5 Ways to Integrate Google Buzz With Your Blog
Interested in integrating Google Buzz into your blog? Google’s new social network does a great job of letting you encourage readers to share your blog’s content. Unfortunately, until it gets more popular Buzz might not be included in many of the social media button sets and plugins that are available for most blogging platforms. Luckily, with the right plugins, modules and extensions, you can help your readers share your posts through Buzz or even send your own Buzz updates right to your blog. Read on for some options to integrate Google Buzz into the blogging software you already use.
1. Adding a Google Buzz Button in Wordpress
One of the first things most people will want to see when using Google Buzz is an option to use buzz to easily share the content of your post. The good news is there are already a wide variety of options available for adding a Google Buzz button to Wordpress blog posts. Installation is just like any Wordpress plugin: all you need to do is upload the downloaded plugin to the wp-content/plugins folder on your server and then activate and customise it from your admin area.
2. Adding a Google Buzz Button in Blogger
If you are interested in adding a Buzz button to your Blogger posts, it will be slightly more complicated than the Wordpress option. Luckily, there’s an easy-to-understand and reasonably generic plugin that looks good available for Blogger hosted blogs. To install the plugin, you’ll need to copy a little bit of code and paste it into a specific place in your Blogger template, which means you can integrate Google Buzz in minutes!
3. Setting Up a Google Buzz Button in Joomla
One of the best things about Joomla is how easy it is to add a wide variety of extensions to customise how your Joomla site looks and functions. There’s no exception when it comes to integrating Google Buzz, with several options for integrated buttons and links that allow your readers to quickly and easily share your content with their followers in an intuitive manner.
4. Setting Up a Google Buzz Button in Drupal
The active development community around the open source Drupal content management system made it likely that a Google Buzz button would show up fast – and as predicted, it did. Drupal has a standard button integrated into the main package already, with plans to include a count feature in the near future.
5. Adding Google Buzz to Your Blog’s Sidebar
Giving your readers a way to use Google Buzz to share your content with friends is great, but it may also be useful to post your own Buzz feed on the sidebar of your blog or website to help build a sense of community and allow your readers to easily interact with you. While some of the content management systems listed in this post don’t offer this feature (at the time of writing), there are a few that are currently available for Joomla and an equivalent Wordpress plugin.
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Tom Walker is an editor, designer and social marketer who works for an online specialist offering cartridges next day for business and home users in the UK. Much of his time is spent writing and editing posts on their blog about print media and advertising, CreativeCloud.
I am not so please with this post as I was looking for exact way to add “Google Buzz” to my blog.
I have a blogger blog but u just limit your words with a few words “here’s an easy-to-understand and reasonably generic plugin that looks good available for Blogger hosted blogs. To install the plugin, you’ll need to copy a little bit of code and paste it into…..” There is nothing new what u said in this part of post and at the end of whole post I didn’t find exact way to place buzz to my blog.
Sorry for harsh words but I expect more from you..
Good Luck..
Manish, you gotta click the links above – each subtitle is a link. Hope this helps.