latest albums and videos from a single dashboard to all social networking sites. At they same time they can manage content on their sites too.

Many might wonder how the Google Friend Connect works without any programming. The administration of the Friend Connect site displays a catalog of social gadgets offered by other developers including Google. Decide what all gadgets you need for your site and just copy code snippets and place them on your site as you want it. The main gadget among the ones made by Google is the member’s gadget that offers important features for your website like singing in with your already existing yahoo, AIM or Google account; invite friends from other networks; view profiles on different social networks and also make new friends. You can also add applications created by different developers other than Google.

Once you have added Fiend Connect, you can immediately interact with friends who are members and invite others from various social networking sites. If you wish to post any message on the message board you can do that instantly and make it visible for others as well. If you are a visitor, it is simple to switch on to another site. All you need to do is accept privacy options and hey, you are in another site.

In Google Friend Connect everyone is a winner. The site owner who in no time will experience an increase in the volumes of the traffic, the visitors of the site who can interact with existing friend and develop new friends without leaving the site, open social developers who can run social gadgets and applications on any site, and social networks who bring friends together.

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