Monday, June 26

Add Related Posts Gadget To Blogger

Add Related Posts Gadget To Blogger

Related post gadgets uses your blog data to show similar posts matching the current topic. Increasing page-views and reducing bounce rate is a really a big problem for bloggers. Showing related posts has proven to be an effective way of getting more page-views. As visitor will only see the topics from his interest in related post gadget which increase the chances that visitor will not leave your blog after first post view.


AddThis provides multi tools for its user which are free to use and can be integrate within a minute. You don't need any coding skill with AddThis related post gadget. AddThis also provides easy customization option for there related post gadget. With AddThis you can integrate inline, slider and footer type related post gadget.

How to add AddThis related posts gadget to blogger ?

Step1: Go to AddThis and create your account.

Step2: After completing sign up you will see a list of tools you can add to your blog. Select Related Posts from the list.


Step3: Choose from the list which type of related post gadget you want to have. Slider gadget will popup after the user will scroll down , footer type will be displayed at the end of post and inline will shown where ever you paste the codes.


Step4: On next page setup title, color, orientation and dimension for your gadget.

Step5: Click on Save & Continue and copy the codes.

Step6: Now, go to Blogger > Theme > Edit html , Search for </body> using Ctrl+F and paste copied codes above it and save theme.

Step7 ( Additional step for inline type only ): There will be an additional step with codes for inline type related post gadget at AddThis , Copy and paste codes from AddThis step3 before <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> in blogger html.

Note: <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'>  may occur two times add below codes above it in both cases.