Are you using Tabs in your blog ? If not you could be missing out in converting random visitors to potential regular readers.If one of your posts gets stumbled or dug, chances are you would get some nice traffic. When someone comes to a blog for the first time they want to find out whether its worthwhile to come for more.Thats where the tabs play an important part.

You cant show your recent posts , most commented posts and recent comments all in the home page. Well you can add them all in the sidebar but chances of user seeing them are low if they are placed in the bottom of your side bar . Tabs get rid of this problem for you.

If you are a Wordpress user there are plenty of plug-ins that help you to achieve this. This theme already had tabs enabled in the sidebar so all I had to do was move them to the top of posts.But there are plenty of other resources that helps you to add tabs in your blog.Listed below are few of the most popular ones that are regularly updated and have instruction on how to install and etc.There are plenty more out there so be sure to do some searching if none of the ones listed below are suited for your blog.

• idTabs - The one used in this blog, pretty easy to install and customize. There are plenty of examples of how to modify them according to your theme. Be sure to check out the different examples given in different tabs
• DOMTab - Another widely used one , also easy to install and customize , plenty of examples so you can change your tabs according to your needs.Pro Blog Design has a nice post about how to install DOMTabs and also provides a style sheet so you can customize it to suit your blog.

Most of the instructions are given with Wordpress in mind but they can be used in almost any blogging platform.Are you using tabs in your blog ? If not why not give it a try and see the results.