Grow your audience with the Google+ followers gadget

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.8192375681828707" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Connecting your blog to Google+ is a great way to attract new readers, as well as build lasting relationships with your followers. <b id="internal-source-marker_0.6930913142859936" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For example, you can easily</span></b> </span><a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2011/12/connect-to-google.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">share your posts</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the Google+ stream, as well as enable blog visitors to </span><a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2012/04/two-new-gadgets-to-make-your-blog.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">recommend your stuff</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in a single click. Today we're excited to offer another Google+ perk: the followers gadget.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Google+ followers gadget highlights your total Google+ audience (both its size and some friendly faces), and offers visitors the chance to follow you on Google+. As a result, you can grow your readership across the web, and reach them either in the Google+ stream, or through your blog.</span></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOoPzEJriL1RJL6aC3LK0GRQKqygmt9xOT9dHLEwQjh_HVXKmhYnpfZCYjZoJywpzQpoTjDD2mnMkQWoyv-SSDtTNGxxj6kBlLwImhwsU8EHmG7DfvLCzt5SRHxl2BjOz7FeJU4TL0oQ8h/s800/delicious-cupcakes%2520%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOoPzEJriL1RJL6aC3LK0GRQKqygmt9xOT9dHLEwQjh_HVXKmhYnpfZCYjZoJywpzQpoTjDD2mnMkQWoyv-SSDtTNGxxj6kBlLwImhwsU8EHmG7DfvLCzt5SRHxl2BjOz7FeJU4TL0oQ8h/s800/delicious-cupcakes%2520%25281%2529.png" /></a></div><b id="internal-source-marker_0.39449117914773524" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To get started, just </span><a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2012/07/socialize-with-googleplus.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">connect your blog to Google+</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, visit the "Layout" tab of the Blogger dashboard, and select "Add a Gadget." You can also read a bit more about today's update in our </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=2387000&answer=2846874" target="_blank">Help Center</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Happy blogging!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">p.s. Those of you with the Google Friend Connect followers gadget can keep using it, if you like. We retired most of Friend Connect </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/more-spring-cleaning-out-of-season.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">earlier this year</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, but we'll keep it running on Blogger for the foreseeable future.</span></b></div>

Grow your audience with the Google+ followers gadget

Connecting your blog to Google+ is a great way to attract new readers, as well as build lasting relationships with your followers. For examp...

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Blogger Following for All

A few posts ago we let you know about <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2008/08/show-off-your-followers.html">Blogger Following</a>. The feature lets readers publicly subscribe to your blog (so you know who's reading) and adds a Reading List to your Blogger Dashboard so readers can stay updated with the blogs they follow.<br /><br />Now it's available to <span style="font-style: italic;">all</span> users in English. We'll keep you updated about when we launch it in Blogger's other languages.<br /><br />To learn more about Following, read the <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2008/08/show-off-your-followers.html">Blogger Buzz Post</a> or the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/follow-your-favorite-blogs.html">Google Blog Post</a>.

Blogger Following for All

A few posts ago we let you know about Blogger Following . The feature lets readers publicly subscribe to your blog (so you know who's re...

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