If you want to make your website more interactive and attract thousands of visitors on a regular basis, then adding an online chat box to the website is perhaps one of the most effective solutions. By putting a proper website chat box script on your desired place you will get real time feed backs of the site visitors on your website or its product and services.

There are various types of plugins or add-ons available over the net which you can use to improve your website. We have discussed about a few plugins which may not be very difficult to use but can definitely give an added edge to your website and make it more interactive to the visitors.

All chat box html and chat box scripts and services presented in this article are free to use and more powerful features with Preminum upgrade: Chatango, Meboo.me, GagaLive, CBox, MyShoutBox, Simple Ajax Shoutbox for WordPress, Chatroll Live Chat, 123 Flash Chat, Parachat, Gabbly.

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4. CBox

CBox.ws offers free chat box that as a very simple layout but super easy to use and modify. But one can upgrade it to premium account as well. The basic Cbox offers auto linking along with a feature packed control panel. The users can display their own avatar on the chat box.

5. MyShoutBox

MyShoutBox.com provides hundred percent free chat box both for business and private use, its free shout box needs no programming/scripting knowledge to setup and use, along with simple HTML layout to save your bandwidth/resources. Their automated registration process takes only few seconds. This comes with several customizable templates along with spam protection. Hence most of the webmasters prefer this widget for their website.

6. Simple Ajax Shoutbox for WordPress

This free chat box script is a plug-in for add live chat functionality to a WordPress blog. It enables the WordPress users to chat with other visitors on your blog without refreshing the browser. This plugin is powered by Ajax and incorporates Google Maps, Gmail as well as other popular web apps.

7. Chatroll Live Chat

Chatroll Live Chat is another chat box plug-in for WordPress platform, and for other CMS platform with easy and flexible features. By installing plug-in you can add a chat box on your sidebar, posts and individual web pages. This chat box comes with an user friendly interface. You can customize this Chatroll Live Chat box as per your websites theme and color. This chat box is compatible with all types of web browsers, and supports iPhone, Android and other mobile devices too.

8. 123 Flash Chat

123 Flash Chat is very nice design chat box to make your website's chat room more attractive with Flash. Because it's Flash-based service, 123 Flash Chat also offers video chat feature. Additionally the users can use several font style, smilies, and backgrounds while chatting with different partners. It is also compatible with iPhone, iPad and other Flash-supported mobile devices.

9. Parachat

ParaChat.com chat room is very easy to install. If you are eager to install its script then you just need few seconds. This chat room can accommodate 100 users at a time. The installation doesn't require any registration or email address. Just enter your desired chat room name and the HTML code will be immediately shown. Now put the code on your webpage and the chat room is ready.

10. Gabbly

Through Gabbly.com's chat box, website visitors can instantly connect and discuss on any content, topic or interest. If anybody sends you spam messages then you can block the user. This chat box is easily customizable. Just specify your desired size of the chat window and mention the URL where you want it to be displayed. Then hit a button below to generate the code and place it in your website. The chat plug-in supports browsers like IE 6.0, Firefox 1.5.

Hope you like these chat box scripts/services I present, let check them out and let me know your feedbacks or suggest new free cool chat box scripts at here.

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Jit Mukherjii is a professional content writer offering all sorts of writing services including news writing, website writing. He has been writing for various publications in different countries for the past two years. He is an MBA by profession and is the recipient of the Brady Magazine Reader's Choice Award for best writing in the year 2007.

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