Blogger Tips To Customize Popular Post Widget For SEO Benefits

Blogger Tips To customize popular post widget and make it more SEO Friendly for blogger blog.

Popular post widget is the special gadget in terms of Traffic,Page Rank ,Organic search results,SEO(Search engine optimization) and also for alexa rank.so this widget should be given special privilege .here is the code to give your popular post widget a multicolored look.Populatr post widget cutomization is necessary for blogger template because the default template popular post widget of blogger is less attractive and chances are less to be clicked so we need to give special attention by customizing the popular post widget.i received lots of email about "how to customize the popular widget" so here is a tool through which you will be enable to give a multicolored look to your blogger template.

SCREENSHOT OF CUSTOMIZED POPULAR POST WIDGET

customize popular post widget

""You can check out the sidebar for a live demo.""

INSTALLATION

• Go to Blogger Dashboard --> Template --> Edit HTML --> 
• Backup your Template (To upload previous template in case of  error)
• Expand Widget Templates
• Press Ctrl + F and search the code shown below
• Now Find the code shown below using [ctrl+F]
• ]]></b:skin>
•  Now Paste the Code Shown Below just above/before it

CODE STARTS

#PopularPosts1 ul li a:hover{color:#fff;text-decoration:none}
#PopularPosts1 ul li a {-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;  color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 40px 0px 0px; min-height: 30px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none !important; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;}
#PopularPosts1 ul li .item-thumbnail{float:left;border:0;margin-right:10px;background:transparent;padding:0;width:51px;height:51px}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child:after,
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li:after,
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li:after,
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li:after,
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li:after,
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li:after,
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li:after,
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li:after,
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li + li:after,
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li + li + li:after{position:absolute;top:10px;right:5px;border-radius:50%;border:2px solid #ccc;background:#353535;-webkit-box-shadow:0px 0px 5px #000;-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px #000;width:30px;height:30px;line-height:1em;text-align:center;font-size:28px;color:#fff}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li {background:#DF01D7;width:90%}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li:after{content:"8"}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li +li{background:#B041FF;width:90%}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li + li:after{content:"9"}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li +li +li{background:#F52887;width:90%}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li + li + li:after{content:"10"}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li +li{background:#7ee3c7;width:90%}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li:after{content:"6"}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li +li{background:#f6993d;width:90%}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li:after{content:"7"}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li{background:#33c9f7;width:90%}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li:after{content:"5"}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li{background:#c7f25f;width:90%}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li:after{content:"4"}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li{background:#ffde4c;width:90%}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li:after{content:"3"}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li{background:#ff764c; width:90%}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li:after{content:"2"}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child{background:#ff4c54 ;width:90%}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child:after{content:"1"}
#PopularPosts1 ul{margin:0;padding:0px 0;list-style-type:none}
#PopularPosts1 ul li{position:relative;margin:6px 0;border-radius:25px 0px 25px 0px;border:2px solid #f7f7f7;-webkit-box-shadow:3px 3px 3px #000;-moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #000;padding:10px}

•  Now save your template.
• Next steep is:-
• Go to Blogger Dashboard --> Layout --> Add a Gadget --> Popular Posts

Now you have to select  "display up to 9 posts" and please uncheck image thumbnail and snippet otherwise it will look ugly.
Now Save the widget .and your own customized popular post widget is ready.