Blogs are all about content, but they’re also about engagement. The longer you can keep your reader on the page, the more invested he/she is in your blog. Blog widgets help do this by driving complementary content to your blog.
This blog post includes some of the best and useful blog widgets and tools that you must know as a blogger. List of widgets that are popular and widely used. Useful tools that will decrease your work time. Some basic services and then some services that analyzes your website for free.
This blog post includes some of the best and useful blog widgets and tools that you must know as a blogger. List of widgets that are popular and widely used. Useful tools that will decrease your work time. Some basic services and then some services that analyzes your website for free.
Useful Widgets
1. LinkWithin - One of the must have widget for your blog. This tool showcases your related post with your first image as thumbnail at the bottom of the blog. Very easy to setup, just connect your blogger account.
2. Feedjit - This blog widget tracks your site visitors and shows you how they entered your site, from which country they opened your site, time of their visit and many other details.
3. Click To Tweet - Now, you could share some part of your post to twitter with this awesome tool. Just add the tweet link after the statement you want to tweet. You may want your visitor to tweet any quote, stat or or any other important fact.
4. Polldaddy - Polldaddy lets you create polls for your visitors and add it to your website. You can customize your polls look with it's easy customization options.
5. Disqus - Very popular commenting blog widget to implement to your blog. Some of the most popular site uses disqus for their visitors comments.
6. Tynt - When someone copies your content, this tool adds your url attribution to the copied content. This tool has many more features, check their webpage.
7. RevolverMaps - A good blog widget that shows from where your visitors are coming in a revolving globe. Very easy to setup.
8. AddThis - The most popular social sharing widget for your blog. It provides a variety of different design and buttons to add to your blog.
9. IntenseDebate - A very nice commenting system. May be used to add commentLuv to blogger blogs. Go to the website, install it for blogger, then again go back to intensedebate.com and activate comment luv under plugins.
Useful Tools
1. Blog Crowds Html Parser - Want to add Adsense anywhere to your blog. You need this Html Parser to convert html to blogger template compatible xml. There are many other 3rd party widgets and advertising codes that you may need to convert.
2. Jsfiddle - This awesome tool helps you to preview the design behind your html css javascript code. It provides with an option to save your work and share it with others using link provided by jsfiddle. You can use this as showing demo of your work.
3. Ifttt - If This Then This. Most useful tool for your social sharing campaign. If "tweet" Then "facebook status update". If "linkedin status update" then "email". When you update your status at linkedin.com, it will automatically send an email to the account to specify. For bloggers- Just add your Rss feed, and add the accounts you want to automatically update like twitter, facebook, myspace and others.
4. Creative Commons Free Images - Want to add some image to your blog post but don't want to design it from scratch. Well, this is where these free images helps. You can use any of the images from this search engine and you don't need to worry about anything.
5. Awesome Screenshot - Share screenshots of any webpage with this easy awesome screenshot addon for your browser. You can easily select only some part of the page and save it to your desktop or share it in social networks.
6. PicMarkr - This adds a watermark to your images, so that no one reuse it or claim as their own. Nice tool to protect your hard work.
7. Splicd - With this tool you can add a youtube video to your page. Just tell splicd the starting and end time.
8. Just paste It - Want to share some text or images with your readers but don't want to add it in your blog. Well, we have a solution. Go to justpaste.it and enter your text and get a link.Just share the link, instead of the whole text.
Basic Tools
1. Google Analytics - Very popular website analytics service from google. You can track your visitors behavior (pageviews, visit duration, etc) and know which pages of your site are getting more traffic and from where it's coming.
2. Feedburner - This service is owned by google. It lets user share their posts to their feed subscribers without visiting the website. Know more about feeds and feedburner.
3. Google Keyword Tool - Before you decide your post title, you should take a look at how many people search the keyword you are using in your post title.
4. Ping-o-matic - This tells all the major search engine that you have updated your blog. Just enter your blog name and address and it will do the rest.
5. Alexa - Want to know how your website is performing in comparison to your competitors, this is a must known webtool. It shows rank of all the website that gets at least 20-30 visitors daily. You can also add the widget of alexa to show your rank on your website.
Analyzing Tools
1. WebsiteGrader - As the name suggests it grades your website and gives suggestions on how to improve it. Checks your social reach, navigation, search engine optimization, frequency of your posting. You must try it, it's absolutely free.
2. Seo Browser - See how search engine sees your blog. Another service that google recommends is lynch browser. However, seo-browser is much more user friendly than lynch browser.
3. Screenfly - When you add a template to your blog, the first thing you should do is checking the how it looks in different screen resolutions. Some templates are not able to adjust to different screen resolutions and looks really bad in high resolution.
4. Copyscape - With this you can easily find who is copying your content. Enter your page url and it will search if anyone has copied your content and how much of the text is copied.
5. Seo Blogger Tool - Very good tool that lets you do a keyword research without leaving your blog editor. Download this firefox extension for free.
6. Xenu Link Slueth (offline) - Download Xenu and Check for broken links in your webpage. W3.org Checker (online) - Check for broken links online easily.
7. HowToGoMo - See how your blog looks in a smartphone. Easy webtool to test your sites mobile compatibility.
8. Google Pagerank Checker - Check your authentic google pagerank with this. Also you can add this as a blog widget.
9. Backlink Watch - Want to know who links to your blog, this service lists all the backlinks you have with the blogpage that linked to you.
10. Woorank - Another good tool to get your website statics for free.
11. Pingdom Tool - Know how fast your website loads with pingdom page speed checker and optimize your site for slow internet connection visitors.
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