...one of the ways a blogger makes his blog post popular, shared and read by many, is by adding a social share button to his blog post; either below or at the top.
In this post I will take you trough a tutorial on how to us "add this" social share button on your blog post to reach more audience or people. One spectacular thing about the add this social share button is, it let's one know how many times a post is shared on each social networking site e.g facebook, Google+, linkden e.t.c, not only this it gives one an option to share his blog post to over 200 social sites.
How to add the add this social share button to your blogger blog.
1. Lunch your browser, ...on the address bar type this site name to open www.addthis.com/get/sharing page or click here to open.
2. To get the addThis social share button, you must be a registered member. Click on the Creat Account button to begin the registration process.(see image below)
...you will be asked to fill the void boxes with the appropriate information e.g your names, email, phone number e.t.c.
After filling the boxes click on Register, as seen on the image above.
3. After you clicked on the register button; you are automatically logged in.
Now below the Get Sharing Button
select the A website(see image above) from the options provided.
4. Select the share button style, choose the one you think is best suitable to your blog or site.
You can preview the share button style, locate the preview button at the right side of you screen.
5. After you have chooses the button style. A code will be provided to you, click on the grab it Button to copy the code.
Note; the code provided will be similar or closely look like the code below.
<! AddThis Button BEGIN ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_pinterest_pinit" pi:pinit:layout="horizontal"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a>
<script type="text/javascript">var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-XXXXXXXXXXX"></script><! AddThis Button END >
Now after you have created the button, chosed the style and copied the code; let's add it to the footer of your blog post.
How to add the share button to the footer of your blog post.
Step1. Login in to your blogger dashboard, locate the blog Template option and click on EDIT HTML.
Step2. Click anywhere in the code area, click this code command CTRL+F, this will open a blank search box.
Select the code below and paste it into the blank search box
Now paste the AddThis share button above the code.
Note; if you want the AddThis share button to appear at the beginning of your blog post, add the share button below this code
Simply paste this code in the blank search box to search for it, now paste the AddThis social share button below this code
How to add more AddThis social share Button.
...lets say after you might have added the AddThis social share button to you blog post. You might want to add more social site button simply login to your AddThis membership account.
From the "get sharing Button for" select the A website option, get the code of the particular social site AddThis social share Button, by clicking on the Grab it Button.
...from the blog template Press this command key CTRL+F to search for this code by copy and paste process. Paste the AddThis social share Button before the .
An example below is for linkedin AddThis social share Button.
<a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a>/* linkedin button */
<a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a>/*gplus button*/<a class="addthis_button_digg"></a>/* digg button */<a class="addthis_button_stumbleupon"></a>/*stumbleupon button */<a class="addthis_button_print"></a>/* print button */
CSS3 AddThis share button
You can also put a single social network in display so that when a mouse hovers over it, a menu list of social network to share the post will open.
How to add css3 AddThis share button...
1. Login to your blogger dashboard, click on Template and select EDIT HTML.
Press the command CTRL+F to search for this code below
2. Copy the code below and paste it above the searched code.
<style type='text/css'>.addthis_share_btn a, .addthis_share_btn a:visited {background:#FF5C00;/* background color of the button */display: inline-block;padding: 6px 12px;font-family: arial,helvetica,lucida,verdana,sans-serif;font-size: 12px;line-height: 1em;color: #fff;text-decoration: none;-moz-border-radius: 5px;-webkit-border-radius: 5px;-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);border-radius: 5px;box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);text-shadow: 0 -1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.25);border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.25);position: relative;cursor: pointer;}.addthis_share_btn a:hover {background:#D45500#D45500;/background color on mouse hover */color: #fff;}.addthis_share_btn a:active { top: 1px; }.addthis_share_btn a span,.addthis_share_btn:visited a span {background: url(http://www.addthis.com/cms-content/images/gallery/icon-addthis.gif) no-repeat left;padding: 1px 0 1px 18px;}</style><! AddThis Share Button ><a class='addthis_button_compact' href='http://addthis.com/bookmark.php'><span>Share</span></a><script src='http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js' type='text/javascript'/><! End AddThis Share Button >
...to customize the AddThis share button
(A.) If you want to change the "Share" text to you preference change the word in blue color.
