How to add Facebook social bookmarking icon and script to your Blogger articles

SEO Tip - How to add Facebook social bookmarking icon and script to your Blogger articles:

I was determined to discover how to achieve this, given the popularity explosion over Facebook. Testament to this is the fact that the BBC now add a similar bookmarking function on all their online news stories.

It's taken a while to get it working by a lot of trial and error, but now that it works, I'm determined to share 'how to' with you.

I've had to create images of the code just to avoid a lot of tedious open and close bracket typing so watch out when typing in the code yourself.

Firstly, you'll need to go to your template in Blogger and edit template. Back up your present version first (just in case) and then expand widgets to show all the code.

Next you'll need to scroll down the code until you find 'quick edit pencil' (see example below).


Enter the additional lines of code as shown.

Next, you'll need to enter this script after the close bracket:


Finally, you'll need to close bracket the span e.g. /span (inside open and close brackets)

Now all you need to do is replace the line - http://purple13.blogspot.com with your own blogs URL.

Save changes - it should validate ok. If it doesn't, go back and check you've not missed a bracket etc and try again.

That's it. An easy way to add a Facebook social bookmarking widget to your individual blog articles.

Comments and links to appreciated. Feel free to use the image url or create your own.

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