This plugin worked well for me.

I’m in the middle of reducing any duplicate content, so I’m hoping showing excerpts will reduce some of it. Combining that with a robots.txt file, and a sitemap, should get me close to no duplication.

I’m keeping a close eye on Google’s webmaster tools for my account.

Where I have “What others are reading”, used to be “popular posts ” (most viewed), but I changed it to rank the posts by the number of comments, as I think others may like to see what my loyal commenters have to say.

I kept my “recently written” in a separate column, and that makes it easy to scan my last 15 posts.

The “Digg” chicklet is something I have been experimenting with, as I sometimes submit posts to Digg. I don’t really think it helps, unless you have a lot of loyal Digg traffic. By showing the chicklet, a reader can submit your article to Digg. Each time your article is “Dugg”, the number increases.

Digg is another social network, to which you can submit articles, in hopes of bringing traffic to your site. The chicklet is not necessary to do so.

Actually, I like it when index page is only showing the summary. Then you will have a quick overview of all the articles.

Also did you have the list “what others are reading” before? Maybe, I just did not notice it before. I like the list, then, I can go back to your old good articles quickly.

By the way, I have a very basic question. I notice that you have “diggs” at the end of the article. What is it supposed to do? I do not have it on my blog. Does it really help?