I wrote about a popular posts widget not too long ago. Unfortunately that widget disappeared and stopped working. So I then wrote an update to that post, the most popular posts widget update which unfortunately no longer works for most of the widgets I had included in that post. I have though found some other widgets that indeed do work to display your most popular posts, regardless of what blogging platform you do use.

Most Popular Posts Widgets

PostsRank - Is a relatively new widget that analyzes much of your blog and uses a complex algorithm or score to rank and order your blog posts in order of popularity based on the interaction with the post from your readers (Comments, social bookmarking, page views etc.). It is a widget that sits in your sidebar, and gives you the full ability to customize the look of, so that it meshes with your blogs theme and feel.

The above is how this popular widget could look in your blog. Each page within your blog is given a number or rank according to the algorithm and then ranked accordingly with the best ranked pages showing up in the widget window.

If you look at the bottom of the above picture, you will notice that this widget has an orange RSS icon in the lower right hand corner of the widget. This is also a button you can click on.

This button allows visitors to subscribe to your most popular posts as a feed, as is seen in the following picture. And includes the ability to filter topics.

PostRank on their website, claim that this widget can:

Increase your readership by increasing the value of your archives
Maxamize your revenue by engaging your readers to stay longer, view more pages and click on more links, leading to more opportunity to make money with advert impressions.
Older content within your blog stays visible and relevant alongside your newer, fresher posts.

This widget for ranking your blog posts in order of popularity seems to be yet another way one can go about it, and it is quite easy to install on most blog platforms. If you have not tested this widget out, perhaps now might be a good time?

Another Possible Popular Posts Widget

Another Widget candidate for popular posts is the Feedjit widget.
This widget I am sure you have seen on many other blogs or perhaps you have seen their location widgets. It ranks all your blog posts according to the traffic they have received on that specific day or 24 hour period. The pages are then broken down into a percentage based score with the page receiving the highest percentage of views coming in first. And then so on down the list. This widget shows your posts and their popularity only for the last 24 hours. So it is constantly updating and changing.