blog widgets

Also known as gadgets, badges, plug-ins, snippets, and modules, blog widgets are an embeddable portion of code for blogging platforms that can enhance functionality and usability by encouraging readers to stay longer and return for updated content. Once the code is successfully embedded, widgets help retain reader interest by providing fresh site content automatically.

Programming knowledge is not required. Generally, a third party prepares the code which can then be customized and applied by copy and paste. Content can also be user created with or without outside assistance.

Popular blog widgets and reviews can be found at Gigya, Widgetbox, Widgets Lab, and Mashable.

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• Furry Travelers: devoted to pets’ travel comfort & safety

  
  PawFun — Authority: 139
  So many people are taking their dogs and cats on trips and vacations that there’s now a website devoted entirely to products that help to keep traveling pets safe and comfortable. From food and water travel bowls to doggie booster seats and harnesses, Furry Traveler has compiled a wide variety of products that look ...
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• HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

  
  Kissing Suzy Kolber — Authority: 137
  The Eagles and Cowboys meet with NFC East primacy on the line. Just weeks ago, the Iggles lost to the Raiders and the Cowboys had to squeak by the Chiefs. Now suddenly, they’re teams of consequence once more. It’s key for Dallas to build as large a division lead as possible before December sets in and they lose ...
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• Findbook.TW Book Search

  
  Firefox extensions, Opera plugins, Internet Explorer toolbars, Yahoo widgets @ 4Browser.com — Authority: 146
  Findbook.TW Book Search is a widget for Yahoo Widgets. With the aid of the given widget you will be able to find books in Taiwan easily and quickly. The widget makes search in popular web sites in Taiwan and will allow you to purchase the book you like at the least price. The widget has a nice-looking design and plain ...
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• Cyrus Webb Presents Vickie Winans and DeWayne Woods - Nov 09,2009

  
  "Conversations LIVE!" with C. A. Webb | Blog Talk Radio Feed — Authority: 131
  Cyrus Webb of Conversations LIVE! Radio welcomes recording artists Vickie Winans and DeWayne Woods to talk about their amazing careers.At 45 minutes past the hour he will welcome Herschel Dixon for this weeks "Weekly Sports Wrap-Up". cyrus webb herscel dixon | dewayne woods cyrus webb | cyrus webb ...
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• A Weblog Is The Perfect Content Management System

  
  Website Marketing Skills For Small Businesses — Authority: 132
  Each day blogs are made by all types of individuals, but teenage writers are the most progressive in the craze. Today’s teens are the 1st generation of individuals to have grown up using the internet at every stage of their developing. As a result, numerous adolescents have an virtually established sense of how to ...
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• Good News for College Grad Employment

  
  Curran Career Consulting Curran Career Consulting — Authority: 103
  The latest government ( BLS ) unemployment statistics for October, 2009, were accompanied by a collective national groan. Across all populations, the average unemployment rate rose to a high of 10.2%–up four tenths of a percent from September, 2009, and 54% higher than a year ago. But unemployment woes have not ...
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• Shopeei Widget

  
  Firefox extensions, Opera plugins, Internet Explorer toolbars, Yahoo widgets @ 4Browser.com — Authority: 146
  Shopeei Widget is another widget for Yahoo Widgets. With the aid of this widget you can conveniently search for goods on Shopeei.com web site. The web site has a lot of goods sold by gross. The widget and web site will be helpful to all wholesale buyers, purchasing goods in large numbers. The widget is very simple and ...
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• Live blog: Lions searching for win No. 2 - Detroit Free Press

  
  Make Your Blog Better — Authority: 116
  Live blog : Lions searching for win No. 2 Detroit Free Press Free Press special writer Nick Meyer is live-blogging todays Lions-Seahawks game. Per NFL rules, Nick may not be in the stadium while blogging. ...
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• FCB Top 25 for the CBSSports.com BlogPoll

