I did a lot of research work to find out something unique for my blog and ended up with Etiole.
You can also add many widgets to your blog , but make sure not to add too many or else you will end up with a very slow loading blog or annoyed visitor who will see less of your content and more of your widgets.
Now if you are a fresh blogger and would like to start a new blog, free of cost my tip to you is to have a look at some of these Interesting cracks and hacks i found for blogger, my whole research.
1. Blogger expandable post summaries – Crack to show only few lines from the post on the homepage with the read more link leading to the complete post.
2. Recent Posts widget – This is a must if you want a good link structure of your blog with all of the pages interlinked to get a better pagerank.
3. Good Templates for your blog – Presentation matters much more than you content.
4. Tabbed view – To provide users a all in one widget which contains recent comments , recent additions and famous posts or any of your message.
5. Social Bookmarking widget after every post – Necessary to make posts popular via social networks.
6. Email Subscriptions – Best way to provide users information via directly attacking their inbox (you need to have a feedburner account ).
7. Flash Label Cloud – For showing Random labels so that readers are constantly engaged on your blog!
8. Intense Debate (comment application) – Much better tool for comments with features like rating the comments
9. Language Translator – You need it so that you can attract readers who do not understand English.
10. A custom search Engine – you need it so that you can display your results, the Google way and also make some money out of it via adsense.
11. A custom toolbar – You need a toolbar for your blog so that you can attract visitors and bring back visitors and this time you attact reader’s computer directly (meaningg you reach the reader’s computer directly)
12. Email a friend button – You need this because when you have a reader waiting to tell his friends about the content and he is note ready to loging back into his email account and……… he can directly do it from your blog.
13. Copy Protect – Stop fraud people from copy-pasting your written content into their blog.
14. Favicon for your blog – Add a classy favicon to your blog that says all about your blog.
15. Long post urls – Make sure your post urls and title contain keywords which your readers might be searching for on the search engines.
16. Author Signature – Add your signature to your blogs posts on your blog.
17. Widgetbox Widgets – Make your blogs widget and publicize it or add some of interesting widgets to your blog.
18. Add Background Music to your blog – Let your readers relax while they read your blog!
19. Shoutbox – Chat with online users directly on you blog.
20. Blogrush (for increased traffic) – The widget used to drive traffic to your blog by displaying your posts on other’s blogs and their posts on your blog.
21. Ajax feed widget ( dynamic feed content) – a mini version or more appropriate , a dynamic version of any feed you want to show.
22. Mobile version of your blog – Get a mobile edition of your blog so that you can even grip upon
readers via their mobile.
23. Forums – Make a post named forums with it’s title and the given code to make it a discussion board.
24. Recent Visitors , famous pages – Feedjit is a must to put information about your last ten visitors and even your most visited pages for that day.
25. Polls and surveys – Add polls and surveys widget by Poll daddy to get a better poll widget than the blogger original one.
