Add a retweet counter on your posts

Jun 19, 2010 by Shivendu Madhava

Twitter is the best service I use daily not only I many of you also use this sevice to drive huge amount of traffic on your blog.Retweets from the followers helps to gain more traffic.Many of you see retweet button and counter on many blogs and want to add to yours but are not familier with that how to add this button and counter.Today I am going to tell you how to add retweet and counter button on your blog post.

If you want to add the retweet button and counter on your blogger template use this simple code:
<br /> <blockquote><mce:script type=”text/javascript”><!– tweetmeme_url = ‘<data:post.url />’; // –></mce:script><br /> <mce:script src=”http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js” mce_src=”http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js” type=”text/javascript”></mce:script> </blockquote>

The result is a button like this:

You can also add a compact version of retweet and counter button with the same options as the larger button. If you want to add the compact version of retweet button and counter on your blogger template use this code:
<br /> <blockquote><mce:script type=”text/javascript”><!– tweetmeme_url = ‘<data:post.url />’; <! tweetmeme_style = ‘compact’; // –></mce:script><br /> <mce:script src=”http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js” mce_src=”http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js” type=”text/javascript”></mce:script></p></blockquote> <p>
The result is a button like this:

And if you want to add retweet button to your wordpress blog you can do it with a plugin click here to download the plugin.
Follow the steps below to install the plugin.

1. Upload the tweetmeme directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Go to Settings/tweetmeme to configure the button

Features

• Integrates the ability to retweet your post with one click
• Shows the current number of times your post has been retweeted on twitter
  Easily installed

• Allows you to specify when the button should go (e.g. top or bottom)

That’s all! If you have some problem or suggestion please leave a comment. Thanks!

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