10 Basic Services and Widgets which are Useful for Bloggers and Blog Beginners

 

Blogging is became a passion now a days. Thousands of blogs are publishing day by day. Most of the people are choosing blogging as their platform to earn money online. So every blogger needs some widgets to make their blog look effective, seo friendly and to make good relationship with their visitors. So now I’m sharing 10 basic widgets which are useful for bloggers and blog beginners.

 

1. Google webmaster tools and Google analytic for blog statics

 

Every blog owner wants to check their blog statistics daily. There are so many sites which offer blog statistics. But I found Google webmaster tools and Google analytics are the best among all.

 

Google webmaster tools

 

Google Webmasters Tool screenshot

 

This is used to adjust the crawling rate of your blog in Google. It helps a lot in SEO. You can customize your domain appearance in URL with Google webmaster tool as well. To register for Google webmaster tools, all you need is a Gmail account.

Create a Google webmaster tool account with your Google account and add your blog to it.

Click here to go to Google webmaster tools home page 

 

Google analytics

 

Analyse with Google analytics

 

According to my personal experience Google analytics is awesome for blog statistics. You can find daily visitors and total number of page views. You can find top keywords bringing visitors to your site from search engines. There are lots more with Google analytics. Register for Google analytics to experience all the features. You need a Google account to register for Google analytics.

Click here to go to Google Analytic home page

 

2. Trace online visitors at a particular time

 

trace your visitors in particular time

 

All the bloggers want to know how their blog is rocking every time. You can trace all the online visitors at a particular time using whos.amung.us.com.

Register in whos.amung.us.com and place the code in your blog. That’s all now you can Trace all the online visitors at every 1 hour.

Click here to go to whos.amung.us.com home page

 

The above graph indicates the total number of online visitors at a particular time

A indicates the total number of online visitors at a particular time

 

track online visitors

A Graph displaying the total number of readers on each page at a particular time

 

3. Check The copy rate of your content by the visitors of your blog

 

tynt

 

You can trace the copy activity of your visitors. You can trace all the content in your blog which is being copied by your visitors by using Tynt. It can also trace the social sharing rate of your copied blog content. It will automatically add a link to your blog/website in the copied content, when your visitors copy any of the content in your blog/website. So it can drive more and more traffic to your blog.

Click here to go to Tynt home page

 

4. Place some easy social sharing buttons

 

If you have posted some quality content in your blog, then your visitors may like that content and want to share it in social networking sites. So don’t make your visitors to feel hard to share your content. Place some easy social sharing buttons to make your visitors feel free to share your posts.

Sharethis.com offers many social sharing buttons. You may select your desired buttons and you can paste the code in your blog posts to make the visitors feel free to share your posts.

Click here to go to sharethis.com home page 

  

5. Add a Facebook like box of your Facebook fan page to your blog

Add facebook like box

 

Never leave your visitors. Keep updated with your blog visitors with your Facebook fan page. Add a Facebook like box to your blog to make your visitors to follow your blog with your Facebook fan page.

Click here to create a Facebook like box for your blog

 

6. Place a high quality mailing list to keep updated with your visitors

 

mailing list is important

 

Mailing list is the main strategy in bringing your visitors back. Never leave your visitors as the visitors are the kings to your blog. Place a mailing list subscription form to make your visitors easily subscribe for your mail updates. Most of the bloggers recommend Feed Burner. There are two more mailing lists which provide better mailing services. They are mailchimp and messagebot .

 

7.Place some effective profile badges of your Facebook, twitter, Google+, linked in accounts to make your visitors connected with you

 

Place some effective profile badges of your social networking site accounts like Facebook, twitter, Google+, LinkedIn etc to make your visitors connected with you, So that you can make your visitors updated with your blog.

Click here to add Facebook profile badge

Click here to add Google+ profile badge

Click here to add twitter profile badge

 

 8. Place an Alexa rank badge to view your Alexa rankings

How to improve alexa traffic rank

Alexa is the top website ranking service. All the SEO, page ranks will depend on Alexa rank only. So register in Alexa and place an Alexa rank badge to your blog to view your Alexa rank.

Click here to register in Alexa

 

9. Create a good contact form for visitors to drop any suggestions or complaints

 

Contact form is compulsory for every blog. Because if any of your visitors need your help then they will contact you using contact form. So build an effective contact form for your blog/website. For building a contact form I prefer Jotform

 

10. Create a good commenting system for your blog posts

 

Creating a good commenting system for blog posts will be helpful in building traffic and also building blog relationships. If there is a good commenting system for your blog then the visitors feel free to comment on your blog posts. Thus you may increase your blog relationship with your visitors. Some of the blog commenting services are Commentluv and Disquss

Hope the above mentioned widgets and services are useful for you to build your blog effectively and efficiently in order to have a better achievement as you expect  .

 

Srinath reddy, an engineering student, part time blogger and software developer from India. He is mainly post articles related to programming Tips , Tricks and Tutorials. He is posting his articles on his blog at blog CODERS HUNT. You can Follow Him on Facebook Here

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