Display Google Plus Profile Button in Blogger.com

Recently I have posted about "How to Create Google Plus Profile Button?" for general use.

Now, in this post we will learn the example of how to display google plus profile button in Blogger.com's blog so that your blogger friends can adding you into their Google+ circles and follow your stream.

Let's start the tutorial..

First of all you will need to get your Google Plus profile button code in HTML format.

How to Create Google Plus Profile Button?

Google Plus profile button function is to tell your friends that you have Google+ account then let them follow and adding you into their circles.

But unfortunately, unlike Facebook that provides you badges to put on your site, so the visitors can view your profile and can send you friend request as well, Google Plus does not have any badge system yet. But don't worry, we can use a simple trick using Google Profile button.

Yes, its actually used for Google Profile, but because Google has made Google+ as default profile page for its users covers up Google Profile, so we can also use it for Google+ profile page.

Get Google Plus Stream Updates via RSS Feed

Nowadays if we want to check updates from our Google+'s circles, we need to open their stream one by one. Of course it's serious problems because it takes lots of time, moreover if we have many friends to followed.

RSS feed is one solution for this problem. RSS is most popular option for get latest updates from any website or blog on internet and we can used it to follow a specific user on the new social networking site also. But unfortunately RSS feeds are not officially supported by Google+ yet. That's bad of course.

RSS feed subscribe option is still on the process of developing Google+ project with another service like API, media player plug in and everything in between. But we can try a service that turns a stream into an RSS feed using third party applications.

10 Sites to Create Shortened Google+ Profile URL

The main benefit of shortened URL is to make it easier for you to send this URL to your friends without having to remember for your Google profile id (the 21 digit number in the URL) like:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/106629607806000497486/posts

But unlike Facebook where you can have your profile URL short like http://www.facebook.com/username, Google don't have any official vanity URL for our Google+ profiles. So we have to use third party apps to shortened our Google+ profile URL. If you don't want to use any third party applications, you can see another tricks, using Google Profiles option or redirecting from your own domain name.

Here are 10 Sites to Create Shortened Google Plus Profile URL:

How to Create Short Google+ URL using Your Own Domain?

Previously I've posted two ways how to short Google+ profile URL, using Google Profiles option and using Gplus.to as a third party application.

In this post, I want to share with you the another way. This guide will show you how to create a short URL on your own web host that will redirect to Google Plus. So be sure you already have your own domain like .com, .net, .info or else and have access to your hosting server (no matter you rent or you get it free).

After completing these instructions, when someone types in http://www.yourdomain.com/myusername, they will be automatically redirected to your G+ profile page.