How to Add Top Commentators Widget on Blogger?

Hi bloggy readers,
Top commentators widget is designed to show who have made the most comments on someone's blog. This top commentators widget contains the list of blogs (with the URL as well) in the ranking system that will appear on blog's homepage. So, if you make a lot of comments on someone's blog, your blog name, along with the URL address, will appear on the homepage.

Usually, many famous blogs will require people to pay a monthly fee if they want to advertise their blogs to those high traffic sites. Usually, they ask about $100 to $1000 in order to get their blog addresses placed on the homepage of those famous blogs. Obviously, that is so expensive whereas we have no cash to splash yet. That's why the only solution we have, is by posting lots of comments (not spam ones) on other people's blogs (that use top commentators widget) as many as possible to get our blog listed on their blogs without paying any single penny.

What are the benefits we can get from this top commentators widget?

Top commentators widget will give benefit for people, in this case, readers, to get a backlink directly from the homepage, which finally will enhance their Google Pagerank. That's why, by adding this top commentators widget, will also encourage visitors to leave more comments in order to get to the top position of the widget, which is good for promoting their blogs.

On the other side, by adding a top commentators widget in our blog, will finally encourage visitors to leave their comments as much as possible in our blog articles, which will increase the quality of our posts. Well, post that has lots of comments tends to be a great quality article, because its success in hooking the responses from readers.

Top commentators widget from YahooPipe

So, if you want to add this top commentators widget on your blog, here are the steps you need to apply. Anyway, credit goes to YahooPipe for providing such this awesome and powerful widget.

1. Log in to Blogger Account
Now it's time to begin the first step. Head on to Blogger.com and sign in to your account.

2. Go to Layout
In the Dashboard page, enter to the Layout/Design page, which will automatically bring you to the Page Element section.

3. Pick the place for the Top Commentator Widget
In the Page Element, now pick the best position for the placement of the top commentators widget.

4. Paste the script code of the Top Commentator Widget
Okay, after finding the best position of the top commentators widget, now press Add a Gadget on the area you've chosen, and opt to the HTML/Javascript. After that, paste the script code below to the widget box you've been presented.

As you can see in that code above, the red code that has been marked, must be modified using your own configurations. For example, the code www.whatmakesblog.com indicates the URL address of your blog.
And then, the code num=10 indicates the number of commentators that will be displayed on the widget.
And last but not least, the code filter=Daniel Likin indicates the author of blog that will not appear on the widget even if the author has made the most comments in his blog. So, if you don't want your own name to appear on that top commentator widget, you must filter your name in that code.

5. Save the Change
After finished modifying all the preferences on number 4, now press the save button to save the widget.

Hope this method to install top commentators widget works guys and let your visitors inundate your posts with their comments. LOL!!

Good luck Bloggers!