Latest Google Page Rank Update August 2012

I know you all keep a close eye on the page rank for your blogs, I have to admit I also look out for it.Google usually update toolbar page rank four times a year so around every three months.Well today we we have noticed a Major page rank update taking place.A number of my sites have seen a page rank change, at the time of writing Spice Up Your Blog is holding steady with a page rank of 5.You can quickly check the page rank of your blog to see if there was any change using our free page rank checker tool. :

Google Page Rank Tool
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Why I’m Sick Of ‘SEO Is Dying’ Posts

Guest Post - Our host is Jessica, In this post Jessica gives her opinion on why SEO is not on the way out.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Every day it appears some self-appointed ‘expert’ has declared the industry of SEO dead on its knees, this time next year we’ll all be flipping burgers, stacking shelves or asking people if they’d like a copy of The Big Issue. Whilst I don’t have the advantage of having a time machine (some guy with floppy hair wearing a bow tie stole it) I think we really do have to stop with the doom and gloom before it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Why Is SEO always about to die ?

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5 Top Tips For Optimizing Images For Google Search

Guest Post - Our host is August Drilling, August takes an in-dept look at optimizing your images for search along with tutorials for WordPress and Blogger.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

If you haven’t noticed, a new visual trend has hit the web, and Pinterest is a prime example of this image-based trend in action. High quality, engaging images receive tons of love on Pinterest, generating loads of traffic back to the originating website.

Besides Pinterest, though, even images found in the classic Google Image search provide great potential for increased site traffic. But, similar to ranking well in Google’s traditional search, your images must be optimized to win this extra traffic.

So to capitalize on the image-based trend, lets go over the top tips for optimizing your images for Google. It’s quick and easy, so let’s get started.
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Google Release New Must See SEO Videos To Help Your Blog On Google Search

You know when I started Blogging like all new Bloggers I immediately wondered how will I get my blog on Google.How can I get my Blog and posts to be displayed in search results and have visitors sent by Google.Once I started to learn about how Google works and the steps I could take to help my blogs rank on Google I somehow felt like I was in a way 'Fooling Google'.By optimizing my site I was for the want of a better word 'Tricking' Google into displaying my content in their results.

But the truth is Google want to crawl your content, Google want your content to be easy to crawl, They want your site optimized and if your content is unique and useful they want to rank it on the first page of their results for related searches.

It seems a lot of posts I have published recently especially guest posts have been on the topic of Search Engine Optimization; and many new Bloggers think SEO is somehow a shady thing.But Google through sources like webmaster tools openly promote the use of SEO and Google employees like Matt Cutts Posts on his blog through Q&A videos helps webmasters and bloggers improve their sites for search.

So in this post I have added 10 videos the Google search quality team created this week to help beginners get their sites and blogs on Google.These videos are listed in a 'Step By Step' format and I highly recommend everyone from beginners to experienced bloggers take a look.

In the final video Google Search quality team member Maile Ohye becomes your personal SEO adviser.

10 SEO Videos From Google

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Content And Blog Marketing In The Post-Penguin Era

Guest Post - Our host is Jenny Rasmussen, who looks at Blogging and SEO in the wake of the Google Penguin algorithm change.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

With the “Penguin” update that launched on April 22, Google changed the search engine optimization (or “SEO”) game more significantly than ever before. Originally announced as a means to penalize webmasters who had over-optimized their webpages and link building efforts, the Penguin filter is now here to stay and ignoring its effects could cause your blog and website to plummet in Google’s search results.

So – what is the answer? How can a blogger continue to rank highly on Google and Bing without resorting to the SEO tactics of yesteryear? Let’s take a look at content – in the form of images, videos or written pieces – and how it can greatly improve your inbound traffic and where you show up in the search results.
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How Google Penguin Update Will Affect Your Blog ?

Guest Post - Today's host is Roger Collings, who looks at the recent Google algorithm change.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

In April, Google launched the Penguin algorithm aimed to detecting and filtering out websites and blogs classified as ‘spam’ from its search results. A month later, Google released an update to the Penguin algorithm to identify and blacklist websites which violate its quality guidelines.

While implementing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a standard practice for websites and blogs, the Penguin update is aimed at scrutinizing over optimization and spamming. As a blog owner, if you’ve adopted over-optimization techniques, there’s a good chance that the Penguin update has already hit your blog.

Let’s try and understand what is the Google Penguin update and how does it affect you and your blog?

