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Sep222008
12 Must-Have Blog Widgets - Attention Bloggers!
Monday, September 22, 2008 at 3:43PM
A few of us at Widgetbox spent the weekend in Las Vegas at BlogWorld Expo (more to come on why!); and after interact with hundreds of bloggers, I thought it would be useful to showcase twelve of our best blog widgets - designed for bloggers and by bloggers!
Must Haves
If you have a blog, these three widgets are necessary additions to your blog's template. Each widget is customizable, showcases your content and drives traffic back to your blog!
The Blidget
Making a blidget is simple: enter your blog's URL, customize and embed! Widgetbox has served over 1.5 billion blidgets:
The Blog Badge
Use your blog to build your brand and promote your content on other internet sites such as Digg, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.
Widgetbox Blog Network: Channel Widgets
Widgetbox launched the Widgetbox Blog Network last week with 29 channels of blog categories. Pick your channel, add the widget to your blog template and your blog posts will be featured across other blogs in your channel.
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Content Additions
Surround your blog posts with other relevant, interesting content around the web:
Twitter Badge
Skype Me Button
RSS Feed Scroller
Digg Ticker
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Social Sharing
You spend time writing on your blog... use these widgets to submit your content to social websites that will share your blog with 1,000s of users:
Social Sharing Badge
Digg This
Facebook Share
StumbleUpon
Must Haves
If you have a blog, these three widgets are necessary additions to your blog's template. Each widget is customizable, showcases your content and drives traffic back to your blog!
The Blidget
Making a blidget is simple: enter your blog's URL, customize and embed! Widgetbox has served over 1.5 billion blidgets:
The Blog Badge
Use your blog to build your brand and promote your content on other internet sites such as Digg, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.
Widgetbox Blog Network: Channel Widgets
Widgetbox launched the Widgetbox Blog Network last week with 29 channels of blog categories. Pick your channel, add the widget to your blog template and your blog posts will be featured across other blogs in your channel.
_
Content Additions
Surround your blog posts with other relevant, interesting content around the web:
Twitter Badge
Skype Me Button
RSS Feed Scroller
Digg Ticker
_
Social Sharing
You spend time writing on your blog... use these widgets to submit your content to social websites that will share your blog with 1,000s of users:
Social Sharing Badge
Digg This
Facebook Share
StumbleUpon

Reader Comments (14)
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You can also give a try to sociofluid widget. It adds social bookmarking buttons to blogs with a nice animation effect. The widget is available at http://www.sociofluid.com">http://www.sociofluid.com
Great news. Will embed the top 3 widgets on one of our blogs.
Great post ! Thanks for the tips. I would try them out. Thanks for the useful information and links.
nice article! nice site. you're in my rss feed now ;-)
keep it up
Widget Box has made our blogging so easy by offering different channels of communication.. We can easily choose a related channel of our interest and post blog there.. Using these widgets is really one of the nicest ways to socialize your blogs and get connected to thousands of people instantly without getting indulge into various uncounted problems..
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Excellent post. I'll seriously consider adding some of these widgets to my blog.
What I can say is very nice and helpful as well as informative post...really help me very much more!! Thanks..
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Great post. I also like the Top Incoming Links widget from See. Link. Run. It tracks and displays the top incoming links (by how many visitors they refer) to your blog, and can add credibility and usefulness to your pages. http://www.seelinkrun%2Ccom/widgets/TopIncomingLinksWidget" rel="nofollow">http://www.seelinkrun,com/widgets/TopIncomingLi...
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This is cool I can use this at my blog...
thanks.
Very valuable post specially for those novice bloggers like me.Thank you so much.I will definitely add these widgets to my blog.