There a lots of ways and platforms to promote your blog in order to get traffic. But the first blog promotion starts from your blog posts itself. You should design your posts with all necessary blogger social bookmarking icons, so that people can spread it’s reach using different web services. There are different buttons that you can use on your blogger posts like Digg, Yahoo! Buzz, StumbleUpon, Mixx, Twitter etc. Here I’m going to show you the tutorial to add a Twitter or Retweet button to your blogger blog posts. Yes, you can use Twitter to promote your blog and you will not only get some followers to your Twitter account but will also get decent traffic to your blog.
If someone likes your post, he can click on the Retweet button to post the topic with it’s URL in his twitter account and all his followers would get notified about this. This is the simple yet effective way to promote your blog posts on twitter. There are two types of Retweet buttons available to insert in your blogger posts. One is the most common sized and another one is the small sized. Look at the below screenshot.
How to Add Twitter (Retweet) Button to Blogger Posts
Login to your blogger dashboard.
Navigate to Layout >> Edit HTML >> Expand Widget Templates
Search for <data:post.body/> and paste the following codes just before or after it. Adding the code before <data:post.body/> will show the Retweet button on the top of your post while adding after <data:post.body/> will show the Rettweet button on the bottom of your post.
For Digg like Button, use the following code.
<script type="text/javascript">
tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>';
</script>Retweet this button on every post blogger
<script src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>For Compact sized button, use these codes.
<script type="text/javascript">
tweetmeme_style = "compact";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script>Now if you want align it to the right, use the above code in the following way.
<div style='float:right; margin-left:10px;'>
>>>>Retweet Button Code Here<<<<
</div>Similarly if you want to align it to the left, use the above codes in this way.
<div style='float:right; margin-left:10px;'>
>>>>Retweet Button Code Here<<<<
</div>You are done now. Now all your blogger posts will have a Twitter button or Retweet button. If you face any problems, use the below comments section to seek help.
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Thanks dear, you explain at easy way
I put up the retweet button at the end of my posts ( http://joblounge.blogspot.com ). Is there a way to get the button to be flush left after each post, instead of immediately after the last word in the post?
BTW, thank you for the instructions. I retweeted them.
@ Susan : Such a lovely blog there. Impressive
You can add a < br / > (without space) tag before the twitter code. Adding a line break will force the button to create a new line and get aligned to left. However, if you want to get the most out of this button, try showing it on the top of the post.
That worked. Thank you.
It seems the retweet goes to the tweetmeme site, not to a person’s followers. Is that right?
Again, thank you!
Thanks a lot working good in my blog
Thanks for making it in simple code
It works great!! I was actually looking for this for some time now.
Thanks!
Great work …. i was always using the the ending up with twitter widget on my blog which looked very erroneous..but now i am on 9th cloud
Great post. Very helpful.
How do you add “RT @username”?
Hi. I’m not really an expert in this kind of thing, but I think I know how to add “RT @username” I’ve tried a thousand times, and this is the code I came up with:
tweetmeme_url = '';
tweetmeme_source = ‘username’;
This works for me. Just put this code before OR after and I guarantee yours will work fine too.
Just thought I should help, even though this comment had been posted over a year ago.
Or in other words (since I just realized that I can’t put up a code in here), you can just add
tweetmeme_source = ‘username’;
right after
tweetmeme_url = ”
in the aforementioned code. Just as simple as that.
I have 3 in my template. Should I add the code in front of each or just the first one?
Thanks again.
@ Osman : If you are talking about <data:post.body/> code, then just check your template again. All templates have this code only once.
Many thanks!
Thank you. I’d been trying to do that all night, then found your clear instructions!
Did not work well at all. The functionality was there but it counts all the “retweets” and gives the same number for every post. Not at all how it’s suppose to work.
This is a great site. Thanks for the information on how to add retweet this button to blogger.
@ Sozo : Follow all the steps carefully and it should work normally.
cool~nice share!!
It Isnt working friend.
Tried Many times =(
Thanks very much, I like the compact style
Hi! I wanted to put retweet button on left side on my blog but… I have a problem coz I see that your left and right code look the same. Could you help me with this?
Maybe would be better if you could email me.
You explained it quickly and it is very easy to apply. Good job!
