So how do you do it? Easy. You can just make use of the template that Niall Kennedy created, which uses the power of Movable Type’s publishing engine to automatically generate the code for the button.
<custombuttons xmlns="http://toolbar.google.com/custombuttons/">
<button>
<title><$MTBlogName remove_html="1" encode_xml="1"$></title>
<description><$MTBlogDescription remove_html="1" encode_xml="1"$></description>
<site><$MTBlogURL$></site>
<search><$MTCGIPath$><$MTSearchScript$>?search={query}&IncludeBlogs=<$MTBlogID$></search>
<send><$MTCGIPath$><$MTSearchScript$>?search={selection}&IncludeBlogs=<$MTBlogID$></send>
<feed refresh-interval="3600"><$MTBlogURL$>atom.xml</feed>
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</button>
</custombuttons>
Save the template, rebuild it (if necessary), and your new button code should be all set. By default, your output should look something like this. Then, your last step is to make a simple link to your new file. That should look like:
The results will give you a link that says Add to Google Toolbar. So what are you waiting for? Click the button! Then you’ll have a new toolbar button updating you on the latest Movable Type news, along with a new search function that lets you have direct access to the Movable Type knowledge base and help documentation. Then be sure to post your own button link on your blog.
Still not appeased the Googlebot enough? Be sure to check out Niall’s Sitemap instructions, which let you simply and easily make a Google Sitemap XML file, which lets you instruct Google’s spiders on how to crawl your site, while letting you as the site owner have access to more statistics and information about your site.
If you want to make your site as reader-friendly (and Google-friendly) as possible, it’s easy to start with Movable Type today and you’ll be button-making, sitemapping and blogging in no time.
