Tuesday, April 24, 2012 | 2:18 PM

When your visitors come across something interesting on your site, sometimes you want to encourage a simple endorsement (like +1). Other times, however, you want to help visitors share with their friends, right away. Today’s new Google+ Share button lets you do just that.



In line with the design of the new +1 button, here’s how it looks:



Before visitors share:







When clicked, visitors can add a comment and choose who to share with:





After they’ve shared, the button turns red. They can click to share again.







The new Google+ Share button is available to all publishers, globally. Try adding it to your site now - just visit Google Developers to get the code.



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Posted by Rick Borovoy, Product Manager, Google+