Gain support for your content

Just wrote a post on your blog and know your readers want to appreciate it with more than a +1? Sharing your new music track on the web rather than on the street with an open guitar case? Get the financial support you deserve with the Google Checkout Support button.

The Support button gives content creators an easy way to gather financial support for their efforts or their service. Bloggers, musicians, authors, developers and more who give away what they create for free may implement the Support button on their websites and enable their users to support their endeavors. If you’re already using Blogger, you can implement the Support button in 5 simple steps:

1. Sign up for a Google Checkout Merchant account at checkout.google.com/sell.
2. Be sure to enable the HTML API by going to the Settings tab, clicking the integration link and unchecking the “My company will only post digitally signed carts” checkbox. Also, copy the Merchant ID for use in step 5. 
3. Back in Blogger, on the Design | Page Elements tab click “add a gadget” where you wish to place the Support gadget. 
4. Add the "Support My Blog" gadget from the gadget gallery. 
5. Customize your support button settings. The Checkout Merchant ID is the one you copied down in step two. Save and you’re done! 

To generate a Support button for use on other sites, please visit the Checkout Developer Guide. For an example of the support button in action, check out http://bloggercheckout.blogspot.com/.

Posted by Peng Ying, Developer Programs Engineer