As a small business, gaining greater exposure for your website or Facebook page, and having visitors spend more time on your page is something that probably occupies a lot of your thoughts and time. In this post I will share with you a unique approach to engage your website visitors with the help of conversation + Facebook and Twitter tricks and gain more exposure than you ever thought possible.

The concept seems familiar, a chat room, but in the past years chat rooms have changed from simple conversation handling to a vibrant chat solution that made a live group chat a true marketing promoter tool.

There are several new ways you can use a chat room on your website to increase your traffic.We are not talking about sales chat popping in, we are referring to a website chat-room that anyone on the website/page can talk to each other and with a website owner (with moderator control) .

So what is new about it?

A-L-O-T, live group chat of today is not a chat-room you remember from the past. Today's chats are equipped with stylish chat-room themes and have some important mobile and social presence.

In a nutshell :

1. Live Chat-room can increase your SEO (see below)
2. You can take the chat room with you via mobile or iPad.
3. In today's world we let website visitors share their thoughts to Facebook and twitter directly from a chat widget.
4. Chat can be styled up to match a website or page look and feel.
5. Now this is new, you can add the same chat into your Facebook page and use the traffic from your Facebook and your website to talk with various people.
6. Let your visitors invite their friends to the conversation.
7. Let your website visitors share pieces of the chat to Facebook and twitter with you website URL.

1. Chat-generated content increases SEO

SEO plays a major role in having your page show up better in search engines. SEO consists of several adjustments to your page, but the KING of all is content. Fresh content is a major factor in having your page appear higher in search engines.

So what if I told you that there is an easy way to create fresh content for your page?
What if I told you that your page visitors can create this content for you?

This is how:

   a.  Add a group chat to your page.
   b.  Let users discuss topics on your page and save chat history.
   c.  Copy the chat transcript (after deleting non relevant stuff).
   d.  Add the transcript into your page.

It is simple and many pages and blogs are taking advantage of group chat with the ability to save chat history (archive). Nevertheless people are sometimes reluctant to add a chat because of Spammers. The RumbleTalk plugin solves this problem in two ways:

1. Once you create your chat you have the ability to restrict chatters to use only their Facebook and Twitter profiles to login. This will reduce spam by 90% and will make sure your chat is not accessed by trolls.
2. In order to assure chatters will not use “bad words”, a chat owner can create a list of banned words and sentences to prevent users from spamming and being abusive. 

People are now aware of the fact that a social chat at your page gives an extra reason for users to come back to your page, time after time.

Tip: We recommend that you set events and ask your audience questions to encourage engagement and let them express themselves freely. 


RumbleTalk has two website boosters features that help you gain a bigger audience and spread the word via social media. These two ways include inviting friends and share content from the chats.

• Invite friends to chat: Your chatters have the option to invite their friends to the conversation. They can invite their Facebook friends or their twitter followers.

Share chat content in social networks: Your chatters can send part of the conversation to their Facebook and twitter friends.

1. Group discussions – Having a chat box on a page is a great way to encourage discussions during a live show or event. Many radio shows, live bloggers, live podcasters, reading book groups and real-time streaming pages are using chat boxes.
2. Social Trading – Stock and option trading used to be done solely via machines. However, during the past 8 years a new concept has emerged - a social trading for “Humans”. It includes mainly a social chat and forum where professionals trade together while chatting, sharing images and videos in the chat. Group chat has become an essential tool for traders. 
3. Online Events – There are a lot of online events (even on Facebook). One of the best ways to “feel” your audience is through a group chat. For example, there was a Pre-Launch of a famous book where the author revealed chapters of the book to his audience via group chat. The chat was a significant tool in this event to gauge readers' reaction to the new book.
4. Educational chat – Adding a chat to a virtual classroom makes it very attractive to students. Being able to add images and videos only amplifies the experience. Over 10 universities and over 100 e-learning websites are using RumbleTalk.

Author Bio
Eyal Misk is the CEO of RumbleTalk. Rumbletalk is a boutique chat-room platform that powers over 135000 websites.