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:
Adding Archive widget on blogspot is very useful for readers to dig your old post. You can arrange them by options how you want to display the archive.
And for Label widget is let visitor searching the post on the same category they currently reading, or their favorite category on your blog.
Those two are a must have blogspot widget. It can increase your blog page views, and adding them is very. Just follow the easy blogspot instruction for beginner below:
1. Log in to your blog dashboard, and Choose LayOut tab.
Before blogspot/blogger add contact form on their gadget list, user used to had 3rd party contact form like Kontactr. It’s so awesome blogspot/blogger makes improvement and finally listen to user demand. Adding contact form on your blog is very useful, specially if you re a designer, artist, or photographer and have your artwork display on your blog. It’s a great tool for people to reach you for networking or just want to say Hi.
Now, to add contact form gadget on blogspot is very easy for beginner. Just follow this simple tutorial below:
1. Log in to your blogger dashboard, and enter LayOut tab. Click on Add Gadget link. If your template have add gadget on footer, choose that area. I think best position to place contact form is on the footer area. Continue reading Adding Google Contact Form.→
In my post about 11 widgets you need to install on blogspot blog, I added Related Post widget on #3. Related widget is a powerful tool for readers to discover your old posts. If you write post in same topic or category, those posts will show up on the bottom of each post. They will display in text link or thumbnails, its all you choice.
There are several websites that offer you the service, some of them are free, required sign up, and some of them don’t. I always mix those choices, text link – thumbnail, and required sign up and not required sign up. Two of my favorite website are Linkwithin and Outbrain.
Adding them is very easy. In this post I’m gonna show you how to add these 2 websites tool on blogspot. Just follow the steps below: