Live chat on website to increase visits

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While looking for new ideas to get more visitors to my website I came across this website that provides a live chat so people can talk amongst themselves.

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I would be interested to know what the people on here would make of the pros and cons of this feature.

My website is geared towards sports betting so there are specific times when this could get extremely busy, specifically Saturday 3pm GMT and I think it would be a great feature to get people to come to my website to have a chat with people who have the same interest and possibly recommend my website to their friends, ect.

Any links on how to get this software, expense involved in running this, ect, would be appreciated.

 

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I think maybe a forum with a flash or ajax chat plugin might work, but both are very hard to get started. I had a chatroom on thecasinochat.com a few years back when I started it. Stats say most people don't really like to use chats anymore, with all the IMs and Social sites its really hard to get people to chat with strangers.

 

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The bandwidth is one issue but I am wondering if people would actually use it.