Blogger introduced the Followers gadget in late August 2008 and it was a great success. You could instantly sign up to follow a blog and read the updates in The Reading List on your Dashboard and in your Google Reader.
In February 2009 they began the process of integrating the gadget with Google Friend Connect. While Followers was restricted to Blogger with Friend Connect you can follow any site or blog that has Friend Connect in it. You can use any one Google account, a Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account to follow sites or blogs.
One little known feature of Friend Connect or Followers gadget is that you can submit the page you are on to any social networking site. Thus there is no need to add separate social networking icons below each post. To do this just click "Invite Your Friends" link in the Followers/Friend Connect gadget on the site you are on. See arrow in picture below :
This will open a popup window. Click the Share tab in the popup window as shown in picture below :
Click on the link for any of the following social networks :
- MySpace
- del.icio.us
- Digg
- Fark
- StumbleUpon
- Live Spaces
- Mixx
- Buzz Up!
- Technorati
- FriendFeed
- Propeller
- Newsvine
- Xanga
- Blinklist
- Furl
- Magnolia
- Blogmarks
- Slashdot
- Faves
- Simpy
- Yigg
- Current
- Meneame
- Diigo
- Funp
- Hugg
- Kirtsy
- Sphinn
- Dealspl.us
You will be prompted to login and once you have Registered or logged in just click Submit to Share what you are looking at with all your friends. You can do this to Twitter or Digg your own posts and thus increase traffic to them.
2 comments:
Great Article for all Bloggers!
I was curious if this could be done!
thnks fo great article...
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