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Got a question with yesterdays post about cleaning up the unused plugins. There are a variety of plugins available to add social promotion to your blog. Could probably do a list of 50 or more with no problem.

First here is the question.

When I put my share buttons on (Using Sexy Bookmarks Sidebar Widget plugin)I can not figure out how to get the subscribe by email to work. You know that little icon with the envelope. I would also like the Google buzz button to work but I don’t know how.

First I am not familiar with Sexy Bookmarks but most of the items work the same. When I did a search for the plugin there are no instructors and very little information on it. Personally, if it is not supported and I have trouble with a plugin that is usually enough for me to get a different one to do the same thing.

If you don’t want to use the sidebar widget but like the look of Sexy Bookmarks here is a post from a Barbara Ling with an alternative and how she took it up a level titled “101+ Stellar Exciting Social Media Icon Sets You MUST Witness To Start 2011 Off Right!”.

I use share bar here and it has a settings page where you can pick and choose what you want to show.

The only item that needs to be set up with them is the Twitter name. This way it will reference you when someone tweets.

Google Buzz just needs to be enabled to make it show on your blog. It should be linked so that when someone selects Buzz it posts to your Buzz account under your Gmail account that you are logged into.

Now if you are not currently logged in to a Gmail account you will need to log in before you can post.

The little envelope opens a pop up that you can add the to email of who you want to send information about the site and your own email, then a message to that person. It is not a link to subscribe to your blog.

Hope that helps you and I always welcome questions that people have and try my best to answer them here. Leave your comments and questions in the comments below.

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