Integrating Social Media Markup into Google Blogger Templates

The Google Blogger.com template system is flexible and somewhat programmable. However getting to learn its idiosyncrasies and mastering the template language it are close to impossible.

I wanted to integrate Google+, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest sharing markup into my template. It took me the better part of a day to battle it and force all the relevant data to show up where I liked it to.

To save you the same headache I want to share with you how to do it. Below is a link to a how-to document I put up on GitHub that describes what needs to be done:

View on GitHub

Validators

• Google+: https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/
• Facebook: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
• Twitter: https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator
• Pinterest: https://developers.pinterest.com/tools/rich-pins/validator/

Ah, now wasn't that easy :)

This article is also available on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/integrating-social-media-markup-google-blogger-sverrir-sigmundarson