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How To Add The Google +1 Button To Your Site

How to add Google +1 to any websiteAbout the Google Plus 1 button

Google is currently in the process of releasing a new feature to their search results and ads called Google +1 (‘Google Plus 1′).  This new service will put a small button next to all search results and ads on a Google search page.  This allows you to curate search results and ads for friends, family, and the entire web by clicking +1 on results or ads you find useful.

“…+1 is shorthand for “this is pretty cool” or “you should check this out.” Let visitors recommend your pages right in Google search results and help your site stand out.…”

This is the equivalent of the ‘Like’ button on Facebook but on a much larger scale.   You will potentially be able to +1 anything you find in Google, and soon there will be a +1 link on many web pages just like the ‘Tweet This’ and ‘Like’ buttons are now.  This is going to make the entire web more social and best of all, once this is more widely adopted, you will start to get very relevant information whenever you do a web search in Google from people you trust instead of Google Page Rank.

See the Google +1 button in action on the left side of this page. Go ahead, click it!

How to implement the Google Plus 1 button

Adding Google’s +1 button to your site is fairly simple. You can make it anywhere from basic to using additional features of the button. For beginners, you can accomplish this in 5 steps:

  1. Go to Google’s +1 button creator
  2. Select the size button you wish to use (you can select the different ones and preview it on the right hand side)
  3. Select a language
  4. Copy the generated code
  5. Paste the code into your website HTML wherever you desire to show the button

Below is an example of what a basic page HTML would look like with the +1 button:

{code type=html}

+1 demo: Basic page

/g:plusone

{/code}

 

For any of the advanced users, you can use additional configuration parameters found at Google’s +1 Button API. By default, the button +1’s whichever page it is on unless you specify another url within the button code parameters.