What is Penguin Update

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Google drive launched : Start Sharing Files

Guest Post By Jalil Rehman.Want to get involved ? See how you can become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Google has been launching many new services. A few days ago, It launched Google Code and provided an amazing service to the users. But it was not just over, Now it has launched the brand new Google Drive and gave users a new experience. Google Drive actually is online file-storage service like Microsoft's SkyDrive. But as expected, it comes with many amazing features. The main goal is that, it let's users to upload files and share them with anyone on the Internet. It gives you 5GB free online storage with many new exciting features including smart tagging, image recognition etc. Let's discuss about other features.

Setting up Google Drive

You will need a Google Account to set up with Google Drive. If you have google account, then start using Google Drive with free 5GB online storage. You will be guided step by step after logging in to Google Drive. It's very easy.
What's amazing about it?

There are many unique and latest features in the new Google Drive. Watch the official video of Google Drive below to get familiar with Google Plus in detail.


Sharing and Storage

As already mentioned google drives gives 5GB free online storage. The maximum upload file size limit is 10GB. But the users which have 5GB of total storage, can upload a file of 5GB. It's really amazing. You can upload images, documents, videos etc. and can also share your files with people which also have Google Drive Account.

You will have to install a software for Google Drive in your PC, and then it will create a folder named "Google Drive" on your Desktop. You just have to drag and drop the file you want to upload and share, in that folder and your files will start uploading on your Google Drive account. The files which are uploaded will appear on your account and you can share that. People can download, view, comment and edit your files with your permission. You can also sync your files with iPhone, Android etc.

By default, you will be provided 5GB of free storage. Maybe that's not enough for you. You can extend it at reasonable prices as given below. You can buy up to 1TB of storage.

25 GB = 2.49$ / month
100 GB = 4.99$ / month
1TB = 24.99$ / month

Integration

You can integrate your uploaded files with many products of Google e.g Google Code, Google Docs, Gmail etc. You can choose file of any format and even you can also covert your format before uploading.

Smart Tagging and Search Filter

These are one of my favourite features of Google Drive. You can filter anything from your files e.g you can find images, videos, documents etc. from a bunch of files in seconds. You can tag the images with different labels and then find them easily with one click.

Text Recognition and Offline Viewing

If you've forgotten the name of any file and you want to find it, then Google Drive can find it by matching your given text with the text in the files. Viewing your documents offline is another goal of Google Drive. You just have to install an app in Google Chrome, and then you can view your documents offline in Google Drive.

Google has always tried to provide the users with latest and unique tools and features. Google Drive has many features which other related sites don't give. I hope Google will update this Google Drive and provide more flexibility to users.

By Guest Author - Jalil loves to write about Blogging Tips and SEO Techniques. He is interested in tweaking templates and creating Blogger Widgets.

New Google +1 Button And Google+ Badge For Blogger

Blogger today added two new options to the gadget gallery, the gadget gallery is a collection of gadgets you can add to your blog via the "Add A Gadget" option on your blog layout page.The two new options are for the new Google +, Firstly a Google +1 button for readers to recommend your blog, and secondly a Google + badge for readers to follow your Google+ updates.

Imagine being able to share your blog with like-minded people across the web. Today we’ve made doing that easier with the introduction of two Google+ gadgets, the +1 button and Google+ Badge.Unlike the +1 button that can appear below a post, this gadget is specific to your blog. Displaying it on your blog will allow visitors to endorse your blog and share it with their friends.

As stated above you can add these new gadgets to your blogs sidebar, footer or anywhere that accepts gadget.Simply go to your blog layout page, click Add A Gadget and choose the gadget you want.For the +1 button you have options for the style while to add the Google Plus badge you will need your profile or page ID (A link to instructions is provided).

Have you added Spice Up Your Blog to your circles, also check out the official Blogger post here.

Drop your comments and questions below.

Fundamental Link Building Practices to Boost Your Search Engine Rankings in Google

Guest Post By Johan Hedin, See How You Can Become A Guest Author .

We hear the entire buzz about getting back links over the web, but why are links so important to gain higher search engine rankings? First of all, links allow the search engines to find and index your website in the search engine databases. Second, high quality links help drive direct traffic and give the search engines an indicator of the importance of your website. The amount, the quality (trust), and the relevance of back links, will reveal many important signals to the search engines to determine the order of ranking. Obviously, Google cares first about its users, which are their utmost priority. All their technology is based on this philosophy. The more and the better they are able to satisfy their users, the more they will increase their market share (to sell more Adwords ads). They don’t want to ruin their SERPs with useless spam. This is why links from trusted websites are so important. The more trust the more and better rankings you will get.

