ShareThis Social Buttons for Blogger

All and all, I'm pretty satisfied with having my blog hosted through Blogger. I've considered a few times making a switch over to WordPress, mainly because I would love a personalized URL. If I'm being honest though, I don't really feel like paying for it.

For the most part, I really love the gadgets. They are easy to use and thanks to the wonders of HTML, I can add just about anything I want whether it's pre-programmed for the Blogger platform or not. I will admit that I have never been really impressed with the social sharing options though.

I've always had them, but they don't really standout the way I would like them to.

They're already built into the design template that I'm using and let's face it... They're B-O-R-I-N-G!

I wanted something with a little more...um... pizzazz. After a couple days of searching the web for a suitable replacement I managed to find ShareThis. The best part about it, it was free to get my new buttons!

It was also extremely easy to get registered with them. If you're like me, you get tired of filling out the same information over and over and over again (this is why everything is stored in my Chrome). All I had to do was select which social network I wanted to use. In my case, Google+.

Once you're logged in you can "get sharing" by selecting which network you want to get the buttons for. 

Then choose your style.

Customizing the look of your new buttons is extremely simple... Just drag and drop.

Once you've completed your desired arrangement click on the green "get code" button. This will bring you to the next page where you can highlight on copy the code to past into your HTML gadget for Blogger.

Then you have a brand new, eye catching, simple way for readers to engage and share your content. Now if only I could figure out where in the coding the old social buttons are to remove them, I'd be in perfect shape!

I am not an affiliate of ShareThis, nor was I compensated for this review.