I’m honored to be able to share another guest post from a fellow blogger, whom I’ve met through my networking efforts – Ciara from WebDesigners. She’s got a plethora of ideas and is an amazing resource for all of us up-and-coming bloggers to learn from. Read on to check out her tips on building your blog community with the use of these 5 blog widgets!
When Rachel asked me guest post here I was a little daunted, I hadn’t written a guest post before and couldn’t come up with any ideas. Then the other night I was lying in bed and had one of those lightbulb moments…5 posts came to me at once, and this one fit in perfectly with AverageGal.com, so here it is.
Top 5 Blog Widgets for increasing your comments and building your Blog Community
So, you have a blog, but do you have regular commentors? The best way to get regular commentors on your blog is to build up a community around your blog and encourage your readers to leave comments by giving them an incentive. These 5 widgets will help you to build up a community and give them an incentive to Comment.
No.1 – Twitter for WordPress
This ingenious widget lets you display your latest tweets on your Blog for your readers to see. Get more twitter followers with this widget and keep them coming back to your blog. Download Twitter for WordPress here
No. 2 – My BlogLog
The My BlogLog Widget shows pictures and details of your most recent visitors and links to their BlogLog. It also helps to build your community and allows your readers ease of access to be your social stalker. When you sign into MyBlogLog you can also get statistics from your site by installing some HTML code very easily. Get your My BlogLog community up and running and create your widget at http://www.mybloglog.com/.
No. 3 – Top Commentors Widget
Show off your regular commentors with this great widget. It gives your commentors a reason to comment on your site, the more they comment, the higher they get on the list. Personally, I love commenting on sites that have this installed, because I feel very important when I see my name on that list, and I make sure that I keep going back. Download the Top Commentors Widget here
No. 4 – CommentLuv
Entice your readers to leave a comment by giving them CommentLuv. This ingenious widget sources their latest post from their blog and add’s it’s title and a link to it for other readers to see. Everyone will want to leave comments on your blog with ComentLuv because it might just increase their traffic.Download CommentLuv here.
No. 5 – No Follow Free
The No Follow Free Widget allows your commentors links to be followed by Searchbots and therefore index their sites faster. Download it for free here.
All of these widgets are easy to install, either by installing some simple HTML or installing the download into your Wp-admin/wp-plugins folder and clicking the activate button.
Simple and fast, these easy steps are guaranteed to increase your Blogs Community and Comments. What are you still doing here? Go get them and start building!
If you have any trouble with these widgets contact me at http://wds.webdsignservers.com