  
  Fantasy College Blitz — Authority: 435
  Show of hands… One loss GT QB Josh Nesbitt scores in OT (Icon SMI) Who thought Iowa would go unblemished for the entire season? Who was shocked when Georgia Tech went for 4th and 1 in OT, down 3 points and on the Wake 6? Who was ready to kick Houston out of their top 25 when they trailed Tulsa late in the ...
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• HALT: NZXR: Trading Halt of Securities Lifted (ShareChat)

  
  Make Your Blog Better — Authority: 116
  Dont know the stock code? Search by keyword: “I was only $10m off the mark. In an earlier blog I estimated, after trawling through 40 or so sets of accounts, that KiwiSaver providers had charged a collective $26m for their efforts in the 12 months to the end of March this year.
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• Blog of the Week: Invisible Bees

  
  Studio G - Garden Design & Landscape Design inspiration — Authority: 128
  I have had a very busy weekend and subsequently haven’t had a moment to post.  Lots of big events wrapped up over the last couple days, so I have begun to focus in the next big thing in my life; a holiday trip to southern California.  We will visit with my husbands’ family as well as my own as they will be ...
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• The album title says it all

  
  Beep! Beep! Back up the Truck — Authority: 106
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• Win free tickets to last GWU home football game of the season (The Shelby Star)

  
  Make Your Blog Better — Authority: 116
  Click here to go to the Emilys Free Stuff blog for ticket details.
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• If Blogs Are Free, Are They Worthless? Another Contribution. Thank you.

  
  The Wild Wild East Dailies — Authority: 115
  My recent post, encouraging contributions to the Wild Wild East Dailies kicked up a discussion over at RCNevadas "My View Of The World" on the order of whether a blog is a real product and whether people should pay money for them. RCs comments go like this: The basic argument comes down to the fact ...
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• 5 Things I’ve Learned since Starting BrushPortfolio.com

  
  Free Photoshop brushes | BrushPortfolio.com — Authority: 91
  1. Don’t set up your blog as a sub directory This one should be pretty obvious, but when I started this website I didn’t know. I didn’t know it was a totally stupid idea to host the site as a sub directory of our main site (i.e. www.libertiny.com/brushportfolio). I do now! BrushPortfolio.com is my great ...
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• Photos: COTNE Jam Session

  
  AnmlHse Blog — Authority: 425
  Last night I headed to a Jam Session put together by the fam over at Children of the New Era . They are a newly formed organization responsible for showcasing and exposing artists to the Philadelphia area. Their first event last night they were able to bring out poets and artists of all genres from the local area and ...
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• Warning: iPhone worm starts RickRolling

  
  Davey Winder — Authority: 515
  It was inevitable that the iPhone would eventually fall victim to the bad guys, and that inevitability has been realised as users of Jailbroken iPhones are starting to report being infected with an iRickRolling worm. The ‘ikee’ worm was first spotted over the weekend in Australia, with users posting to online ...
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• Car Birthday Party Theme

  
  Party Planning Tips, Hostessing, Entertaining for Birthdays | Thoughtfully Simple — Authority: 416
  Vroom! Vroom! Check out this fun car birthday party theme - your little one will love it! Here are a few different car party invitations to set the party mood: Your guests will want to race to your party after receiving these car themed invitations. HONK! toy car print , vroom vroom parked cars or the speed ...
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• New Blog Spotlights Latest ‘Hotlanta’ Happenings, Trends - WSBtv.com

  
  Make Your Blog Better — Authority: 116
  New Blog Spotlights Latest Hotlanta Happenings, Trends WSBtv.com If youre in search of the latest in fashion, music, art and nightlife, theres a new place thatll keep you clicking back for more. ...
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• Lassoing The Cowboy Myth

  
  Indoor Street Art by Paul Baines — Authority: 118
  Matt Straub is well known for his use of mythologised cowboy iconography in his paintings. His style strides both pop art and abstract expressionism , his intent to deconstruct the idealised nostalgia associated with Americas gun-slinging past, appropriating metaphor for his treatise on a fragile future and its ...
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