How to Add an AddThis Share Button to Individual Blogger Blog Posts

Adding the AddThis share button to individual blog posts enables your readers to easily bookmark you blog and share your links with a potentially huge number of people. Today's Tips & Tricks for Blogger blogs post will instruct you in how to add an AddThis share button to individual Blogger blog posts.

Social bookmarking is an effective tool for those promoting an online business or blog. To encourage readers to promote your site you should add a share button to individual blog posts. The AddThis share button is a popular one because it's neat and compact, yet provides links to hundreds of social bookmarking sites.

You can choose from a number of AddThis share buttons, each with a slightly different design. It is also possible to receive tracking reports, displaying your button's performance. These reports act as a helpful guide when working out your stats and trying to determine the most beneficial promotional techniques, but are by no means necessary. For the tracking service you must register with an email address, but untracked buttons require no registration.

How to Add an AddThis Share Button to Individual Blogger Blog Posts

• Visit the AddThis website.
• If you desire tracking reports create an AddThis account, and follow these instructions.
• Select Blogger (or whichever blogging platform you use), and choose your button. There are more options available if the four shown aren't suitable.
• Click 'Get Your Button,' and scroll down to Blog Post Button instructions.
• At this point you may further customise the look of your button, by clicking on Customize AddThis, at the bottom of the page (or use the link I just provided).
• Copy the code.
• Log into your Blogger dasboard and click 'Layout,' and 'Edit HTML.'
• Download a copy of your template as it is currently, in case you make a mistake.
• Check the small 'Expand Widgets Template' box to the upper right of your blog's HTML template.
• Scroll approximately halfway down your HTML template and paste the code into the area shown in the following image (click on image for a close-up view).

• Click 'Save Template,' and you're done!

You should now be able to see the AddThis share button at the bottom of each published blog post. If the AddThis share button doesn't appear as planned simply upload the original template and start again, making sure you paste the code in the correct place.