Blogging has never been so popular today and the need of spreading the news and your blog is getting popular these days, there are already many tools around there in promoting blogs and getting as much traffic as possible and one of the most popular tools are online/social bookmarking widgets and also help in the SERP.
Widgets work like displaying a particular post post/blog in a container that is related to your blog or topic, it is like an external link but it revolves around the blog/site with that particular widget, your site will post automatically to another site with the same widget depending on what community you are in or a member with.
These sites offer the most popular blog widgets today and most of all, they are free. (My preference).
1. Blogrush
Pros: This is one of the that dominate the widget market today, their services are good and generate good topic in terms of publishing blogs. It is easy to join and it is free. The blogs or links they generate are of good quality, It needs approval before it can be approved.
Cons: You cannot edit the widget layout, to few accessiblity to its fellow users, like communities, social bookmarkings. Few options to choose to promote in its members.
2. Blog Catalog
Pros: It is the most popular social networking site and widget today. Its growth is quite phenomenal. According to Alexa, BlogCatalog traffic has superseded Yahoo’s own MyBlogLog. BlogCatalog is currently ranked at 1,151 and an estimated to have 100,000 or more visitors. There are currently 73,000 blogs currently registered on BlogCatalog. It also has a PageRank of 7 which shows its authority on Google.
Cons: To many menus/buttons, confusing to beginners (sorry thats all I can say).
3. MyBlogLog
Pros: It is a social bookmarking that is getting popular fast and as result bought by google for 10 million dollars, It has a very good interface when it comes to customizing widgets and it is easy to use, a lot of traffic is also generated and has a lot of community to choose from
Cons: Its popularity is declining for unknown reasons, maybe the competition is getting rough or many are switching to other widgets, it is not as consistent as mentioned above. It is free but the features are not as full as the payed account.
Here you go, these are my list, there are still more out there and appearing in the web, it will help a lot in SEO your pages, just be careful in putting widgets as it may or sometimes affect the loading times of some blogs, but its still feasible if you want to have a high traffic in the blogosphere.
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