Adding Stumbleupon to Blogger

StumbleUpon allows you to channel surf the internet and find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests. StumbleUpon learns what you like and makes better recommendations.

You just tell Stumbleupon what you are interested in and it will present you with websites that relate to those topics. You can even submit your own sites to Stumbleupon to generate traffic. If your content is genuinely interesting, people will rate it - otherwise you may find that after an initial burst of traffic from Stumbleupon, things die off.

There are millions of blogs out there today, and one of the most popular online blogging tools out there is Google's Blogger. Blogger allows people to easily manage their blogs without the need for special software or in most cases hosting. This article you are reading now is published through Blogger!

We've done a lot of customisation work on various online tools like Blogger and MySpace including the integration of a StumbleUpon button. It's a button that allows members of StumbleUpon to easily recommend your article for others to read - increasing your audience size and traffic.

We still get requests today for help and information on how integrate StumbleUpon to Blogger - so here are the instructions for the latest version of Blogger.

Adding StumbleUpon to Blogger

Before starting, log in to Blogger and make sure you save a copy of your template somewhere in case you make a mistake.

1. Click on Template
2. Select the "Edit HTML" option
5. Find the following line...

<p><data:post.body/></p> -it's around line 663

6. Replace with....

<p><data:post.body/></p>
<a class='timestamp-link' expr:href='"http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' title='permanent link'>
<img src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/images/su_micro.gif" alt="Stumble Upon Toolbar" align=""/>
</a>

(You may want to replace the link to the StumbleUpon icon in the code above [ http://www.stumbleupon.com/images/su_micro.gif ] with the link to your version of the image and where it is uploaded)

7. Save Template and that's it. To see the changes just republish your blog.

Hope this helps and happy new year to all!
David

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