Top 10 Ways to Add Google Buzz Buttons and Widgets


Google Buzz, a new way to share (publicly with the world or privately to a small group of friends) updates, photos, videos and more, and start conversations about the things you find interesting. As of now, Picasa, Flickr, Google Reader, YouTube, Blogger, and Twitter are currently integrated with Google buzz. Bloggers and webmasters can increase social communication and internet traffic by adding a simple Google Buzz Buttons or widgets of their choice. Below are the 10 ways to integrate Google Buzz Button on wordpress or Blogger blog.

Adding Google Buzz button on Blogger Blog

In order to add, insert or embedd Google Buzz button on Blogger blogspot blog follow the simple steps listed below.
Step #1 Login to your Blogger Account and navigate to Layout > Edit HTML and Expand your widget templates.
Step #2 Search or the following code.

< div class='post-header-line-1'/>

Step #3 Copy the code below and paste it just after the code snippet (in step 2). But make sure that you add the url of the image

< div style="float:right;padding:4px;">
< a expr:href='&quot;http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title + &quot;&amp;srcTitle=&quot; + data:blog.title+ &quot;&amp;srcURL=&quot; + data:blog.homepageUrl ' rel='nofolloW' style='text-decoration:none;' target='_blank'>
< img alt='Buzz It' src=‘ENTER THE PATH WHERE IMAGE IS HOSTED’ style='border:0px;'/></a>
< /div>

Plugins to add or insert Google Buzz button on WordPress Blog

1) Google Buzz Button WordPress Plugin

Google Buzz Button WordPress Plugin by clickon5 allows you to add or integrate Google Buzz Bookmark button to your WordPress posts/pages. The plugin also lets you insert Google Buzz button manually before or after the content. As shown in screenshot above you can also specify the Google Buzz icon’s height and width.
2) WP Google-buzz WordPress plugin

Easily integrates Google buzz button before or after post content to self hosted wordpress blog. The plugin provides you with 11 different Google buzz images with mouse over effect. But make sure that you have set up Google Reader and included that in your Connected Sites on Buzz. It optionally allows you to add rel="nofollow" option for buzz links.
3) WPBuzzer WordPress Plugin

Easily integrates and adds a Google buzz button on posts, pages, Home page or RSS feed of your wordpress powered blog. The plugin provides you with number of options- You can set the target for the button (a new window or a popup) along with the CSS style. You can also choose to use a small or large button. WpBuzzer allows you to track share counts using your Bit.ly API key and login.
4) Google buzz this Button

The Google Buzz button easily allows your blog to be shared. Using this Google Buzz plugin you are able add the Google Buzz button in your post and excerpt. You can customize the CSS as per your requirement. Google Buzz has easy to use admin panel providing you to customize Google buzz button easily.
5) Simple Buzz Link
Displays a link allowing people to bookmark a post or page on Google Buzz
6) Manually integrate Google Buzz Button
You can manually add Google Buzz button without using any plugin. Just add the following piece of code in your index.php or single.php inside WordPress loop. If you do not want to publish description of your article then paste the following code

<a href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&amp;title=<?php the_title () ?>&amp;srcURL=http://www.yourblogname.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external"><img src="<ENTER THE PATH WHERE IMAGE IS HOSTED" width="50" height="58" alt="" /></a>

If you want to share your post on Google Buzz in a separate Pop-up along with Description then use following piece of code.

< a href='javascript:var%20b=document.body;var%20GR________bookmarklet_domain=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot;;if(b&amp;&amp;!document.xmlVersion){void(z=document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;));void(z.src=&quot;http://www.google.com/reader/ui/link-bookmarklet.js&quot;);void(b.appendChild(z));}else{}'><div style="float: left; background: url(‘ENTER THE PATH WHERE IMAGE IS HOSTED’) no-repeat left; padding: 2px 2px 2px 25px; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 10px;">Buzz it</div></a>

Google Buzz Widgets for Blog

1) Google Buzz Widget

Allows you to add a Buzz widget to your blog. Just enter your Google public profile username to generate the JavaScript , which can then be copied back onto your blog. The release of Google Buzz counter widget is on works.
2) Google Buzz ER WordPress Plugin

Displays public Google Buzz posts on the sidebar of your wordpress blog. All you have to do is to set Google account username and optionally number of posts (15 by default).
3) Google Buzz Widget – A jQuery Plugin
This is a jQuery widget for Google Buzz which can be embed anywhere to integrate your buzz stream into your blog page. It display buzzes as a bar with transition effects or as a fixed list. Each part of the buzz -like links, dates- has its own class for easy CSS customization. By default, widget displays the snippet version of a buzz. But, you can choose to display the complete content of the buzz.
4) JR_GoogleBuzz
This Google Buzz plugin allows you to display your latest Google Buzz updates as a widget on your blog!