Once you have several months of good content and a following you will see your blog increase traffic and start to recoup costs and start making money thanks to blog related ads. Added traffic through allows advertisers to see a return on their investment in your site which in turn creates further revenue streams. One of the best way to create added traffic is to use simple widgets to increase your users experience. While most bloggers prefer to keep their blogs as clutter free and minimalistic as possible there are several widgets that bloggers use on a regular basis.
One of the most common is the recent post widget this routinely shows the posts you have previously had on your web site and allows visitors to easily browse, click and access the corresponding post. This is a great tool to add more traffic to your web site. Each post a user views and reads allows more access to you advertisers ads.
Another great tool is the simple search widget. This allows the user to search through your posts to find the relative queries initiated by the user. This is another tool which allows you to encourage additional traffic to other web posts on your site.
Another widget in the same vein in the related posts widget which uses key words you use for your current post to access previous posts that the user may be interested in. The logic behind this is quite simple if the user is interested in the topic they will be more inclined to access a web post pertaining to the same topic.
While these are some of the most basic and simplistic widget additions you could make to your blog there are countless others ranging from timelines to wikiseek for searches on Wikipedia. The key is to make sure the widget you use are there to help your readers navigate your site and add not hinder their user experience.