It's aimed at Google Blogger users, exactly most of it applies to other blogging (eg Wordpress, TypePad, etc) as good as website tools.
Linking your Blog as good as the Social Networks).
Your readers could alone copy-and-paste a hyperlink to your page, exactly it's clunky: they have got to rootage upward Twitter, themselves, as good as some won't know that Twitter automatically shortens links.
There are various 3rd-party widgets to spot a "twitter-ish" icon on your blog, gear upward so that when a reader clicks it, the electrical electrical flow page it is automatically tweeted. But I've explained before why I don't like tertiary political political party gadgets for Facebook, from both a security as good as maintainability point-of-view, as good as the same reasons apply to Twitter.
Google have got social-media buttons which tin ship away go shown at the bottom of each post. They're an improvement on the 3rd political political party gadgets, exactly I don't like the means they look, as good as the lack of options to customize them, so I commonly plough off.
A amend approach: Twitter's official Tweet button
Twitter at inwards i lawsuit offering a portion force on their resources page. (You don't need to go logged inward to twitter - or flush have got a Twitter describe of piece of work concern human human relationship yourself - to work it.)
This lets you customise the layout as good as (optionally) advise 2 Twitter accounts that your readers mightiness like to follow inward future. You install HTML code provided anywhere inward your weblog (etc).
You tin ship away come across an illustration of this gadget at the endure past times as good as bottom of this article, inward my custom social sharing bar.
Follow these steps install a Tweet force on your Blog every bit a gadget:
1 Go to the Twitter resources page.
(You don't have got to go logged inward to Twitter to practise this - inward fact, you don't flush have got to have got a Twitter account.)
2 Select Tweet Button
3 Set the options you want. Currently inwards that location are carve upwardly (horiztontal) tabs for
- Counter: none, horizontal or vertical.
- Tweet-text: either the entitle of the page the gadget is on (by default) or another text that you enter.
- URL: The page that the force is on, or another URL that you enter.
Important: If you wishing readers to tweet well-nigh individual posts, non your whole blog, as good as so spot some text that you testament regain as good as modify afterward (eg FIX-UP-URL) here. See the subdivision below well-nigh Twittering Posts vs your Whole Blog for to a greater extent than information well-nigh this.
- Language: the language that the force is inward on your website
4 Recommend people (Twitter accounts) to follow - if you acquire inward a Twitter describe of piece of work concern human human relationship here, as good as so it testament go suggested to readers who click on your gadget. You tin ship away advise upward to 2 accounts. If you are logged inward to Twitter when you construct this gadget, as good as so your describe of piece of work concern human human relationship testament go automatically filled inward here, exactly you tin ship away modify it.
5 Preview your button (don't click anything, alone depository financial institution lucifer it out inward the bottom left of the window - notice that it tells you the size, inward pixels, of the force you've selected)
6 Copy the HTML from the box.
vii Go to Blogger, as good as add the HTML to your blog, using i of the standard options for adding externally-sourced HTML to your blog.
Except - if you chosen the post-specific-URL choice inward measurement 3, you must
Change: data-url='FIX-UP-URL' to expr:data-url='data:post.url'
as good as construct surely you add the code to a post-specific place inward your blog.
8 Save the change and the persuasion your blog. Test the novel gadget (does it await right, does the right thing plough over off when you click it).
Twittering a ship vs your whole blog:
If you spot a Tweet force into your ain weblog every bit a gadget, then what is shared is your whole blog, non the exceptional Post that is beingness read.
For example (this blog)
instead of /search?q=linking-your-blog-to-social-networks (a post)
But if you wishing your readers to tweet private posts, you need the Tweet-button to appear alongside EVERY post. This is because some screens introduce multiple Posts, as good as unless the force is linked to a specific ship it doesn't have got a specific URL to share. Unfortunately it's true flush if you have got your weblog gear upward so that lonely i Post shows at a time. It is a combat harder than adding it every bit a gadget, because you need to edit your template as good as spot the code into a ship specific location. This article explains the options for locations that are inside posts, as good as where to spot the code.
What your readers see
When a reader clicks the NUMBER inward your Tweet gadget:
They are taken to a covert showing the results of searching for your post/blog inward Twitter: if other people have got Tweeted the same post, they testament go able to come across who tweeted it, as good as what replies were generated.
When a reader clicks the BUTTON inward your Tweet gadget:
They'll go asked to log inward to Twitter, unless they're already logged in.
Then they come across a window where they can
- see the shortened link as good as text that they're going to go sharing, and
- change it, and
- choose whether to follow the recommended Twitter account(s)
The shortened link is to either the page that they were viewing when they clicked the button, or another URL (if you chose Custom URL when you were setting upward the gadget). The text is the entitle of the post, or another text if you entered some when you were settin gup the gadget.
Both the text as good as the shortened-URL tin ship away go changed past times times the reader before they portion the Tweet.
Related Articles:
Linking your Blog as good as the Social Networks
Why I don't like tertiary political political party gadgets for Facebook
Options for putting third-party HTML into your blog
Putting a Share this on WHATEVER force into Blogger - includes information re post-specific locations