How To Add Floating Social Media (Google +1, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon) Buttons On Blogger

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Why do we need these social media Facebook, Twitter, Google +1, Digg, StumbleUpon buttons? Social media is a great way to drive more traffic to your sites. Get these buttons means that you will have a better chance to make your site become popular.


In this tutorial I will show you the way to add floating these buttons to your blogger. All you need to do is following these simple steps:

1. Go to Dashboard>Design>Edit HTML and search for <head>
2. Paste this code just below it and save your template. Note: Google +1 button only works when you disable default share buttons in “Blog Posts” widget

<script src=’http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js’ type=’text/javascript’> {lang: &#39;en-US&#39;} </script>


3. Go to Design>Page Elements, click Add a gadget, then choose HTML/JavaScript

4. Paste this code inside it

<style>#floatingbuttons{background:#F9F9F9;background:-webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0, #fff), color-stop(1, #F9F9F9));background:-moz-linear-gradient(top, #fff, #F9F9F9);border:1px solid #ccc;float:left;padding:0 0 3px 0;position:fixed;bottom:15%;left:0;z-index:10;border-radius:0 5px 5px 0;box-shadow:2px 2px 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);} #floatingbuttons .floatbutton{float:left;clear:both;margin:5px 4px 0 4px;} .addbuttons{clear:both;text-align:center;padding-top:5px;} .addbuttons a span.getfloat, .addbuttons a span.sharebuttons{color:#000;background:none;font-family:arial, sans-serif;display:block;font-size:9px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;line-height:11px;} .addbuttons a:hover span{color:#fff;background:none;text-decoration:underline;}</style>
<div id=’floatingbuttons’ title=”Share this post!”><script src=”http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″></script><script type=”text/javascript”> (function() { var s = document.createElement(‘SCRIPT’), s1 = document.getElementsByTagName(‘SCRIPT’)[0]; s.type = ‘text/javascript’; s.async = true; s.src = ‘http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js’; s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1); })(); </script><!– Medium Button –><script src=’http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js’ type=”text/javascript”></script>

<div class=’floatbutton’ id=’faceboo
k’><fb:like layout=”box_count” show_faces=”false” font=””></fb:like></div>

<div class=’floatbutton’ id=’google+1′><g:plusone size=”tall”></g:plusone></div>

<div class=’floatbutton’ id=’stumbleupon’><script src=”http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=5″></script></div>

<div class=’floatbutton’ id=’digg’><a class=”DiggThisButton DiggMedium”></a></div>

<div class=’floatbutton’ id=’twitter’><a href=”http://twitter.com/share” class=”twitter-share-button” data-count=”vertical” >Tweet</a></div>

<div class=”addbuttons”><a href=”http://www.blogtipsntricks.com/2011/07/how-to-add-floating-social-media-google.html” title=”Add floating social media share buttons to your blog!”><span class=”getfloat”>Get buttons</span></a> </div> </div>


5. Save your widget, refresh your blog. Now you can see the widget.

 <==The left sidebar of this page is an illustration

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