There are many useful widgets and scripts which you could use to add interactivity to your Blogger powered blog. Ranging from lists of your most popular posts to a table of contents which loads above your posts, this article contains 20 of the most useful widgets and scripts you could install own blogs.

Easy Install Widgets

All of the widgets int his section can be added easily to your blog using widget installers.

Recent Posts

This widget will display a list of your most recent posts, with links to their relevant pages. This widget…

Social bookmarking services are a useful way to aggregate your content across the web and bring more awareness to your blog. Services such as Digg, Stumbleupon and Del.icio.us allow readers to bookmark posts of interest and offer a means for others to discover them too. In this post, I’ll explain how you can add bookmarking links to three popular social bookmarking sites beneath each of your posts in Blogger.

One of the best ways to encourage visitors to bookmark your best posts with these services is to add links to these…

Since Blogger introduced “In Draft” last year, we have seen a steady trickle of new features emerge in beta format, ready for testing before they are released for general use. Over the past few weeks, though, we have seen some particularly useful features which will soon be integrated into the main Blogger interface. Lets take a look at what Blogger users can expect to be using in the near future.

Blogger Gadgets

Many of you will already be familiar with Google Gadgets. Well finally Blogger have decided that full integration of Google’s…

“Content is king” has become a blogging mantra: if you develop great, unique content you should also be able to gain a wide readership for your work.

But then you only get one change to make a good first impression. If your blog’s appearance doesn’t stick in the mind of the casual visitor, how can you be sure they will remember what you have written?

One of the great criticisms of Blogger powered blogs is that so many of them look the same. There are only 16 default Blogger templates available…

One of the great things about Blogger is that we have access to the complete template. With a few simple tweaks Blogger users can easily optimize their blog template to achieve better rankings in search engines, which in the long run can attract far more visitors to our blogs.

This is the third and final installment of the SEO Tips for Blogger Templates series. In Part 1, I explained how the header section, meta tags and titles could be adapted for search engine spiders, while Part 2 dealt with optimizing all of…