In order to rank higher, you have to understand how Google places value on links. Each link is counted as a vote, but not all links are created equal meaning that not every link’s value is counted the same. If a link is deemed as high quality, it will pass on more link juice and therefore help your website gain higher ranking positions (compared to lower quality links). This means that getting a few links from really established and trusted websites (a.k.a. authority websites) is worth much more than a big quantity of low quality links. This brings us to the next point.

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Latest Google Page Rank Update Underway Feburary 2012

I know all bloggers and webmasters keep an eye on their sites Google Page Rank.In short Page Rank is an indication of how Google rank your site in a scale from 1 to 10.Check out a previous post with more on Google Page Rank.We have been expecting a Page Rank update by the end of January start of February and i can confirm today that update has started.This site has seen a page rank increase from 4/10 to 5/10, i know this only happened today from a stats on our BuySellAds.

How To Check Your Blogs Page Rank

If you have the Google Toolbar Installed you will see the little green bar with the current page Page Rank.Other wise use our Free Google Page Rank Checker Tool right here on Spice Up Your Blog.

Hope you got a Page Rank Increase, Let Us Know In The Comments !

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New Chrome AdSense Toolbar Shows Earnings And More

The AdSense team have just released a toolbar extension for the Chrome browser.This AdSense toolbar has two main features.Firstly you can view your earnings without having to the leave page your on to visit your AdSense dashboard.This is somewhat useful but just saves a few seconds.The second feature however seems much more useful.With the toolbar installed when you visit your site your ad units will have an overlay which displays their performance.Both the earnings tab and overlay display the earnings for the current day, yesterdays earnings and earnings for the last seven days.Both also have a link to your AdSense dashboard while the unit overlay also has a link to edit the unit.

"..When viewing your website, this feature will show you a snapshot of your AdSense account performance as a widget in the corner of your browser window. It also includes ad overlays that describe the recent performance of specific ad units, and gives you the option to access AdSense directly.."

AdSense Earnings Tab

AdSense Unit Overlay

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Google Plus - Create A Facebook Style Fan Page On Google Plus

Google Plus has been live online since the end of June 2011, while it started growing at the speed of a runaway train questions are being asked as to it's future.Recently however Google have added a Google Plus Pages option for Business, Bands and products.Google Plus Pages are not just like Facebook Pages they have almost the exact same format.So for us Bloggers, we can as on Facebook create a page for our blog on Google Plus.Creating the page is quick and easy and in this post i will walk you through he steps.

Create A Google Plus Fan Page For Your Blog

Step 1. Go to the Google Plus Pages : Create Google Plus Page.

Step 2. Pick a category in on the left of the page, Click "Product Or Band".

Step 3. Add your page name (The Name Of Your Blog), and blog address in the website field.

Step 4. Agree to the terms and click create, that's it.

Check out the Spice Up Your Blog Google Plus Page.

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A Strange Fix For Missing Google Plus One Buttons

It's been a few weeks since the launch of Google Plus One and the Plus One Button.I'm sure many of you like me jumped on board and added the Plus One sharing or recommendation button to your blogs.I had it in a few positions and all my posts were been plus one'd (Thanks) then bang it's gone ? The script is in the head section of the template, the button code is were it should be but no sign of the button.I searched online for a solution and just found more similar questions "Were is the plus one button ?", "My plus one button is gone how can i fix it ?".

I think Plus One can be an important factor in which links people click in search results so i really wanted it back.I presume something in the template was in conflict with the button code but couldn't see what.Then i found a fix in a quiet unorthodox way.

I remember reading Google had partnered with Add This the social bookmarking service so i thought i would try the Add This version of the button, worth a go.When i added the code for the Add This version of the plus one button strangely all the plus one buttons worked again! Now you would think it is the script from Add This that is getting it to work but if i add just the script they don't work the actual button needs to be added also.

A strange Fix For The Google Plus One Button

Here is the code for the Add This version of the plus one button simply add it to your blogs template.On Blogger via a html/javascript gadget in your sidebar on Wordpress a text sidebar gadget would do.As the other buttons were now working i placed the add this version in the footer out of the way.

<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->
<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style ">
<a class="addthis_button_google_plusone"></a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#pubid=xa-4e13aac8372bd045"></script>
<!-- AddThis Button END -->

You can also go and get the button from AddThis.com.

That's how i fixed my Google plus one button let us know if it works for you.Make sure to check out more of our Social Media Tips and Social Bookmarking Gadgets.

