How to Add Tweet and Facebook Like/Share Buttons to Blogger
Blogger is a free blogging platform and host owned by Google. One way to encourage people to visit your blog is to provide a way for your readers to share a link to your blog on popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Both of these sites have created code that lets bloggers place buttons on their blog posts. In Facebook's case, the button says "Like" and in Twitter's case, it says "Tweet."
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Instructions
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Add a Facebook "Like" Button
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Visit the "Like Button" page in the Facebook Developers area.
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Type "post.url" into the field labeled "URL to Like" at the top of the form. Specify a width, color scheme and font and change other attributes as desired. Click on the "Get Code" button below the form when you are done.
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Copy the code from the window that appears. Choose the "HTML5" implementation using the drop-down menu at the top of the box unless you a good reason to do otherwise, since the option "XFBML" is being phased out by Facebook.
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Sign in to Blogger. Click on "Layout" in the list of options on the left side.
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Click on "Edit HTML." Paste the code you copied. Click on the "Save Arrangement" button.
Add Tweet Button
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Visit the Tweet Button page.
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Choose the options for layout and type in people to recommend that your visitors follow, if desired. Click on the "Generate Code" button and copy the code.
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Sign in to Blogger and click on "Layout" in the list of options on the left side.
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Click on "Edit HTML." Paste the code you copied above. Click on the "Save Arrangement" button.
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Tips & Warnings
You do not have to have a Facebook account or a Twitter account to add these buttons to your blog.
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