Sidebar is an important section that may be in right or left side of your blog. It comprises
of different types of widget. Widget positioning and its type should be carefully select to give
most of your blogging. Hence we are talking about some essential widget for your sidebar.
Search Widget
It is in top of this list though it is very important on your blog and its top position in sidebar
is most recommended position. User can easily navigate to different articles
on your blog and it save their time in finding post.
Blogger team provided official search widget which can be easily install in sidebar with just a few click.
Get it from
Blogger Dashboard / Layout / Add a Gadget / Search Box.
Subscription Widget
It covers second position in sidebar and again it is the most important widget. It maintain
a strong bonding between readers and author by providing several subscription option in one widget.
It is also a solid proof of your great readership and you can show it off by displaying total
subscription count.
We have collection of different types of Subscription widget.
Popular Post Widget
It is the third widget of this list and as the name suggest it shows
your most viewed posts in descending order
means the post with maximum views will be at top position and rest one
will lie below it. It is available in gadget list and can be
add up to blog with 2-3 click.
Blogger team provide several customization option through which total
number of post shows, post thumbnail etc can be adjust.
Google Friend Connect
It is a cool widget but unfortunately it is supported only in Blogger
not in WordPress. If we talk about its feature it is an subscription
option provided
to readers which enables them to receive updates directly on Blogger
Dashboard. You can add this widget in same way as you add above widget.
Label Categories
It is the fifth widget of this list and its positioning may be last in
sidebar. It provide a way to reach a particular post.
You can use number label widget where an integer count is attached
after every category which shows total number of post of a particular
category or you can use
Label cloud.
Profile Widget
It is a the widget that shows a short information about the author of blog and contain social media connectivity.
Recent Comment Widget
It is last widget of this category and it shows a list based on the
total comments make by single reader. Officially Blogger doesn't provide
any widget but Feedburner allows you to add this widget instantly.
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