Google has been the house of innovations and certainly in no sense it would want to behind its largest competitor as of now Facebook. Facebook social plugin developers have brought in lots of things which can be used by site developers and bloggers to connect their site with facebook. Google in counter to Facebook has released the google +1 which is certainly made a breaking news.
Just after hours after the release of the button it could be seen live on many big blogs and sites like the Mashable and others. You can add one as well
Steps to add Google +1
1) For wordpress:
- Place the following code in your head tag i.e within <head> & </head>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js”></script>
- Now place the tag you want accoring to the size in your single.php file
For small Button:
<g:plusone size=”small”></g:plusone> //Size:15px
For Medium Button:
<g:plusone size=”medium”></g:plusone> //Size:20px
For Tall Button:
<g:plusone size=”tall”></g:plusone> //Size:60px
For Standard Button:
<g:plusone ></g:plusone> //size:24px
2) For Blogger:
- Go to Edit HTML and search for head tag and past the following code
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js”></script>
- Now serach for <div class=”post-header-line-1″/> or<data:post.body/> and paste the following code immediately
<div style=’float:right; margin-right:10px;’>
<g:plusone expr:href=’data:post.url’></g:plusone>
</div>
- Save the template
Google is trying their best to provide better search experience for its users and this another move for it. Who knows, may be in the future Google may add this data’s to their search ranking algorithm too.