Chat has quickly become one of the most popular features on the internet.

The free chat function allows multiple visitors who happen to be on your website at the same time to converse with one another in real time. This feature is every bit as popular with site builders as it is with surfers, because it greatly increases the amount of time that visitors stay on their sites.

Methods of increasing the popularity of your chat room include:

1. Booking celebrities or other people of interest to visit your chat room.
2. Create chat rooms around certain specific subjects that may be particularly interesting to your visitors.
3. Scheduling debates on high profile topics (politics, money, death penalty and the likes).

Where to get Chat for your site.

Bravenet.com also now offers both instant on-line paging and a Java applet chat script. An advantage of going with Bravenet.com is that they have a ton of cobrandable services all in one place. Cobrandable means that you can make the service look like your website. To keep it free, you will have to put up with ads being served. If you like it enough to pay for it, you can always upgrade.

Other advantages of the Bravenet.com chat room service include mulitple languages, a Chat Index at Bravenet that could bring you more traffic, cut and paste code for easy installation, and no download necessary.

Live Help, Support, Chat CRM solution for live chat providing live help & support for sales and support response, real time visitor monitoring, proactive chat invitation, hits counter, operator multiple chat, chat transfer. Not free, but a professional service.

If you feel up to installing your own CGI chat script (and if your server will allow it!), look at

• The CGI Resource Index Perl Chat Scripts. They also have a rating system, so you can get an idea of what other folks think of a script before trying it yourself.
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