How to Add an AddThis Button to Blogger Posts
Have you ever seen that "Bookmark" or "Share" button in blog posts and articles and wondered how to add it to your blog? That is the AddThis button. You can add it to your Blogger template for free and use it to increase traffic. The AddThis button is a useful social bookmarking and sharing tool. With just a couple of mouse clicks, anyone can share a blog post or article via social networking accounts, email or blogs.
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Instructions
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Visit the AddThis website and open an account for free. Supply a username, password and e-mail address. Once you have registered, you can create an AddThis button.
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Create an AddThis button. You can use the default code, but it's better to customize it to get the look you prefer.
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Go through the AddThis button wizard step-by-step. Specify Blogger as the medium you will be using it in. Choose the appearance you would like for your bookmarking and sharing button. Choose a familiar button that your readers will recognize.
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Preview your button. Test it to see how it works.
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Get the code. Click on the gray button near the bottom of the screen.
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Install to the Blogger Sidebar. If you want to do this, you will be taken to the Blogger site so you can add an AddThis widget to your blog's sidebar.
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Copy the code to your Blogger template. Right-click and select the AddThis code. Log in to your Blogger account. Go to "Layout" and "Edit HTML." Insert the AddThis code where you want it in the code. You will now have an AddThis button in every blog post.
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Tips & Warnings
Use the AddThis button to quickly update your social bookmarking and networking sites. For example, if you have a Twitter account you use for site promotion, you can update it each time you post an article to your blog.
Do not use the Post Template feature in Blogger to insert the AddThis button in. It won't update all posts, only new ones.
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This was really helpful. Thanks a lot. =D
