I was bouncing around the net trying to find some easy, “Copy and Paste”, code to add Sociable type functionality to my Blogger blog and had little luck locating code that actually did what it said it would. So I set to the task of writing something that would.

Below is some simple code you can copy and paste into your Blogger template to add the following group of social networks to your Blogger web sites.

Socialize this post

Step by step directions

1. Access your Blogger dashboard and click on the layout tab. Select the, “Edit HTML“, sub tab.

2. Make sure, “Expand Widget Templates“, is selected. You can also revert to your defaulted widget template by clicking the revert button on the bottom.

3. Look for the following strip of code in your template.

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'/>

4. Past the code below after this tag and hit preview.

Copy And Paste Sociable Code For Blogger

<br /> <strong>Socialize this post</strong><br /> <a expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=3&url=" + data:post.url' target='_blank'><img src="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r181/lukeslytalker/digg.png" title="Digg It" alt="digg How Do I Add Sociable Buttons to my Blogger Template?" /></a> <a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img src="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r181/lukeslytalker/delicious.png" title="Del.icio.us" alt="delicious How Do I Add Sociable Buttons to my Blogger Template?" /></a> <a expr:href='"http://technorati.com/faves/naterati?add=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img src="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r181/lukeslytalker/technorati.png" title="Technorati" alt="technorati How Do I Add Sociable Buttons to my Blogger Template?" /></a> <a expr:href='"http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img src="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r181/lukeslytalker/stumbleupon.png" title="Stumble Post" alt="stumbleupon How Do I Add Sociable Buttons to my Blogger Template?" /></a> <a expr:href='"http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?u=" + data:post.url + "&t=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Furl'><img src="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r181/lukeslytalker/furl.png" title="Furl It" alt="furl How Do I Add Sociable Buttons to my Blogger Template?" /></a> <a expr:href='"http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?url=" + data:post.url + "&title= " + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Spurl'><img src="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r181/lukeslytalker/spurl.png" title="Spurl" alt="spurl How Do I Add Sociable Buttons to my Blogger Template?" /></a> <a expr:href='"http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u=" + data:post.url + "&=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Yahoo web'> <img src="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r181/lukeslytalker/yahoomyweb.png" title="My Yahoo" alt="yahoomyweb How Do I Add Sociable Buttons to my Blogger Template?" /></a>

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Here’s an animated gif I made from screen captures from my whos.amung.us widget page. This is the direct result from my round of submissions to social networks. Keep in mind this is within minutes of my final submission of this post. I had particularly good luck with Digg, Reddit, Simpy and Stumbleupon.

The Sociable Plugin For Wordpress

I recently started a pretty consistent round of social networking submissions after each post. Hence the boost in traffic. It was cool to watch the different countries hit. I peaked out at 199, however this is the first time I’ve used whos.amung.us immediately after a submission. So I’ll be trying this again very soon.

I just upgraded my Sociable plugin to 2.5.2. It basically offers more social networks. I’ve been having pretty good luck with my current list though. That’d be the ones below high-lighted in blue.

Click on the image below for a larger screen shot and complete list of social networks currently supported by Sociable.

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