Aside from its eye-catching professional look, the new widget has added features that many MyBlogLog members will find valuable, especially to members who are involved in Search Engine Optimization or SEO.

One of the reasons most of us join MyBlogLog is to promote our website as we visit other websites of MyBlogLog members. So if someone is interested with our MyBlogLog photo, he hovers over it, see our username, and click it to see more details about us.

But now, it is better because every time we visit a site, we will now leave more details about us, not just to show this to the owner of the site, but to other visitors as well.

When a visitor hover over our photo, he will not only see our location, the link to add to you to his contacts or to view your profile, but also the site we authored. So when he clicks the link he will see the latest contents of our site in MyBlogLog and might be interested to check our site as well. If you author a number of sites (like the member shown in the photo above), the visitor will see all the links to them and he will just choose a site that interests him.

So update your widgets now.

When I found this out I was excited to update my widget because I was really bored with the old one. I immediately logged-in to my MyBlogLog account, and was surprised to see limited options for the new widget. There are only 7 colors available: black, blue, brown, green, red, orange and purple. I have chosen black for one of my blogs and blue in another blog, because the blue color blends perfectly with the theme.

Also, I noticed I could see more details about the MyBlogLog members who visited my site when I hovered the cursor over their photos. I could also see their locations and sites authored, and a link to add them to my contacts list, or to view their profiles.

The Top Links however, are not immediately attached to the widget. There is a separate code for it, and still has the old design. Anyways, if you want the old widget, it is still available. Just look for the link on the top of the widgets settings page.