July 8, 2013

How to Add a Facebook Follow Button in Blogger

Not every blog owner writes about the world. Sometime blogs are made for personal opinions. In this case, Facebook Fan Pages could give you productive results. Here, you should use Facebook profile and the subscription feature to let users follow you directly on Facebook. Recently, one of our users asked us that How to add a Facebook Follow Button in Blogger.  The follow button is a lot similar to the like box, functionalities and the appearance of the follow button is pretty much identical to the like box. In this article, we will show you How to add a Facebook Follow button for Single Author in blogger.


If you are running on a single author, then you can directly get the follow button code from Facebook Widget page and paste it anywhere you want to display that widget i.e. widget area, template and etc.

How to Add a Facebook Follow button in Blogger?

The first thing you need to do is to go to Facebook Social Plugins website page. Now enter the complete URL of your Facebook Profile for which you are willing to generate the follower button. There are a lot of options for customization which could help you in creating a perfect match for your website.

After entering your Profile URL, you can clearly see how your widget would appear on your website. Once bit of customization is done, press the “Get Code” button at the bottom.
Now a new window would pop out, select the “iFrame” Tab and copy the code. Now paste it anywhere you would like to show this widget. For example, if you are willing to show it in your sidebar then, go to Blogger.com >> Layout >> Add a Gadget >> Add HTML/JavaScript and simple paste the code there.
Congratulations: Once everything is down, simply press the “Save” button and your Facebook Follow button is ready, and good to be live on your website. Now go and check your website to see the Follow button in live action.

We hope this tutorial has helped you in learning how to add a Facebook follow button in blogger? What are your thoughts about this follow button? Does it really worth it, or you are happy with Google+ followers gadget? Let us know about your experience. 

15 comments:

  1. but using iframe not good in SEO, the first :)

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    1. iframe takes time to load on slow connections otherwise i don't think there are any other problems like effecting SEO

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  2. Awesome Sharing :) This is a very nice way to increase Facebook Followers... Thanks for sharing

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  3. Great post brother. Can you help me out with creating blog posts with ads of the left and image on the right, in the start of the blog post. Similar to your blog. The great part is that you have customized blogger to such an extent that it just looks stunning.

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  4. Nice short sweet post.
    i will give it a shot.

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  5. Thanks for this useful post brother..!!

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  6. Blogger.com >> Layout >> Add a Gadget >> after this i couldnot find the next one it appears add your own when i try from there i just find add url what mightbe the problem??????????

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  7. I did something wrong , help. I made a widget but where am i supposed to put the code?? and its not popping up on by sidebar!

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    1. Hi

      You have to add the code in your template not widget, or it wouldn't work.

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  8. does this work for dynamic views templates?

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  9. is there any code for easy make fan box on my blogger site >> www.chudasihousewife.com
    plz help

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    1. Here's a tutorial

      http://www.mybloggerlab.com/2013/05/how-to-add-facebook-fan-box-in-blogger.html

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