Outbrain Post Rating Widget for Blogger

06. Aug, 2008 7 Comments


Today I am going to write about an interesting Post Rating widget developed by Outbrain.com . This Post Rating Widget is available for all blogging services like Wordpress.com , blogger , typepad , drupal , etc . A Similar Post rating widget is developed by draft.blogger.com and is found here at Star Rating Widget

Advantages of this Post rating Widget :

1. Know your readers opinion about the post

2. Drive More traffic ( Outbrain has a feature called Recommended Posts which is embedded within rating Widget , So outbrain users who have enabled this feature will show your post . )

3. We can also display Most Popular posts with this post Rating Widget.

How to Add This Widget to your Blogger Blog ?

It’s very simple . Visit http://www.outbrain.com and register an account ( to track traffic and details ). While registering , check this box (Yes – I want to install the outbrain widget and/or access my blog’s reports ) .

After this step , claim your blog by filling your blog Details and click continue. A new tab/ window will open and just choose your blog . outbrain will install the widget automatically.

Configuring Post Rating Widget

Sign-in to your Outbrain account and click manage Blogs tab on left side and then navigate to Setting sub-tab.

PostRatingWidgetCustomization Outbrain Post Rating Widget for Blogger

Now customize the widget to your wish. If you check ( Best Recommendations box ) you will get posts from other blogs below your Post Rating Widget like this .

PostRatingWidgetwithRecommendedPost Outbrain Post Rating Widget for Blogger

If you choose Most Popular Posts box then the widget will Most rated Posts above the rating Widget.

I hope I have given you much details on Adding this Outbrain Post rating Widget for blogger. If you have any problems let me know. Very soon I will post how to add this Outbrain Post rating Widget Manually , without registering Outbrain .

Thanks for reading………..

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I am Mohamed Rias , admin of Techieblogger.com. Basically I am Engineering student but still blogging is my passion. My areas of interest are HTML , CSS , Jquery , Javascript and PHP.

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7 Responses to “Outbrain Post Rating Widget for Blogger”

  1. TRESTIN MEACHAM Reply 16. Aug, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    Great help for me! I have been wanting to add star ratings to my blog for about two months now but could not get the blogger verion to work. This was easy and I think it works better. But, is there a way to change the star colors so it matches my blog better?

  2. Zubin Reply 14. Sep, 2008 at 3:01 am

    Thanks a lot..that was short and..fast..! :)

  3. Raymond Lee Reply 14. Sep, 2008 at 6:17 am

    yupe..thanks…i implement it again..:)

  4. Aasif chowdhury Reply 21. Oct, 2008 at 11:30 am

    good thanks

  5. savagepriest Reply 25. Nov, 2008 at 6:46 am

    good work :)

  6. Huge Anime Fan :) Reply 12. Jan, 2009 at 7:40 pm

    hey it doesn’t work on some of my blog………. the rating thing doesn’t show!!

  7. Mighty Heart Reply 08. May, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    hi i have a blog & i am useing "SCHEMER MAG" template plz. guide me how to add social bookmark & star rating in every post

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