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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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When you share a post to Facebook or Google+, they display a summary of the post and also a thumbnail if available. Twitter has also come up with a similar solution called Twitter Cards.Twitter has come up with different types of Cards and this tutorial will help you in adding a summary card to your Blogger posts.
Blog Posts which have the summary card added will show a View Summary Option


and when you click on that it will show the actual Twitter Card
expanded-summary
If you need to see live demos, check out our Twitter Page
How to add Twitter Cards to Blogger
Adding twitter cards is really easy and you can do the same by following the below steps
Edit your template and add the Twitter card markup

- Login to your Blogger account and
and go to Template >> Edit HTML


Click somewhere within the Template Editor and press Ctrl + F to search within the template.
Search for
and paste the below code just above that . You will have to modify the first  somebloggertip in the below code with the name of the twitter account which you use for your blog.You can modify the second somebloggertip to the name of the blog author’s twitter account. Since I don’t have a separate one, I am using the same at both places.

   
     

       
       
       
       
       
       


   
so that it looks like



and Save your template.

Next Step is to add Meta Descriptions & images to your Blogger Post – While making a blogger post, make sure that you add a Search Description to it.Also make sure that you have added an image to the post
Final step is to request for approval from Twitter. To do that Go to Twitter Developer Site at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/validation/validator and go to the Validate & Apply tab.

Give the URL of your blog post(To which you have added a search description and image) and click on the go button. Twitter will validate the card markup and if everything is ok it will show an option to request for approval. Do that and once it gets approved you will get an email from Twitter. This process takes around 5-10 day as of now.
Once approved, all your posts which have an image and search description will start showing twitter cards when you or anyone else shares your post to twitter. This will also reflect to old tweets.

Happy Blogging! 
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