Drop Your Comments And Questions Below.

A Strange Fix For Missing Google Plus One Buttons

It's been a few weeks since the launch of Google Plus One and the Plus One Button.I'm sure many of you like me jumped on board and added the Plus One sharing or recommendation button to your blogs.I had it in a few positions and all my posts were been plus one'd (Thanks) then bang it's gone ? The script is in the head section of the template, the button code is were it should be but no sign of the button.I searched online for a solution and just found more similar questions "Were is the plus one button ?", "My plus one button is gone how can i fix it ?".

I think Plus One can be an important factor in which links people click in search results so i really wanted it back.I presume something in the template was in conflict with the button code but couldn't see what.Then i found a fix in a quiet unorthodox way.

I remember reading Google had partnered with Add This the social bookmarking service so i thought i would try the Add This version of the button, worth a go.When i added the code for the Add This version of the plus one button strangely all the plus one buttons worked again! Now you would think it is the script from Add This that is getting it to work but if i add just the script they don't work the actual button needs to be added also.

A strange Fix For The Google Plus One Button

Here is the code for the Add This version of the plus one button simply add it to your blogs template.On Blogger via a html/javascript gadget in your sidebar on Wordpress a text sidebar gadget would do.As the other buttons were now working i placed the add this version in the footer out of the way.

<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->
<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style ">
<a class="addthis_button_google_plusone"></a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#pubid=xa-4e13aac8372bd045"></script>
<!-- AddThis Button END -->

You can also go and get the button from AddThis.com.

That's how i fixed my Google plus one button let us know if it works for you.Make sure to check out more of our Social Media Tips and Social Bookmarking Gadgets.

Drop Your Comments And Questions Below.

Awesome New Google Search Style Search Bar For Blogger

I'm sure you will have noticed the new Google design as covered in the post Evolving the Google design and experience on the official Google blog.While the changes have been subtle some stand out like the new sleek search bar on results pages.The new search bar has a more modern minimalist look with rounded corners and hover effect.But one new feature i quiet like is as you type your text into the search field an X appears than can be clicked to remove your text.Yes it's nothing major but still a neat feature none the less.So in this post i will show you how you can re-create the new Google search bar and use it on your blog.

Once on your blog it will look the very same, using jQuery for the X delete button and your blogs default search to generate results.This was covered on the Awesome Queness.Com design blog and with just a few changes i have it ready to go For Blogger.
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Google Update Page Rank Has Yours Increased ?

Google today updated their page rank (PR) or the so called toolbar page rank.Page rank is basically a signal of how important any given page is in Googles eyes.Page rank goes from 0 (zero) to 10 (Ten) with 10 being the highest thus the best.The page rank we see is called toolbar page rank as it was first displayed on the Google toolbar although there are many other ways to view it.In general people refer to their website or blog PR by the PR of the home page, but every single page on your blog will have it's own PR.More on Page rank can be found in this post from when i informed you of the last update in January - Google Page Rank Information and even more from the great Matt Cutts Here.

In this post i want to look at how the change effected My Blogs, What will an increase mean, How to check your blogs page rank and some tips on increasing your page rank.

Our Page Rank ?

The update was very kind to Spice Up Your Blog as it has jumped from PR3 to PR5, many posts have a page rank of 3-4 also.It is a small percentage of blogs that reach PR5 (Half way up the ladder)  so I'm delighted to achieve it and see my hard work pay off.As a large part of Page Rank is from people linking to a site i would like to thank everyone that links to us and hope you continue to do so.I actually got a bit of a surprise to see our Blogger template site BestBloggerTemplates.Net jumped from PR0 to PR3, considering the domain was only connected a few months ago (Was formally www.templates.spiceupyourblog.com) it's great.I have had other blogs also increase, my Social Icon site also jumped from PR0 to PR3.

What Will Increased Page Rank Do ?

When we talk about things like page rank it is important to remember it is just one signal.Spice Up Your Blog going from PR3 to PR5 does not necessarily indicate that i will see an instant increase in traffic from Google.It does show I'm heading in the right direction and performing well in search but many more factors come into play.

Check Your Blogs Page Rank

You can check your blogs current page rank with this Page Rank Checker (Do please ignore all the rubbish ads with offers to increase your page rank) let us know your results in the comments.

How Can You Increase Your Page Rank ?

