How to Add a Facebook Like Button to a Signature in Google
When someone clicks the Facebook "like" button, your site appears on his Facebook wall and awareness of your page increases. You can specify exactly which URL a button "likes" -- it does not have to be the page, or in this case email, on which the button appears. At time of publication, the Facebook "like" button uses JavaScript, which does not work in an email, but you can emulate the "like" button functionality with a couple lines of HTML. When a recipient clicks the button, he is directed to a Facebook page to click "like" a second time in order to count his vote.
Instructions
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Save a copy of a Facebook "like" button image to a location accessible on the Internet. You can upload the image to many free image-hosting websites such as Flickr, Box.net or ImageShack. Make note of the exact URL of your hosted "like" button image.
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Visit gmail.com and log in to your email account.
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Click the gear icon in the top right corner and click "Mail Settings."
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Click the image button in the Signature box.
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Type the full URL to your Facebook "like" button and click "OK."
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Highlight the button image and click the link button, which resembles two chain links.
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Type the following URL into the box and click "OK":
http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=YOURURL?ref%3Dts&layout=standard&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=80 target=
Replace "YOURURL" with the URL you want the button to "like."
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Click "Save Changes" near the bottom of the screen. You now have a Facebook "like" button in your email signature on Google.
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