I recently came across a little tidbit worth blogging about: The Google +1 Button embedded in someone’s web page.
If you’ve been using Google recently I’m sure you’ve seen these +1 buttons next to your search results. Or maybe you haven’t – they only appear if you happen to be logged into Google when you do a search. By logged into Google I mean into any Google account – Gmail, Google Docs, or whatever. They’re all sort of merged into what’s now being called Google+.
When I first noticed them I was mildly intrigued, but felt it was at the wrong place. After all, how can you recommend a link to a page you haven’t visited yet? And there’s nothing to say you’re going to come back to the search page to make your recommendation.
But now I see there’s a way to put the +1 Button right on the page. To me that makes much more sense. Of course it means the page owner needs to change their page to make the button available.
The full details can be found here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/ I intend to get these on my pages, once I get some bugs (caused by a WordPress upgrade) worked out.