Google use over 200 signals to determine Page Rank, some we know others are kept private.The main signal is backlinks, links Google find around the web pointing to your blog.If lots of people link to your blog it must be good, makes sense huh ? This post has more on the subject - Building Backlinks And Information To Increase Google Search Rank And Page Rank.Recent signals added to the google algorithms include Social Signals and Page Load Time.What you need to be doing is publishing Regular Good Unique content, Building Links to that content and staying patient allowing natural links to build.You can find lots of information and tools for this in our selection of Blogger SEO.

Let us know if your blogs page rank has changed in this update ?

Create Email Addresses Connected To Your Blogger Custom Domain Plus Access DNS Settings And More

This week we looked at using custom domains on Blogger Blogs, why you should get a custom domain and the steps to buy and connect a custom domain on Blogger.Those posts have been popular and I'm delighted to see many of you have took my advice and bought domains for your blog getting rid of the ugly blogspot.In those posts i mentioned Google Apps and how when you buy a domain through Blogger you get a free Google apps account.Google apps actually offer some great features that are all available to you once you buy your domain.Two of the main features of Google apps are the option to create Email addresses associated with the domain you bought.So you can create for example yourname @yourblog.com or info @yourblog.com and so on.Another feature of Google apps is the option to access your DNS or Domain Settings.So you can log into your domain host account and access things like Cname records.

In this video post i do my best to explain the whole process from accessing your Google apps account to creating multiple Emails connected to your domain, enjoy !

Google Apps Video Tutorial

That's it for this Blogger Tip, have to admit it was hard to explain so the video went a bit long (As did the title of the post :p).Luckily YouTube did take the full video so hopefully you have learned just some of the Google Apps features available to you.

Remember Google apps offer many many more features and we only touched on the basics, you should take 30 minutes when you get the chance to look through all it offers.The Google Apps Support center is a great place to start.

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Google Friend Connect Followers - How To Have A Standalone Follow Button

The Followers Gadget from Google Friend Connect is very popular and one of the most popular ways especially on Blogger for people to follow their favorite blogs.By default you can only add one followers gadget to your blog via 'Add A Gadget' so a few months ago i showed you how to have a second Google friend connect followers gadget on your blog in this post i will show you how to have a standalone Follow Button Or Text Link.So with this you can add the option to follow your blog beside Rss your Twitter and Facebook icons.You could also add it below your posts or other areas.
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The New Google +1 - Add All The Plus 1 Button Styles To Your Blog

Google have been experimenting with their +1 (Plus One) button for a while and today they released it for websites and blogs.The plus one button lets you recommend things you like to friends and they will see your recommendations in Google search results and over time in Ads and possibly other places.In search now you can see the plus one's of your friends, contacts from Gmail, Google Reader and Google Buzz.So it makes sense to allow readers to plus one your content and recommend it to their friends.Adding the button you your blog will give the readers the option to plus you up !

Live Demos - Here are the 4 styles of the +1 Button, They Work Try Them Out !

+1 In The Default Blogger Share Buttons

Blogger users will be happy to know if you have the default share buttons enabled the plus one button may already be on your blog.Below is a screenshot You can see them working on the home page of this blog.

If you don't have them enabled here are the instructions from Blogger Buzz -

To add the +1 button to your blog, you’ll need to enable Share buttons on Blogger. To do this, go to Design > Page Elements on your Blogger dashboard, find the Blog posts area, click on Edit, and select the “Show Share Buttons” option. If you are already using Share buttons, the +1 button will automatically show up as a new share option.



You know i was never a fan of the default blogger share buttons but this does give them some merit now.

Using +1 Anywhere On All Blogs

You can also grab a standalone button to use on your blog by visiting Google +1 For Webmasters.

There are 4 sizes of button to choose from once you choose you generate two snippets of code.The script with the message "Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag" goes directly before your blogs </head> tag and the second code goes were you want the button to appear.

Add Google +1 Above Posts, Below Posts On Blogger

Lets Look At Some Places You Can Add The +1 Button On Blogger.

You can go to the +1 for webmasters page to Get The Google +1 Button Codes but i have them here also.

Add The Script

The script only needs to be added once no matter how many times you add the button.The script is the snippet with the message "Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag" on the +1 for webmasters page.I also have it below :

Go to your blogs Design Page > Edit Html > Find the following piece of code in your blogs Html : (Click Ctrl and F for a search bar to help find the code - More Info)

</head>

Copy and paste the following code directly Above / Before </head> then save your template.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>

That's it the script is added now choose a button and add it as shown.

