How to add Social Bookmarks to Blogger

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How to add Social Bookmarks to Blogger

• By
• Anwin
• http//anw.in/

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Why Social bookmarks?

• Blog readers can bookmark your posts for future
  reference or sharing to others
• This increases your visibility on the particular
  post
• Brings more traffic to your blog from various
  social bookmarking sites
• And THAT, is an incentive to blog more ?

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AddThis

• Blogger.com has no provision for native support
  to social bookmarks
• However, there are workarounds
• Visit http//www.addthis.com/web-button-select
• Select the social bookmarking button you like
• Then select on a blog and Blogger platform
• Click on the "Get your button code" button
• Copy the code on the next page and paste it on a
  notepad or just leave the window open.

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AddThis screenshot
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AddThis Code screenshot
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Steps in Blogger

• Log in to www.blogger.com
• Once logged in you will see your dashboard
• Click on the layout link of the blog where you
  want to add Social bookmarks

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Edit Layout
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Edit template

• Click on Edit HTML link to edit your template
• Select the check box that says Expand Widget
  Template
• Do a search for the tag ltdiv class'post-footer'gt
  in the template
• Copy and paste the Social bookmarking widget code
  below this tag

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Edit template screenshot
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Add code screenshot
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Last steps

• Click on Save Template
• Social Bookmarking has been added to your blog
• Have fun making your blog readers add your blog
  posts to Digg, Delicious and other Social
  Bookmarking sites

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Final result
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Thank you

• Do visit http//awesomephoto.blogspot.com/ for a
  live demo
• This is an old blog of mine which has now become
  Awesome Photos - http//awesomefotos.com/
• Please do note edit or use any excerpts from
  this guide without prior written permission from
  me. However, you can email or post a blog about
  this guide.
• Contact anwin at anw dot in