You see widgets everywhere these days. When people get into blogging the first thing they do is fill up their sidebar with junk that they don’t need, and in the end it just slows your website down and makes it look a mess. I have myself done these things and will probably still do them in the future… But some of you can learn from my mistakes.

On the other hand you will also find many widgets that are very good and will really improve your blogging for you and your readers.

I will list some of the worst and best widgets and what they can do (Or not) for your blog or website.

Worst:

• Games and Cyber Pets.
  These will just slow your website down. I see many people using the cyber pets these days and the truth be told I was at one point going to use one. Luckily my brain kicked in and I realised it would just slow everything down and take up so much space. Games also take forever to load. It is OK to use them if you have a page for them and make sure it is tagged so people know it will take forever to load.
• Spottt
  This is just a rip-off from Entrecard but is a much more simple version. It has no settings that give you any control and you will very rarely get any clicks to your blog. I used it for around one week and got under 10 click backs after giving thousands of impressions. The stats are none existent and you never know what will appear on your site. If you want this type of widget use Entrecard. Read more »