Adding Widgets, Add-Ons & tools to your blog is not just a lot of fun for your blog readers, but can also be very useful and help you to create a community for your blog or even a loyal reader base.
Here's a collection of best and most useful blog widgets or add-ons that can be easily integrated with any website/blog. All these below add-ons are 100% Free and they are very easy to install.
Outbrain Star Ratings Widget: Very eager to know what your readers think about your posts?
Here is a cool star rating widget by Outbrain. The insttallation is very simple,
just follow the step by step instructions on their site.
ShareThis or AddThis : Sharethis or Addthis social bookmarking
buttons makes it easy for your visitors to share your content with others. It is a good way to increase your link popularity and publicity. Their nice css dropdown icons reduces the clutter on your pages and eliminates the need to add a different button for each social bookmarking service.
whos.amung.us : This is a real time visitor tracking widget and displays

the number of people currently on your site and what pages they are
reading. You don't need any sign-up's to grab this widget.
Web2PDF Online : With this widget installed, your visitors can easily download

your articles in PDF format with just a click. The downloaded PDF's are
free of any advertising and you can get full access to download stats,etc.
ZOHO Creator: With Zoho Creator, you can create professional online

contact forms/web forums in minutes. The good things about this is
there are no data limits and readers can also upload attachments while
submitting the form.
Google Talk Badge: Google Talk Badge will let your visitors to

chat with you.The badge will active whenever you sign in to
Googletalk. The nice thing is your visitors can chat with you even
if they don't have a google account.
Yahoo Media Player: With this very useful widget, you can
easily add a simple media player to your blog which can auto detect mp3 links and create an embedded player. This tool is very useful for especially audio,music blogs.
Cbox: Cbox or Chatbox is a chat widget which can be easily embedded
in any web page. It is free and have many features including message
history, spam blocking,etc. It can be easily customizable to fit your
blog layout.
Google Translate: This widget lets your non-English speaking

visitors to quickly translate your webpage in their native
language with just a single click.








44 comments:
Another great widget that I use on my blog ( http://mydxf.blogspot.com ) is from feedjit.com . You can watch your blog traffic in real time.
I always like to see where everyone is coming from (links, etc...) :)
nice one
Thanks, blogger must have this widget.
Nice
thanks so much. very nice
nice post! this very usefull! thanks
Hello awesome blog you have here.Now what I'm about to say is not really going to be related to this post of yours but uhh can you tell me of how I can make 2 archives months automatically be displayed.Like I made my blog on Jan I guess and now it's Feb.So on the left side of my page it only shows Feb and not Jan.In order to see Jan you will have to click the "arrow-shape" thingy beside it and I don't want that, I want Jan to display my archives(posts) automatically too,so people won't have to click on the arrow on Jan to see the posts.
Even if this widgets are useful why you don't use it ?
nice widget collection. i'm using the 'addthis'and 'whos online' widget in my blog too. anyway thanks for sharing this stuff.
I have implemented the Star rating widget on http://www.managementaccountant.in/ Blog.
I have tweeted, stumbled your post as well.
Excellent post.
Regards,
Santosh Puthran
excellent post some great ideas
thanks
thanks...very useful!!!!!
thanks for 'gtalk' and 'yahoo media player ' .it's gr8
thanks for 'gtalk' n 'yahoo media player'. it's gr8 sir i really thankfull 2 u
Thank you for the information. Really Like the widgets that I have put in place. Now I have a question. I have two blogs how can I link then together so that people can get from one to the other, from what ever blog that they might be on. Sharing the traffic from both. Can I add a widget or something? Thank you in ahead of time. (If you could email me that would help)
Dan and Deanna "Marketing Unscrambled"
Great tips! I just added the whos.amung.us widget to my blog...thanks :)
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this post is ferry great. succes to you
already know some of this. thnk u so much!
I added the google translator a while ago to my blog, and now have the pleasure of knowing that (almost) anyone can enjoy my postings! Thanks for sharing!
Live Web stats provides the traffic of web pages and blogs, a variety of statistics and analytics to help webmasters analyse their traffic. Web Stats provides a wide range of choices on what to display on your Webpage or blog. It's quick and easy to join Web Stats with our 60 seconds sign-up.
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pls can you show me the technicality behind creating another web page from my blog? I mean if I place "RECENT POSTS", where will i put the recent post in order to navigate to them from my blog home page. Thanks, this blog has is been part of my life.
Hi degreat70,
Do you mean "How to add recent posts" widget to your blog ?
Yes pls that is what I mean. Thank You
thanks, very useful info I will return
Your site is wonderful. Many thanks for the all the tips.
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thanks so much :)
nice article
Hi! Is there a widget that would categorize blog posts in bloggers? Or a tag cloud similar to that of wordpress?
By the way, I'm using one of your blogger templates. I love it. Check it here
http://themissingpen.blogspot.com/
Great list! Thanks.
I wanted to let you know about three travel widgets that Tripbase.com has recently launched:
- Travel Cost Calculator
- Travel Weather Predictor
- Travel Picture of the Day
http://www.tripbase.com/travel-widgets.do
Cheers,
Sam.
I want to add a Social Bookmarking Button at the end of all my Blogspot Blog post. Would you please tell me how to do it?
thanks maan
Its great.I have added some widget which I was looking for.Thank you.
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I hv added your share button why it is showing 4 add on under my post?can you pls help?
my blog http://platinum068.blogspot.com
Cool thanks for the post
Thanks For Sharing such a nice and useful information.
Keep it UP.
Regards
Jenney MaC
grt
Nice Posts Thanks.
Still using your theme
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preety awsome..
Hey! Thanks, you reminded me about Google Translate which I should use since I tend to make friends in Asia and parts of Europe. I didn't know about Gmail Widget so I will try that one. I'm trying to find a widget that I thought was called Blogosphere but I guess not. Where my blog posts are shared on other widgets and vice versa.
Thanks!
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Can you please help me out I am using your funkyzine template can you please tell me where should I paste the code for "Add this" so that to include the button below each blog post.
very usefully information's... thanks...
nice blog but what zoho?
visit my blog i have made some changes reading ur blog.
how do i get widget for Recent Posts and Recent Comments
please let me know,thanks
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I made a friendly tutorial about on how to install Google translator for your blogs or website, anyways I thought it would help and drop here to share it, you may go to this link: How to add Google Translate Button on your Blog
cool thanks!