6 Best Widgets for Blog

Google Analytics:
This provides information about the visitors like their location, sites that referred to your site, number of page-views and unique visitors, average time spent on blog, etc. It is very essential for your site and can be used as a diagnostic tool for your blog’s performance. There is also a feature called goal conversion, which helps to identify a goal of the site and number of goals achieved per visitor. This widget cannot be used by wordpress.com blogs.

OutBrain.com
This site provides a widget for rating your article on the blog. It’s very helpful readers who can comment as well as rate your performance. One need not register with the site for getting this widget.

Addthis.com
Addthis button on the post helps in social networking, which at present is an essential tool for marketing. Drop down option of the button is the best as it gives the convenience of selecting the site to which one wants to book mark. Moreover with this widget in place there will be no need of put several icons of digg, stumbleupon, etc.

Bidvertiser:
This helps in increasing the revenue from the site on the basis of clicks on the ads from your site. The good thing about Bidvertiser is that its minimum payout is $10 compared to $100 of Google Adsense. So you don’t have to wait too much.

Entrecard:
This is the amalgamation of networking and advertising. Bloggers connect with each other through this network and place ads. You earn entrecard credits which you can later sell for cash.

Project Wonderful:
This is a new advertising platform especially for small bloggers. Advertisers bid for the space on the blog and the bid that wins is shown on the blog. The revenue depends on the number of pageviews. The higher the pageviews, the higher the bid amount your space will receive. It allows other ads also to be placed on the blog along with it.