Small +1 Button



Small Button Code

<g:plusone size="small"></g:plusone>

Medium +1 Button



Medium Button Code

<g:plusone size="medium"></g:plusone>

Standard +1 Button



Standard Button Code

<g:plusone></g:plusone>

Tall +1 Button



Tall Button Code

<g:plusone size="tall"></g:plusone>

Add To Blogger Sidebar

On Blogger go to your Design Page > Click Add A Gadget > Choose Html/Javascript and paste in the code for the +1 button then save.

Add Above Posts On Blogger

On Blogger Go To Design > Edit Html > Tick Expand Widget Templates.

Find the following piece of code in your blogs Html : (Click Ctrl and F for a search bar to help find the code - More Info)

<div class='post-header-line-1'>

Paste your +1 button code Directly Below <div class='post-header-line-1'> the save your template.

Add Below Posts On Blogger

On Blogger Go To Design > Edit Html > Tick Expand Widget Templates.

Find the following piece of code in your blogs Html : (Click Ctrl and F for a search bar to help find the code - More Info)

<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>

Paste Your +1 Button Code Directly Below <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> then save your template.

That's Google +1, I like the concept but it remains to be seen how popular it will be and if it can challenge the similar Facebook and Twitter share buttons.

Drop Your Comments And Questions Below.

The New Google +1 - Add All The Plus 1 Button Styles To Your Blog

Google have been experimenting with their +1 (Plus One) button for a while and today they released it for websites and blogs.The plus one button lets you recommend things you like to friends and they will see your recommendations in Google search results and over time in Ads and possibly other places.In search now you can see the plus one's of your friends, contacts from Gmail, Google Reader and Google Buzz.So it makes sense to allow readers to plus one your content and recommend it to their friends.Adding the button you your blog will give the readers the option to plus you up !

Live Demos - Here are the 4 styles of the +1 Button, They Work Try Them Out !

+1 In The Default Blogger Share Buttons

Blogger users will be happy to know if you have the default share buttons enabled the plus one button may already be on your blog.Below is a screenshot You can see them working on the home page of this blog.

If you don't have them enabled here are the instructions from Blogger Buzz -

To add the +1 button to your blog, you’ll need to enable Share buttons on Blogger. To do this, go to Design > Page Elements on your Blogger dashboard, find the Blog posts area, click on Edit, and select the “Show Share Buttons” option. If you are already using Share buttons, the +1 button will automatically show up as a new share option.



You know i was never a fan of the default blogger share buttons but this does give them some merit now.

Using +1 Anywhere On All Blogs

You can also grab a standalone button to use on your blog by visiting Google +1 For Webmasters.

There are 4 sizes of button to choose from once you choose you generate two snippets of code.The script with the message "Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag" goes directly before your blogs </head> tag and the second code goes were you want the button to appear.

Add Google +1 Above Posts, Below Posts On Blogger

Lets Look At Some Places You Can Add The +1 Button On Blogger.

You can go to the +1 for webmasters page to Get The Google +1 Button Codes but i have them here also.

Add The Script

The script only needs to be added once no matter how many times you add the button.The script is the snippet with the message "Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag" on the +1 for webmasters page.I also have it below :

Go to your blogs Design Page > Edit Html > Find the following piece of code in your blogs Html : (Click Ctrl and F for a search bar to help find the code - More Info)

</head>

Copy and paste the following code directly Above / Before </head> then save your template.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>

That's it the script is added now choose a button and add it as shown.

Small +1 Button



Small Button Code

<g:plusone size="small"></g:plusone>

Medium +1 Button



Medium Button Code

<g:plusone size="medium"></g:plusone>

Standard +1 Button



Standard Button Code

<g:plusone></g:plusone>

Tall +1 Button



Tall Button Code

<g:plusone size="tall"></g:plusone>

Add To Blogger Sidebar

On Blogger go to your Design Page > Click Add A Gadget > Choose Html/Javascript and paste in the code for the +1 button then save.

Add Above Posts On Blogger

On Blogger Go To Design > Edit Html > Tick Expand Widget Templates.

Find the following piece of code in your blogs Html : (Click Ctrl and F for a search bar to help find the code - More Info)

<div class='post-header-line-1'>

Paste your +1 button code Directly Below <div class='post-header-line-1'> the save your template.

Add Below Posts On Blogger

On Blogger Go To Design > Edit Html > Tick Expand Widget Templates.

Find the following piece of code in your blogs Html : (Click Ctrl and F for a search bar to help find the code - More Info)

<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>

Paste Your +1 Button Code Directly Below <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> then save your template.

That's Google +1, I like the concept but it remains to be seen how popular it will be and if it can challenge the similar Facebook and Twitter share buttons.

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