Related Posts For Blogger Using LinkWithin

Displaying related posts near to the main stories are very common among professional Blogs. It will attract your readers to dig more in to your blog to read similar stories. More digs means more page views. I'm pretty sure that you all love it. You will be able to find these widgets on some of the blogger templates. But LinkWithin related post widget is way more different than the others.

LinkWithin related post widget retrieve and index all stories from your blog archive, not just recent stories, then display them under each post with photo thumbnails. It's really easy to implement on your current blog and it does not requires any sign-ups. This widget is minimally styled (Black or white is the only options available) and blends in with your site design.



How to place this widget on your blog

You need to visit LinkWithin website to grab this widget. Fill the information on right hand side of the page and click the Get Widget button. It supports few main blogging platforms including blogger.

If you are using a simple blogger template just Install Widget button. It will automatically placed under blog posts. If not go to the blogger dashboard click the layout button and you can move the newly added HTML / Java Script box.



If you are a advance user select other from the platform drop down. This will show you the Java Script code and you can copy paste it where ever you like.

Wufoo - Easy form Builder

Wufoo is the easiest way to collect information over the Internet. Their HTML form builder helps you create contact forms, online surveys, and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without writing a single line of code. Best thing is you can create 3 forms for free.




Wufoo supports

• Standard Fields

• Fancy Pants Fields

• Entries

• Themes and Customization

• Notifications

• Security

• Web Site Integration

• Payment Integration

• Reports

Create your free forum using this link

Star Rating Widget

If you like to make your blog more interactive with your readers try to implement a content rating system for your post. Know what your readers think about your posts. Outbrain is a very good web site that provide good Star rating widget for your web site or blog.



So What's so special about this widget ? The widget is available in many languages. so it will be perfect for any sort of readers across the world. It supports all the major blogger platforms such as Blogger, Wordpress and Typepad. The best thing about this star rating widget is you won't see an outbrain logo or marketing language such as "Powered by outbrain" on the widget itself. So it's blends into your blog design perfectly.



So visit Outbrain web site today and get your star rating widget now.

CBOX

Cbox is a unique chat widget that combines the best features of regular chat and tagging systems into one ideal solution. And the best part is Cbox Basic version is completely free for everyone.

Some of unique features in Cbox

• Message history
• Customizable
• Secure
• Easy to use

Get your own Cbox from here

Widgetbox

Web widgets are portable chunks of the Web that can be easily embedded into a web page. Use them to get news, information, entertainment, decoration, or whatever else you can think of for your blog, profile page, personal home page, or web site.

Widgetbox widgets have been on hundreds of thousands of websites. And, best of all, Widgetbox is free! So grab some widgets for your site now.



Visit Widgetbox website from here

Entrecard - Instant Free Traffic

Are you disappointed about the traffic that coming to your Blog ? Do you like to get free reliable traffic to your blog ? Then you should try "Entrecard"

Entrecard is a free blogging network that truly brings visitors to your blog. By joining to their network, you can earn Entrecard credits which allows you to display an ad of your blog on other blog sites within their Network.



If you like it, visit Entrecard website and register. Download their official Ebook from the website or from here. Read it well. It has all the steps explained real nicely. But for people who don't have time to read it i'll explain the basic steps.

1) Placing the Widget on your blog.

2) Earn your Entrecard Credits by clicking the Drop button on others Entrecard widgets.

3) Purchase advertisements from your Entrecard Credits. (It will display your Entrecard on other blogs that you have purchase)

Te!! a Friend - Bookmark & Sharing Button

Tell a Friend is a nice little button that can be added to your website or blog. What this button does is it's going to allow you to bookmark and share your articles with more than 40 online services available at the present. Most important thing is you really don't need much technical expertise to use it on your blog.


Here are few more facts about this nice gadget.

• Implement in minutes


• Versatile embedding


• Highly customizable


• Light, speedy and compact


• Sharing goes beyond bookmarking


• Over a 40 services through which you can reach out to friends


• Analytics to monitor activity


• Addressing privacy concerns

Get your Te!! a Friend button from here

Flash Animated Label Cloud

Originally this was for Wordpress only. But now you can use it on Blogger blogs too. Installing this in your Blogger layout is surprisingly simple!

Go to Layout -> Edit HTML in your Blogger dashboard, and search for the following line or similar. You may need to expand your widgets in order to see this line.

<b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Labels' type='Label'>

Immediatly after this line, paste the following section of code.

<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:title'>
<h2><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<script src='http://halotemplates.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-cumulus-example/swfobject.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<div id='flashcontent'>Blogumulus by <a href='http://www.roytanck.com/'>Roy Tanck</a> and <a href='http://www.bloggerbuster.com'>Amanda Fazani</a></div>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var so = new SWFObject(&quot;http://halotemplates.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-cumulus-example/tagcloud.swf&quot;, &quot;tagcloud&quot;, &quot;240&quot;, &quot;300&quot;, &quot;7&quot;, &quot;#ffffff&quot;);
// uncomment next line to enable transparency
//so.addParam(&quot;wmode&quot;, &quot;transparent&quot;);
so.addVariable(&quot;tcolor&quot;, &quot;0x333333&quot;);
so.addVariable(&quot;mode&quot;, &quot;tags&quot;);
so.addVariable(&quot;distr&quot;, &quot;true&quot;);
so.addVariable(&quot;tspeed&quot;, &quot;100&quot;);
so.addVariable(&quot;tagcloud&quot;, &quot;<tags><b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'><a expr:href='data:label.url' style='12'><data:label.name/></a></b:loop></tags>&quot;);
so.addParam(&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot;, &quot;always&quot;);
so.write(&quot;flashcontent&quot;);
</script>
<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</div>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

Then preview your template. If installed correctly, you should see the tag cloud appear in your sidebar. Then you are free to save your template.

[Full credit goes to Roy Tanck who invented WP Cumulus plugin for Wordpress & For the post made by Amanda to the Blogger Buster about the "Blogumus"]

How to setup Blogger Tag Cloud / Label Cloud

Here is the code and setup information to use the Label Cloud in New Blogger. First you obviously have to have a blog on New Blogger, and you MUST be using the layouts templates,this isn't available for classic templates, or FTP published blogs and you must have some posts labeled already. There needs to be at least ONE label with more than ONE entry or the scripts hit a bug - so have at least one label with more than one entry before starting.