Linkedin is a popular network for professionals, so if you’re writing stuff on the internet aimed at business users – or any professional user who might be networked via Linkedin – you’ll probably want to make it easy for those people to share your great content on Linkedin.

In this blog post, I’m going to explain to you just how to do that!

How to Get The Linkedin Share Button into Your Blog

Firstly, there are a heap of good plugins which will handle the placement and positioning of sharing buttons on your website.

I use a great WordPress plugin called “Sharebar” (just search for that name on the Add Plugins part of WordPress to grab it for yourself). However, that plugin, does not come with Linkedin support out of the box. Nope, you’ll need to edit one of the other templates and drop the Linkedin code into the “Large Button” and “Small Button” areas.

But what is that code? Fear not, I’m here to help you!

Linkedin Large Button (With Count) Code

The linkedin large button (with count) looks like this:

The code you’ll need to put into your website, wherever you want this button to appear is as follows:

<script src=”http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script type=”IN/Share” data-counter=”top”></script>

Linkedin Horizontal Button (With Count) Code

The Linkedin Horizontal button (with count) looks like this:

The code you need for this one is as follows:

<script src=”http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script type=”IN/Share” data-counter=”right”></script>

Linkedin Horizontal Button (Without Count) Code

Finally, if you want the Linkedin button, horizontally, only without the count number (maybe it will be soooo big that it will hide some other part of your page ) then that one looks like this:

To get this into your website, simply enter the following code into your template, wherever you wish the button to appear:

<script src=”http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script type=”IN/Share”></script>

So, that’s all there is to adding the Linkedin Share Button to your websites and blogs! Any problems, and you can leave a comment below.