TOP 5: Must Have Free Blogger Plugins

Many people say that WordPress is far superior to Blogger in Many ways. I am going to tell you guys how you can bring your blog closer to WordPress, or in some cases, exceed WordPress.
I am going to share the most important 5 tips which will transform your Blogger Blogspot blog into a very professional, interactive, reader-friendly blog.

1. Choosing the Right Theme (Template).
Simply go to btemplates.com. You will find tons of cool and free templates that you can use for your blogs. I have written an entire article on How to choose a good and profitable Blogger Template and also an article on How to upload and take backup of your Blogger Template. I am sure you will find these articles very handy.

2. Share Widget
If you are a serious blogger, then you must have at least visited mashable.com once. There, you can see a very cool Social Media Interaction floating Widget which stays at the same location no matter how much the reader scrolls. This widget will help your readers to share your topics with their friends over social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc.

3. Comments Widget.
Well, the Bloggers’ comments management system really suck, and they are simply not ready to change. Ige don’t know why. That does not mean you cannot have a good Comments System. I have been using disqus.com for a year now, a nd I must say I am very happy with it, a nd now it’s also SEO friendly. If you have older blogger comments, you can simply migrate all of them to your new system.

4. Related Posts Widget
You must give your user the ability to find related topics on your blog. One way is to have a search box, but then the user will not prefer to go to the search box and then search for content, etc. It’s better that you give your reader 5 best choices to choose from. Linkwithin does exactly that. It gives your reader the best possible 5 related posts to your blog post topic, and you can make your reader stay on your website for a longer time and make them come back again and again.

5. Trending Topics Widget:
This widget is already available with blogger.com with a name called Popular Post. It simply finds the top post based on the most traffic received. To get your widget to update automatically with newer links, simply reduce the days to a week so that people see the most popular posts this week. It’s actually the posts trending this week. This will keep changing the links, and users will be exposed to new links every time they come.

Conclusion:
By using the right combination of free plugins—ranging from themes and social sharing to comments, related posts, and trending topics—you can transform a simple Blogger site into a professional, engaging, and WordPress-like platform. With these tools, your blog won’t just attract readers but also keep them coming back for more.