Simple Blogger Tutorials

Twitter has officially launched their Follow Button, which can be also added to Blogger. The best feature of this Follow button is that your readers don't need to visit Twitter to find and follow you. Instead, with just one click, they can instantly follow you without leaving your blog. It can also show the number of followers you have and can also be customized according to your needs. You can always visit Twitter official page to get the Follow Button but having it for Blogger posts requires a series of simple steps which I will guide you through.

Twitter has released their official share buttons with counter. In this tutorial we will discuss on how to add this Tweet Button to Blogger In this new Tweet Button, you can customize the size, mention yourself and can also mention related Twitter user whom you may want to be followed by others. So have a look at the live example below by tweeting it.

You can automatically add links of your blog’s post updates on your Twitter profile whenever you publish a new post. If you didn’t knew about this then let’s see how to do it. First of all you need a Google FeedBurner account to enable this feature. Most bloggers use this service to manage their feeds. If you use Blogger and have not done it yet then set-up FeedBurner first. Next, sign in and go to “Publicize” tab.

You may like to add a “ Follow me ” button or icon to Blogger to increase the number of followers for your Twitter account. I will give you two types of tutorials. First tutorial is for a normal one and the second is for the fixed and floating button.

“The retweet button is for blog and website publishers who want to encourage their readers to tweet their content on Twitter.” This button also acts like a twitter counter. It not only allows your readers to tweet your blog posts to their twitter accounts but also shows the number of times your blog posts has been tweeted. You can easily get the source code from TweetMeme but here also need an explanation on how to add this to your blogger posts. Generally when you get the code for the full script, it will look like: <script type='text/javascript'> tweetmeme_url = ' http://yoururl.com '; tweetmeme_source = ' tweetmeme '; tweetmeme_service = ' bit.ly '; </script> <script src='http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js' type='text/javascript'/> Now for an explanation: ' http://yoururl.com ' is the blog post URL, change it to ' <data:post.url/> ' ' tweetmeme ' is the twitter account, change it...