Blogging is very much popular now a days. It is a great way to publish whatever you like. But promoting a blog site & attract visitors attention is not so easy. You need several tools/widgets to make your site popular. After visiting various blog I have found few great tools/widgets which may help your site to become rich.
Entrecard
It's an amazing tool you can't believe. It is a an easy and free method to place your blog ad into other people website. Just visit www.entrecard.com and create your site 125x125 pixel ad. From the site copy a widget code & place into your site. Then approve few advertisers from your entrecard dashboard. You will get Entrecard Credit or EC for placing other people ads into your site. With this EC you can promote your site to other people blog. Visit the following link to learn more:
http://entrecard.com/page/guide
Digg Tool
Add a digg tool/widget with your each post. If your blog is created with blogger.com then place the following javascript code into your Template HTML before <data:post.body/>. Others can place this code by replacing <data:post.url/> with your post's url.
<div style="float:right; margin-left:10px;">
<script type="text/javascript">
digg_url="<data:post.url/>";
</script>
<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"/>
</div>
After posting an article click that tool to post it into digg.com
Recent Comments Widget
People like to view recent comments of the site to check if there is any comment posted after their comment. In the following link you will find a tool to generate javascript code for your blog. Copy the code and place into your site. Here you go:
http://blogger-templates.blogspot.com/2007/03/recent-comments.html
Shoutbox
Place a shoutbox where people can post comments, news or even chat easily. It refresh automatically after 60 seconds. Visit www.shoutmix.com and create a widget matching your site color.
Visitor Counters
Here are two cool free tools to check visitor numbers. First one is Branica Blog Counter - which count total hits of your blog. Another is Users Online - which shows numbers of visitors last 5 minutes.
These are tools/widgets I like most. Post your comments here and let me know which tools/widgets you like most. I will update this post based on your comments.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Essential tools for your blog
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I have found few more tools here:
http://www.quickonlinetips.com
It is true that adding more tools will make your blog loading slower. But I have found these tools very helpful for promoting my site.
After placing Entrecard & Digg I am getting much more visitors.
Visitor counters help me to check my site popularity.
Recent comments widget help me to check what is going on the site. It also help people to find posts that are not in the first page.
Shoutbox helps visitors to promote themselves & also they can chat with each other.
These are only my opinions. I want to know more from you. You can check your site load time from this site: www.webwait.com
how about statistic page, meaning showing your page rank, alexa rank and etc
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