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How to add Twitter (Retweet) Button to Every Blogger Posts

There a lots of ways and platforms to promote your blog in order to get traffic. But the first blog promotion starts from your blog posts itself. You should design your posts with all necessary blogger social bookmarking icons, so that people can spread it’s reach using different web services. There are different buttons that you can use on your blogger posts like Digg, Yahoo! Buzz, StumbleUpon, Mixx, Twitter etc. Here I’m going to show you the tutorial to add a Twitter or Retweet button to your blogger blog posts. Yes, you can use Twitter to promote your blog and you will not only get some followers to your Twitter account but will also get decent traffic to your blog.

If someone likes your post, he can click on the Retweet button to post the topic with it’s URL in his twitter account and all his followers would get notified about this. This is the simple yet effective way to promote your blog posts on twitter. There are two types of Retweet buttons available to insert in your blogger posts. One is the most common sized and another one is the small sized. Look at the below screenshot.

different twitter buttons for blogger posts

How to Add Twitter (Retweet) Button to Blogger Posts

Login to your blogger dashboard.

Navigate to Layout >> Edit HTML >> Expand Widget Templates

Search for and paste the following codes just before or after it. Adding the code before will show the Retweet button on the top of your post while adding after will show the Rettweet button on the bottom of your post.

For Digg like Button, use the following code.

Retweet this button on every post blogger

For Compact sized button, use these codes.

retweet small button


Now if you want align it to the right, use the above code in the following way.



>>>>Retweet Button Code Here<<<<

Similarly if you want to align it to the left, use the above codes in this way.



>>>>Retweet Button Code Here<<<<

You are done now. Now all your blogger posts will have a Twitter button or Retweet button. If you face any problems, use the below comments section to seek help.