How To Add A Blogger Follow Button without Followers?

I was really wondering how can I add a Blogger Follower button without displaying the followers and that bulky blogger widget. After some research and some rational thinking I came up with a simple trick which will help you add this button with least effort.

I always hated that bulky looking follow widget in blogger and I finally came up with a very simple and light weight widget which you can add to your blog very easily.

Just follow below simple steps to create your own Blogger Follow widget.
1. Just Sign in to your Google Account
2. Go to your blog's Dashboard > Design.
3. Just copy the blog Id from the url (Just the number nothing else).

4. Now paste it at the place in the below code marked in red.



<a href="http://www.blogger.com/follow-blog.g?blogID=4237100781225485327" target='_blank'><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioPbyQ695aJrk54ijN-o9K91m4nvCZJM9Q2AfmcL0Sr7-xh-H12hPqs84E47k7NNqyig46DJ-NFEuQHb_jbAHFdAz_cqBQvROnlomX2Fxgp2522Qw1pLpxLvitudInNlFXWwu4f_IG3_k/s1600/Blogger_Follow_Button.PNG"></a>

5. Now Just go to Blogger Design Add HTML widget.

6. And Just copy paste the above code with your blog id in the widget and Save.

You are all set. From now on you are free from the bulky bad blogger follow widget and you have a very simple blogger follow widget. Once you are done with adding the widget you will see some thing similar to the below image. Looks simple right..

33 comments:

nnApril 19, 2011
thanks for this tip!! :)
HarshadApril 19, 2011
You are welcome. Thanks for the comment..
Syafiq SarkawiMay 06, 2011
thank you. very helpful :)
HarshadMay 06, 2011
You are most welcome..
suhaibsatMay 18, 2011
Great tip. Now i can fill up my site with these buttons!! Haha just kidding. Thanks :)
HarshadMay 18, 2011
There is just one button and it saves loads of space..thanks for your valuable feedback.
CushionPlusStyleMay 26, 2011
Thank you so much! I've been looking for this tip forever and your's is the only one that actually worked.
HarshadMay 26, 2011
Cool Glad it worked for ya..
GloriaJune 02, 2011
Thanks for sharing this!
HarshadJune 03, 2011
Appreciated...Thanks for the feedback..
AbbeyJune 09, 2011
My followers aren't showing up on my blog for some reason. If I were to use this option and my old gadget comes back what will that do to my followers? Any clue?
AbbeyJune 09, 2011
Thank you! For some reason my typical follow gadget hasn't been working. Nothing shows up in that area on my blog. I posted your idea on my blog and now people can follow again...I think? Do you know if anything will happen to my followers when my old gadget decides to show up again?
HarshadJune 10, 2011
@Abbey I recommend you to remove the old gadget from your blog. It cannot mysteriously show up if you haven't added it in your blog. The trick I mentioned works perfectly so relax.
AnonymousJune 16, 2011
Thank you so much. You made that so easy!
KateJune 17, 2011
THANK YOU. I have been looking for a way to do this.
RCBJuly 04, 2011
This is great. Thank you very much. I totally agree the original widget is way to bulky, as are many other ones. Do you by any chance if there's a weather widget that can show both farenheit and celsius at the same time? The ones I've found so far require that you chose. Anyway, thanks again!
ParkerJuly 08, 2011
Very cool! Worked like a charm!
QamarJuly 19, 2011
Thanks a lot my friend, a real cool stuff.
AnonymousJuly 29, 2011
Thank You for this! :D

Amy Xx

http://morning-atmosphere.blogspot.com/
HarshadJuly 29, 2011
@Taken, @Kate, @RCB, @Parker, @Qamar, @Amy I am really happy that you all have benefited from this tip. Stay tuned for more such cool things.
UnknownAugust 02, 2011
Thank you! I hate those numbers! xx
HarshadAugust 03, 2011
Hehe...Me too !!
ohmisselleAugust 19, 2011
Thanks but this is not working properly for me. I don't quite understand the instructions, sorry. When I try it out, I get to follow my blog but it ends up saying you are now following lastet techtips which is obviously not my blog. How do you fix that?
HarshadAugust 20, 2011
Hi,

I just saw your blog and observed that you have correctly implemented the button. Cheers.
John JannaSeptember 07, 2011
Wow, prayer answered... Thank you so much!
EmmylouSeptember 16, 2011
Thanks for this tip:) Have been looking everywhere for this info, and it worked!
bayu aldi yansyahSeptember 19, 2011
yeahh i want take this on my footer blog. . thanks before
*indonesian bloggers*
Bubble My LicoriceOctober 16, 2011
thank you so much for the tip :)

http://bubblemylicorice.blogspot.com
Nuriy ArisaOctober 31, 2011
Hello There ^_^

nice tips!!^_^

i m searching for dis n now i find it ^_^

simple n it work very nicely ^_^

thxx for sharing ^_^
UnknownNovember 07, 2011
Thank you and Good Info...
nineNovember 08, 2011
great tips bro.
By the way, is there a way that i can make the icon a bigger?
HarshadNovember 08, 2011
@Nine Just add the height and width attributes to the image and you can even make the buttons bigger or smaller..

Just look at the below code..
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/follow-blog.g?blogID=4237100781225485327" target='_blank'><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyvoqBODutQ/TagvjM9vDCI/AAAAAAAADsw/2m38l41mVYY/s1600/Blogger_Follow_Button.PNG" height="30" width="100"></a>
TahliaNovember 12, 2011
Awesome! That was so easy , cheers!