Add Twitter/Facebook share button to your Orble blog
March 18th 2010 23:35
Hi all,
Just a quick post tonight to explain how to add a Twitter share button to your Orble blog. I know some don't see the value of Twitter and some love it, but I honestly believe that Twitter can be a really solid traffic source. There are several main ways to get visitors from Twitter to your site or blog. Most are manual, ie you have to manually promote your blog/site via your tweets or profile. This way of promoting on Twitter requires no donkey work provided you offer valuable information.
If you are a good writer or provide solid content on your blog people love to share it. So instead of expecting Twitter users to manually log into their Twitter, compose a tweet (which can be hard with only 140 characters), then send it to followers make sure you have a one button solution. All my recent posts on Orble have a button to share my post via Twitter and it has increased traffic.
Heres how:
Go to Addthis and you are presented with 3 questions and a confirmation:
1) Select Your Service
I answered website which works fine with Orble
2) Select Your Button Style
I chose the third one down, which shows Twitter/Facebook icons
3) Analystics
I chose no, just give me the button
4) You're done with a block that says "Get Your Button"
Once you see this, just copy what's in the rectangular box to the left. Save it somewhere convenient. Every time you post a blog post paste this code at the end with before the text and after it
It really is that simple, and whenever a Twitter or Facebook user enjoys one of your posts they can share it with friends with only 2 clicks.
I hope this has helped, please feel free to contact me if you require extra info
Chris
Just a quick post tonight to explain how to add a Twitter share button to your Orble blog. I know some don't see the value of Twitter and some love it, but I honestly believe that Twitter can be a really solid traffic source. There are several main ways to get visitors from Twitter to your site or blog. Most are manual, ie you have to manually promote your blog/site via your tweets or profile. This way of promoting on Twitter requires no donkey work provided you offer valuable information.
If you are a good writer or provide solid content on your blog people love to share it. So instead of expecting Twitter users to manually log into their Twitter, compose a tweet (which can be hard with only 140 characters), then send it to followers make sure you have a one button solution. All my recent posts on Orble have a button to share my post via Twitter and it has increased traffic.
Heres how:
Go to Addthis and you are presented with 3 questions and a confirmation:
1) Select Your Service
I answered website which works fine with Orble
2) Select Your Button Style
I chose the third one down, which shows Twitter/Facebook icons
3) Analystics
I chose no, just give me the button
4) You're done with a block that says "Get Your Button"
Once you see this, just copy what's in the rectangular box to the left. Save it somewhere convenient. Every time you post a blog post paste this code at the end with before the text and after it
It really is that simple, and whenever a Twitter or Facebook user enjoys one of your posts they can share it with friends with only 2 clicks.
I hope this has helped, please feel free to contact me if you require extra info
Chris
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Comment by Market Newbie
Gizmo Peek
Stock Market Punk
I followed your tips here up to the point where I have to paste the code in my blog... Uh..., where did you say we should paste that code? I tried it right at the bottom of my post and checked it on preview. It didn't work. Needless to say, I know next to nothing on these matters.
Additional help?
Thanks.
Comment by Chris Collings
Poker Pro Blog
KB Dollars
Freelance Online Work
Just followed exactly the same steps again myself and now the button doesn't seem to work. Here is the code I am using on my blog, you can copy and paste because it's generic:
<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->
<
<a Really Long Link class="addthis_button_compact ">Share</a>
<span class="addthis_separator">|</ span>
<a class="addthis_button_faceboo k"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_myspace "></a>
<a class="addthis_button_google" ></a>
<a class="addthis_button_twitter "></a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" Really Long Link
<!-- AddThis Button END -->
Make sure you enclose it the code in Orble html tags
Just insert the code at the bottom of your post. Hope this helps.
Please let me know how you get on.
Chris