How to add social follow button to your blogger blog, the easy/simple way

One common thing among new bloggers using the blogger platform is their unending quest to have a facebook like/twitter follow buttons on their blog. but this feature has not been added by google yet and I don't think they ever will (thinking competition-wise), they have their own social network, Google plus so giving you that functionality would be a dumb thing from them. This makes bloggers to adopt various means of adding the like buttons to their blog, one of which I will talk about in this article.

Social networking gives you the ability to network with other bloggers and promote your Blogger website. You must have a social networking image for each of your accounts. You can make your own or download free images to use in your Blogger posts. Blogger has a "Gadgets" section you use to add a new content panel on the blog, which is where you place the social networking buttons. see the steps below:

• Upload your social networking button images to your website directory. Each Web host has its own upload software, so uploading images is dependent on your Web host. After you upload the images, take note of the image name and the directory in which you store the image.

• Open a Web browser and log in to your Blogger dashboard. Click "Design" to view a list of options. Click the "Add Gadget" button to add a new Blogger gadget.

• Click the "HTML/JavaScript" option. A "Content" text box opens, which is where you add your social networking buttons.

• Add a link to each of your social networking accounts using the button image you uploaded earlier. For instance, the following code links a Twitter account using an image named "twitter.jpg:" <a href="http://www.twitter.com/twittername"><img src="/folder/twitter.jpg"></a> In this example, the account linked is "twittername." Replace this name with your own and replace the image's "src" property with the directory and name of your social networking image.

• Click "Save" to save the changes. Open your blog in another browser tab to view the new social networking button. Click the button to verify that it leads to your account.