Creating a Custom Google Toolbar Button for Your Blog

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Live Demonstration:

Click to add a custom BlogClout.com/blog button to your Google Toolbar

Would You Like Such a Custom Button for Your Own Blog?

Just follow the simple 5 steps below to get your own custom google toolbar button.

1. Create a file in Notepad and save it as “google-btn.xml”

2. Copy-and-paste the following code to that file.

<custombuttons xmlns=”http://toolbar.google.com/custombuttons/”>
<button>
<site>http://www.blogclout.com/blog/</site>
<title>How To Grow Your Blog Traffic</title>
<description>Tricks to Increase Your Blog Traffic</description>
<feed refresh-interval=”3600″>http://www.blogclout.com/blog/feed/</feed>
<search>http://www.blogclout.com/blog?s={query}</search>
<update>http://www.blogclout.com/blog/google-btn.xml</update>
<icon>
AAABAAIAEBAAAAAAAABoBQAAJgAAACAgAAAAAAAAqAgAAI4
AEABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP///wAAtucAc4Ae
v/ADnH7wCUqnsAWnUhAADT/wB7y9YA3vP/AFrT7wDGz7UAhJpjA
QAa4I5ABDH9wClroQAIcf3AO/7/wAAw/cAELrnAIzf9wBjeTpev/AP
9wD39+8AztfGAIyiawBSy+cAQmEIAL3LrQBSbRgAGL7vAgCt5/cAv
O/9wC15/cAhN/3AJSmcwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
</icon>
</button>
</custombuttons>

3. Replace the text in red with your Site Details

a. <Site> = Your Blog URI. Eg: http://www.yourdomain.com/blog
b. <Title> = Title of your blog
c. <Description> = Description of your blog
d. <Feed> = Your Blog Feed URI. Eg: http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/feed.rss
e. <Search> = Your Search Domain (If you don’t have a search box on your blog, please remove the entire Search tag from the file)
f. <Update> = Your source where you will save the google-btn.xml file.
g. <icon> = The 16*16 picture that will show up on the Google Toolbar. You will need the ASCII format of the picture.

To get the ASCII format, go to:
http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp
Upload your icon picture. Select “encode” and click “Convert the Source Data.” Copy-paste the code they give out in your file.

4. Save the file after editing it. And then upload it to your servers.

5. Ask people to click on the following link to add your site button to their Google Toolbars.

http://toolbar.google.com/buttons/add?url=http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/google-btn.xml

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Posted by Ankesh Kothari under Blog Setup on 04 Jun 2007

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