Thanks I was searching for it and find it on your site thanks again.
thanks a lot your blog has done so much for my blogspot.
i don’t know how to pay you but to say a BIG THANK YOU.
keep the good work.
my blog is all about online marketing and free ways to make money online
good post but i thought you have to post your tweet on your twitter account.
It works like a charm… thanks…
the brief explanation was just great. i successfully installed it on my blog. thanks.
Great trick .. I added it to my blogger
wen i installed d code the retweet buttons comes inside the post
Hi,
Compact button looks grate, but its showing the results for the site, not individual posts (eg every post shows the same number).
Can anyone offer any suggestions please?
Ta!
@ Oliver : Add the following piece of code just below the first line of the code:
managed to add it but keeps saying already retweeted and all the numbers are the same for each post
your instructions were so easy and effective – thank you so much!
Thanks for your clear instructions. I have put mine at the top of each post but need to make the line of type in my post line break; how do i do this?
Thanks
Never mind, i put a to fix the problem. Thanks again.
When I install this on my blog and click ‘retweet’, the tweet that is generated displays the name of my blog, instead of the name of the post. How can I fix this?
I guess you have to edit your blog template as you could have edited it to show your blog name instead of the actual post name as the page title.
Thanks, but that isn’t quite it. The retweet is supposed to read
“post title | blog title http://bit.ly/…”
My retweet only reads
“| blog title http://bit.ly/…”
Since I am not fluent in html, what should I look for and edit to insert the “post title”?
Can you please provide the link to your blog so that I can try to find out the issue..
Thank you for your generous offer, great service! However, in the meantime I’ve got it figured out.
Now, I’m very happy with my retweet button. Thanks a million!
erik–
can you tell me how you were able to fix this prob so i can try to fix it on my blog too?? are you able to get the retweet to be for that one post only and not for the whole blog? and are you able to set it up so that the retweet comes from the person retweeting and NOT from “tweetmeme”? thanks!!
hi! i am having the same prob that erik had in the way that the name of the blog post is not showing up in the retweet only the name of my whole blog is showing up. any ideas?
thx!
I was having trouble trying to add a twitter button or banner (or whatever works) to my blog post, without editing every single post (what is a enormous work). I’ve tried add ons, codes, etc. Nothing worked.
Until I came here. Worked at the first try, I’ve added and aligned to right my twitter button, just following what Bapun said.
Thanks a lot
PS: I saw you added adsense between lines in your post. You covered this issue at your blog? (I’m new here)
Thanks again!
Glad to know that this worked for you.
The adsense ad within the post is being served by a WordPress plugin but there is a code for Blogger blogs that can be used to display ads in the middle of the post automatically. I will make a post on this soon.
Hey,
I did everything in your post but I keep getting a retweet button with a question mark and it redirects me to a tweetmeme page. What am I doing wrong?
tweetmeme_url = '';
Retweet this button on every post blogger
I posted my code in my last comment, but apparentely it was ignored :\
Never mind, the explanation for the question mark problem is simple: the page has a lot of content, so I guess tweetmeme fails to retrieve the data it needs. I tried the button in a one-word post and it works perfectly.
Thanks a lot for this code
HiI would love to know about your floating toolbar – will you create a post for it? – would love to see one that you can put on the right hand side.
It’s a WordPress plugin that works on self-hosted wordpress blogs only. Unfortunately there is no hack for Blogger yet.
finally added this on my blog,.. was searching for it on google,.. guess what ur blog was on the top of the list….thanks a lot for the share
I ‘m not sure but I think that when I tried it it worked. Now I have 2 problems. The first is that the button appears to even to pages of my blogger, (which I don’t want that, I want only to new posts) and second question : What should I do to tweet the name of the post and not the name of my site?
Hey. Thanx for the info. It was really helpful.
The retweet only display the name of my blog and the link to the article while it should show the name of the article too…
What’s wrong ?
What should i add to the retweet script ? Something like post title ? But how ?
Thanks.
I’m adding this scirpt:
tweetmeme_url = ”;
Thanks
Hey Buddy, can you prepare a code that will not show that retweet counter number! Just that retweet link will be fine!
Cheerz!
Short and sweet..Thank you dear..