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Did you know that Twitter can help drive traffic to your Blogspot blog? In today's Blogger tutorial I show you how to add a free Twitter Retweet button to your Blogger posts. Adding a Tweetmeme Twitter Retweet button to Blogger will help promote your blog on Twitter in 2 ways: one by attracting new Twitter followers and two by increasing the direct traffic to your blog from Twitter. Forget the preamble and take me straight to the instructions to insert the Retweet button into Blogger What is Twitter and How Does it Work? Twitter is currently the fastest growing free social networking site. Essentially, Twitter users micro blog about what they are doing or what others are doing by posting tweets of around 140 characters to Twitter. When Twitter members read these tweets and like what they read they can become followers much in the same way that your readers can choose to follow your blog. Twitter is great news for bloggers because it can be used as a vehicle to promote blogs. Blo...

In today's Blogger tutorial (Blogspot tutorial) you will learn how to place social bookmark buttons in the sidebar, footer and below each post in a Blogger Blogspot blog. This is a social bookmarking script for individual buttons or icons rather than the Add This all-in-one solution that I have previously written about. These free social bookmark buttons will encourage social bookmarking SEO by having your visitors save their favorite content and hopefully share it on social media sites such as Digg , Technorati and Stumble Upon thereby helping to grow your blog traffic. I personally prefer to use an Add This social bookmark button because individual buttons can create a cluttered busy look. However, I also realize that the Add This social bookmarking button is not necessarily that recognizable to visitors who may have otherwise bookmarked your pages had the button been more recognizable to them. How to Add Social Bookmark Buttons to Blogger Sidebar or Footer 1. Login to Bl...

One way to get your blog to grow is add social bookmarking buttons to your Blogger Blogspot blog . In an earlier article I wrote about the simplest way to place social media on a Blogger blog - that is to add an all-in-one Add This social bookmarking button . However, as one size doesn't fit all situations there may be lots of times when you would prefer to add individual social bookmark buttons to your Blogger blog . That's why I have put together this list of useful free social bookmarking button sets. All are free to use on a personal blog and most have no restrictions for commercial use either but please do double check the license when you download them if you want to use the buttons commercially. Best Sources of Social Bookmarking Buttons for Blogger Blogspot 128 Completely Free Icons Set 128 Icons available in 48×48px. Includes Social Media Icons such as: Design Float, Digg, Delicious, Furl, Technorati, Flickr, Stumble Upon, Twitter & more… Web 2.0 Icons (23 icons...

In this tutorial you will learn how to add a Twitter badge aka Twitter button to your Blogger Blogspot blog to link your blog to your Twitter account. By adding a Twitter button you will give your readers the option to follow your blog on Twitter. Display a Twitter Icon in the Sidebar of Your Blogger Blog If you look at the top of the right sidebar you will notice that I have placed a Twitter icon with a link to my Twitter profile. Adding the Twitter badge and link is not difficult and requires no change to the template. We will simply be adding a gadget to the sidebar. I have assumed no knowledge of Blogger and widgets so that absolute Blogger beginners can follow this tutorial. 1. Login to Blogger if not already logged in 2. Navigate to Layout > Page Elements 3. Click on Add a Gadget in the sidebar or other location eg the footer if you prefer 4. Select HTML/Javascript from the list of available gadgets 5. Paste the following code into the content box depending on your choice o...

In this tutorial you will learn how to place a Twitter Follower Counter on your Blogger Blogspot blog to display the number of followers you have on Twitter. A Twitter count button will encourage readers to follow you on Twitter much in the same way as putting a Feedburner subscriber counter on your blog will encourage new subscribers. How To Place a Twitter Followers Counter on Blogger 1. Login to Blogger if not already logged in 2. Navigate to Layout > Page Elements 3. Click on the link to Add a Gadget to the sidebar or footer 4. Select HTML/Javascript from the list of gadgets 5. Paste the following script into the widget content box depending on the button your prefer: Standard Button <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://twittercounter.com/embed/?username= yourTwitterusername "></script> Black Button <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://twittercounter.co...

Today's article discusses where to place a digg.com button on your Blogspot Blogger blog and shows you how to add an integrated digg button to your blog. The button allows your blog's visitors to digg posts from your blog and submit those articles to Digg. What is Digg.com? Digg is a social content site where readers submit stories, videos and images. Depending on interest and popularity articles are commented on by members. You can encourage your readers to digg your stories by adding a Digg button to your Blogger blog. The button will display a real time count of the number of times your post has been dugg. Why Add a Digg Button to My Blogger Blogspot Blog? Why would I want to add more buttons to my blog you may be wondering. Well there are a number of reasons why getting on board with Digg will be helpful to you in growing your blog. Digg is a ready source of traffic that can drive visitors to your blog and it is too important to overlook. When visitors digg your stories ...

In this tutorial you will learn how to add an Add This free Social Bookmarking button to your Blogger blog (Blogspot) blog. By adding this feature to your blog you will enable visitors to your blog to create links to popular social bookmarking sites such as Google, Technorati, Facebook, MySpace, Digg, Stumble Upon, Reddit, Delicious, Furl, Yahoo etc . Adding personal social bookmarks enables visitors to share these links with others thereby helping you attract more traffic to your site. For more information on the benefits of social bookmarking please refer to my article - Benefits of Social Bookmarking for Blogger bloggers. This tutorial shows you how to place a social bookmarking button on your site by accessing a free social bookmark and feed button builder service called Add This . Add This will supply you with a simple piece of code which when placed in a widget will insert a social bookmarking button either at the end of each post or in the sidebar. If you wish you can add the ...