(B.) to change the color of the button according to your blog template color, modify the two values red.
...don't forget to share and comment on the post, your friend(s) might need this.
In this post I will take you trough a tutorial on how to us "add this" social share button on your blog post to reach more audience or people. One spectacular thing about the add this social share button is, it let's one know how many times a post is shared on each social networking site e.g facebook, Google+, linkden e.t.c, not only this it gives one an option to share his blog post to over 200 social sites.
How to add the add this social share button to your blogger blog.
1. Lunch your browser, ...on the address bar type this site name to open www.addthis.com/get/sharing page or click here to open.
2. To get the addThis social share button, you must be a registered member. Click on the Creat Account button to begin the registration process.(see image below)
...you will be asked to fill the void boxes with the appropriate information e.g your names, email, phone number e.t.c.
After filling the boxes click on Register, as seen on the image above.
3. After you clicked on the register button; you are automatically logged in.
Now below the Get Sharing Button
select the A website(see image above) from the options provided.
4. Select the share button style, choose the one you think is best suitable to your blog or site.
You can preview the share button style, locate the preview button at the right side of you screen.
5. After you have chooses the button style. A code will be provided to you, click on the grab it Button to copy the code.
Note; the code provided will be similar or closely look like the code below.
<!
<script type="text/javascript">var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-XXXXXXXXXXX"></script><!
Now after you have created the button, chosed the style and copied the code; let's add it to the footer of your blog post.
How to add the share button to the footer of your blog post.
Step1. Login in to your blogger dashboard, locate the blog Template option and click on EDIT HTML.
Step2. Click anywhere in the code area, click this code command CTRL+F, this will open a blank search box.
Select the code below and paste it into the blank search box
Now paste the AddThis share button above the code.
Note; if you want the AddThis share button to appear at the beginning of your blog post, add the share button below this code
Simply paste this code in the blank search box to search for it, now paste the AddThis social share button below this code
How to add more AddThis social share Button.
...lets say after you might have added the AddThis social share button to you blog post. You might want to add more social site button simply login to your AddThis membership account.
From the "get sharing Button for" select the A website option, get the code of the particular social site AddThis social share Button, by clicking on the Grab it Button.
...from the blog template Press this command key CTRL+F to search for this code by copy and paste process. Paste the AddThis social share Button before the .
An example below is for linkedin AddThis social share Button.
<a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a>/* linkedin button */
<a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a>/*gplus button*/<a class="addthis_button_digg"></a>/* digg button */<a class="addthis_button_stumbleupon"></a>/*stumbleupon button */<a class="addthis_button_print"></a>/* print button */
CSS3 AddThis share button
You can also put a single social network in display so that when a mouse hovers over it, a menu list of social network to share the post will open.
How to add css3 AddThis share button...
1. Login to your blogger dashboard, click on Template and select EDIT HTML.
Press the command CTRL+F to search for this code below
2. Copy the code below and paste it above the searched code.
<style type='text/css'>.addthis_share_btn a, .addthis_share_btn a:visited {background:#FF5C00;/* background color of the button */display: inline-block;padding: 6px 12px;font-family: arial,helvetica,lucida,verdana,sans-serif;font-size: 12px;line-height: 1em;color: #fff;text-decoration: none;-moz-border-radius: 5px;-webkit-border-radius: 5px;-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);border-radius: 5px;box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);text-shadow: 0 -1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.25);border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.25);position: relative;cursor: pointer;}.addthis_share_btn a:hover {background:#D45500#D45500;/background color on mouse hover */color: #fff;}.addthis_share_btn a:active { top: 1px; }.addthis_share_btn a span,.addthis_share_btn:visited a span {background: url(http://www.addthis.com/cms-content/images/gallery/icon-addthis.gif) no-repeat left;padding: 1px 0 1px 18px;}</style><!
...to customize the AddThis share button
(A.) If you want to change the "Share" text to you preference change the word in blue color.
(B.) to change the color of the button according to your blog template color, modify the two values red.
...don't forget to share and comment on the post, your friend(s) might need this.
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