Skribit is a new site with a fairly simple goal in mind - to help bloggers know which topics their visitors are interested in. They offer a small widget that, when embedded into a website, will allow visitors to describe in short what they want to read about. This way, a blog can easily concentrate on topics the visitors are interested in instead of wasting time and resources writing about stuff that users simply don’t want to see. All submitted topics are voted on on Skribit (they call this “What’s hoppin”).

Since the site is currently in beta, the widget, which is the core of the service, is unavailable to the general public but you can contact Skribit and ask to be informed about the public release of the widget. Skribit may prove to be very useful, both for the readers (content consumers) and webmasters. Kind of like analyzing search keywords the visitor used to come to your site and trying to guess the visitor’s intent from them, only this is easier because having gone through the widget, the intent is quite clear - they want to see content about this or that particular topic. I’ve signed-up to be contacted for the public release, and will give Skribit a try for sure. I am especially interested in seeing whether this kind of communication with blog readers is in line with other methods of website traffic and content demand analysis. If that indeed proves to be the case, than things will get so much easier.

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