How to add "you might like" widget in blogger?


You must have seen many blogs that has a list of post or thumbnails at bottom of their post which links back to older posts. This makes user stay on the page for longer time. Also it enables us to keep our older posts "live". So in this tutorial we are going to see how we can add that facility to blogger blog.

Following are the free services that lets you enable you might like option:

Linkwithin : Linkwithin provide you is one of the better options that helps you to enable "you might like". It can be easily added to blogger and starts displaying suggestions quite soon. Only problem with linkwithin is, even after you delete your post, link within keeps showing it and later it throws an error page. This leads to bad user experience. But as it is free it is widely used by many bloggers. Linkwithin at times displays thumbnails (if graphic is available in the post) or it may display list of posts.

Outbrain : Outbrain is quite similar to Linkwithin. It is also free. But outbrain may also display links to other web sites. And outbrain pays you per click. So it can be one of the ways to monetize your blog. However, I persoanlly have not yet tried this. Nor I would try as it would lead to draining of traffic from my blog. Adding outbrain to blogger is easy and quick but it takes some time to provide suggestions. Also unlike linkwithin, in case of Outbrain we need to decide in prior if we want thumbnails or list of post. 

Simple reach : This provides "you might like" box at right bottom of the page. See this page for example.

Manual list : This is the best way to retain and engage traffic. You can always add links to your older post with the title "related". This is help you to provide extremely relevant links as you have to decide yourself. I use this method on this blog and it works great for me.