How to Add Google Buzz Button to Your Blog

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With all the hype about Google Buzz lately, I can’t get away without a post about it, can I? If you lived under a rock the last week, you might want to check what Google Buzz is here.

I personally don’t like Google Buzz (yet), but many people do, so I figured I’d make a post on how to install Google Buzz button on your blog. The installation is pretty simple, really.

Add Google Buzz to Wordpress blog

Wordpress users have it the easy way. Simply install one of the available plugins. Go to you Wordpress dashboard, in the menu select plugins, click add new and search for google buzz. Or download and install manually one of the below.

Google Buzz Button
Simple plugin, offers a little customization like changing the location and size of the button.
WP Google-buzz
Is pretty much the same as the above, but with more buttons to choose from.
WP-buzzer
Offers more customization than previous two, like where the button should appear (pages, posts, home page) and you can change its CSS.

Add Google Buzz to Blogger blog

I do not use Blogger, obviously, so I couldn’t test it, but the following should work. You’ll have to add some code to your template. I found this guide on how to add Google Buzz button to Blogger/Blogspot blog here.

Sign in to your blogger blog and go to
Dashboard -> Layout -> Edit HTML
Find the following code
<div class='post-header-line-1'/>
and paste the following code below it according to button size.
- For large button:
<a href='javascript:var%20b=document.body;var%20GR________bookmarklet_domain="http://www.google.com";if(b&&!document.xmlVersion){void(z=document.createElement("script"));void(z.src="http://www.google.com/reader/ui/link-bookmarklet.js");void(b.appendChild(z));}else{}'><img alt='Buzz this' src='http://img2.pict.com/15/da/3e/2809374/0/googlebuzz.png'/></a>
- For compact button:
<a href='javascript:var%20b=document.body;var%20GR________bookmarklet_domain="http://www.google.com";if(b&&!document.xmlVersion){void(z=document.createElement("script"));void(z.src="http://www.google.com/reader/ui/link-bookmarklet.js");void(b.appendChild(z));}else{}'><img alt='Buzz this' src='http://img2.pict.com/9c/09/57/2854010/0/buzzthis.gif'/></a>