Professional Blogging Tip: Related Posts Widget For Blogger

Do you want to Increase Your page views for your Blog day by day?


A relatively easy method of increasing page views on your blog is to add a list of related posts below each article (Post). This offers readers a ready-made reading list of other articles on your blog, which are of a very similar to your reading post or subject . 

How to add/install related posts widget to you blog in 3 steps? 

 Related posts widget appear just below your posts and allow your visitors to navigate through similar posts from your blog. This is also a method to get more page views and keep your visitor on your site for a longer period of time. To do so..

Follow these Three steps below to install related posts widget to your  Blogger blog.

Step 1 :

Log in to Blogger, go to Template > Edit HTML and tick the "Expand Widget Templates" checkbox.

Step 2 :

Now find (CTRL+F) this in the code:

</head>

And paste the following code before/above it.

<!--Related Post Widget Starts--> <style> #related-posts { float : left; width : 480px; margin-top:20px; margin-left : 5px; margin-bottom:20px; font : 11px Verdana; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom:10px; } #related-posts .widget { list-style-type : none; margin : 5px 0 5px 0; padding : 0; } #related-posts .widget h2, #related-posts h2 { font-size : 20px; font-weight: bold; margin : 5px 7px 0; padding : 0 0 5px; } #related-posts a { text-decoration : none; } #related-posts a:hover { text-decoration : none; } #related-posts ul { border : medium none; margin : 10px; padding : 0; } #related-posts ul li { display : block; background : url(&quot;http://www.webaholic.co.in/other/bw.png&quot;) no-repeat 0 0; margin : 0; padding-top : 0; padding-right : 0; padding-bottom : 1px; padding-left : 21px; margin-bottom : 5px; line-height : 2em; border-bottom:1px dotted #cccccc; } </style> <script src= http://www.tekadda.com/2013/02/professional-blogging-tip-related-posts.html' type='text/javascript'/> <!--Related Post Widget Ends-->

 

Step 3 :

Now search for

<data:post.body/>

And paste the following code below/after it.

Then Save the template.

 

<!--Related Post Widget Starts--> <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'> <div id='related-posts'> <font face='Arial' size='3'><b>Related Posts : </b></font><font color='#FFFFFF'><b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'><data:label.name/><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != &quot;true&quot;'>,</b:if><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'> <script expr:src='&quot;/feeds/posts/default/-/&quot; + data:label.name + &quot;?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=related_results_labels&amp;max-results=5&quot;' type='text/javascript'/></b:if></b:loop> </font> <script type='text/javascript'> removeRelatedDuplicates(); printRelatedLabels(); </script> </div></b:if> <!--Related Post Widget Ends-->

  

Note: In order to change the number of maximum related posts being displayed for each label, search for the code (max-results=5) and change the number "5" to any desired number.