Tools for communicating with website visitors?

[contentmaster]

Are there any simple free tools that can be installed on a website - allowing the webmaster to chat with visitors who come the website in real time?

[wendy]

Try Live Chat at www.providesupport.com

you can invite web visitors for live chat, or visitors can request a live chat session. Not a free service, but at very reasonable price though. And you can see where your visitors are located at geographically, and which pages they are browsing right from your console.

[txbakers]

I also use one by xigla.com called Absolute Live Support which I really like.

There are many, though I don't know of a free one anywhere.

[jlr1001]

Take a look at Help Center Live (website at the obvious dotCom).

It's a free live help program written in php and distributed under the GNU general public license.

I'm currently testing it on a few sites, and thus far I don't have any complaints.

-jlr1001

[contentmaster]

thanks...I will check out all of these.