I think I have to disagree with some points here, Himoacs. 1.0 Recent visitors widget tell our visitors that we have other visitors besides him. This means he is not alone. It is also a good form of returning the favor to them as you are promoting them for free. However, I am only using one, from BlogCatalog. 2.0 FEEDJIT - Live Traffic. I do not have this, but I am using e-referrer which has almost the same function, knowing and sharing your source of traffic. I think one should NOT have this if his traffic is very low although it is old enough as this will only upset you and may also drive your visitors away. I think that it is good to have e-referrer widget right from the start of your blog. You and your visitors can easily see where your visitors are coming from. By doing this, you can also track which site, forum, social sites are giving you traffic and who's leading. 3.0 News from the blogosphere - I agree with you here. Why would someone lead his visitors away to other sites? If he wants to show his visitors about the latest news, why not write about it? 4.0 Chat box - I think this widget is for the young and for the chit chat blogs only so it depends on the blogger. 5.0 Technorati - How much is your blog worth? Fancy widgets like this are totally useless and will only make your blog slower to open. My addition: All the widgets that are above your posts that will make your readers scroll down the page first before they can read them.
nice post guardian angel..those are some good points you made...but i just don't like to show my readers that i am getting traffic...they should only care about the content and traffic shouldn't matter to them...and if we are using the widgets only for ourselves then Google Analytics takes care of it all...it shows how much traffic you are getting and where you are getting from. THis is great addition by you: "All the widgets that are above your posts that will make your readers scroll down the page first before they can read them."
Thanks for appreciating my post, Himoacs. I do not previously use this e-referrer widget but there was a point when I have to show proof to my readers that forum posting helps a lot to my blog.
For some condition is fine to use it ... but if u use it with a lot of other widget ... i think that's not wise option
feedjit is useless in my opinion...if we need to see the stats then we can just use GOogle Analytics. We don't need to put it up and show it to others.