So you've built your Google Site, you've got some visitors and you want those visitors to be able to share your site easily via various social media. This article explains how you go about adding some of those buttons you see on this and other sites.
(NB: Except for those specifically provided by Google via the sidebar editor e.g. Google Plus, you can't add gadgets to the Sidebar)
Google Plusin the content body
As you might expect, the easiest button to add is a Google Plus button.
To add a Google Plus button to the body of a page:
In the SidebarAlternatively, if you have a site with a sidebar, you can add the button to the sidebar as follows (this is the only option for globally inserting the +1 button):
See the sidebar of this site for an example.
Note that when a visitor uses the +1 button it will +1 the page the visitor is currently viewing and not just the site.
The great thing about these buttons is that they 'know' the URL of the page they are on, you don't need to specify it.
'Tweet'
Now you have to set the gadget properties
Optional parameters
Display Parameters
FollowTo add a Twitter 'Follow' button to a page:
Now you have to set the gadget properties
Optional parameters
Display Parameters Finally, if you want to provide multiple buttons at once, my current recommendation is to use the 'AddThis 6' gadget. You will have to create an account on https://www.addthis.com/ but it's easy (and free!)
Then:
Setup the gadget
Display Parameters
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