Popular post widget is a tool that give your readers a quick insight about what post that attract people attention when they’re browsing your blog. Adding this widget give your new visitor a chance and easy way to discover old popular post. You can set them to popular post all the time, this month, or this week.

Lucky for blogspot user, blogger has their official popular post widget. Follow this easy steps to add it:

1. As always, the first step is Log in to your blog dashboard.

2. Choose LayOut tab, and click on sidebar Add Gadget.

3. On basic gadget list, search for Popular Post. Click on + button to add it. Continue reading Let Visitor Dig Your Popular Post Through Widget. →

The recent post and recent comments widget is a tool to show your new visitor what’s currently happening with your blog without visit the home page. Blogger once had the official widget, but some glitch happened and I never see it on blogspot gadget list anymore.

So, that’s leave you to use 3rd party widget. I’m sure when you google it you will find plenty of post that answer your question. But, are they the safe?. As I mentioned on my post before, you need to careful when you adding 3rd party widget or JavaScript. Some of recent post & recent comments script has malware in it. It happened to me once. I don’t want the same experience happen to you as well, so I wrote this simple blogspot tutorial.

I’m not sure why not many blogspot blogger use this trick, but you actually can add recent post and recent comments with feed link. They will appear in text link. Even better cos google bot crawl faster in text link than image link. Just follow this blogspot tutorial for beginner below:

1. Log in to your dashboard, and choose LayOut tab. Continue reading Simple Trick Adding Recent Post & Recent Comments Gadget with Feed Link. →