HOW TO: TwittLink Retweet, Fast Share counter for Blogs
Dont complain about Twitter Information overload already! Well bloggers wont complain until they have a Twitter Traffic pool to dive into. The next question is how to promote your blog? Well there are so many ways to do it, but a retweet button has to be top of your blogging agenda.
Previous months we had written about how to add Tweetmeme, and BackTweet retweet counters to your Blogger / WordPress Blogs
Now introducing TwittLink, Wait! Its not a replica of Tweetmeme , Backtweet, or retweet.com widget. You will then see a TwittLink tab on the left hand side of your page, clicking on this tab pops open a full Twitter client. Then all you have to do is authenticate yourself via OAuth, you can then tweet from here, see your followers updates, see tweets about that particular site. In short you can do everything possible!
And clicking on it launches the TwittLink widget instead of opening a popup widnow to your twitter page like tweetmeme does. So this makes your blog reader stay at your website/ blog, as they will never have to leave your page. It looks to be an exact copy of Tweetmeme’s popular button, but it’s in orange instead of green.
Usage for a web page/ Blogger Blog:
Please login into your Blogger Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML and check the “Expand Widget Templates” option.Now as a precautionary measure please download your template so that you have an emergency backup if in case you create any errors.
Firstly Locate this code in your blogger template.
<data:post.body/>
And then copy and paste the below code just above the data:post.body tag to integrate the big retweet button
For a compact version, choose the one below.
If you’re smart enough you can set your own parameters.
tl_title = “your title”;
tl_url = “you url”;
tl_source = “your twitter account”;
</script>
<script src=”http://www.twittlink.com/tools/button_b.js” type=”text/javascript”/></script>
That’s all to integrate this button within your blog. Now Do some good deed and drop a comment with a Thank you note.
If this widget isnt impressive then try some other stylish retweet buttons.
How to add Tweetmeme Retweet counter widget to blogs.
Custom Backtype Tweetcount Retweet Widget to your Blog
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6 Comments
Sudha
10.08.2009
This widget really seems interesting! as it makes the blog readers stay on the blog unless like the other retweeting widgets!
Grazina
10.09.2009
A big thank you from the Land Down Under
Installed on my Worpress blog using a plugin in two minutes.
I have a problem installing it on my Blogger though; I get a message:
We were unable to save your template
Please correct the error below, and submit your template again.
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The element type "div" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "
As I know dick about programming and HTML I don't even understand what the error is about.
Help!
GA
cheth
10.09.2009
The codes are tested and worked fine on my blog.
why don't you try using a float div and align to the right… and also convert the code by pasting here…
http://elliotswan.com/postable let me know if this method works for you.
Anubhuti Srivastava
10.14.2009
hey thanks a ton.. that was very useful…
Lordy
04.19.2010
Very relevant article. Great work
Shreyasi
04.20.2010
Finally This worked for me. easy to customise more than tweetmeme retweet counter.
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