Google Buzz automatically detects many of the sites associated with user’s Google profile using Social Graph API. Creating association manually is also possible–to do this, user has to include XFN link in <head>
element of the external site that points to the Google profile. More details here.
Now, as we know, owners of blogs hosted on wordpress.com cannot access or edit underlying templates, so cannot add the XFN link. Luckily, there’s workaround: wordpress.com supports Google Webmaster Tools verification. And, when you verify your wordpress.com blog with Webmaster Tools, it becomes associated with your Google profile!
So, step one: log into Webmaster Tools, add a new site, copy the verification key:
Step two: go to your wordpress.com dashboard, tools, and paste the verification key there:
Step three, four, five: Complete the verification in Webmaster tools, wait a bit, and your wordpress.com blog should then show up as suggestion in “connected sites” in Buzz!
This trick worked for me–let me know whether it works for you too!
Actually, you can do this on a WordPress.com site. The reason is that Google is looking for the rel=”me”, not just a “link” in the header.
To do it:
1. Go make a new Link in the Links section of your dashboard.
2. Set the web address to be your Google Profile address.
3. Set the Link relationship to be “another web address of mine”.
4. Save.
5. Make sure that you have the Bookmarks widget showing on your blog.
6. If you didn’t already, add your own site to one of the sites in your Google Profile.
Done and done. Just wait for Google to crawl it again and when it does, you’ll see that your site will show up as a “Connected Site” possibility in your Buzz content.
Great, so there are multiple ways to do this, and this one sounds even easier!
Worked for me, thank you so much!
worked for me also
great work
There is an even easier way. You can add any blog you like directly to your Google Profile page. Once it is on that, it will be populated into the list of sites to connect to Buzz.
Humm, I had my wordpress.com blog added to the profile links but it didn’t show up in the connected sites list. Only after I did the Webmaster Tools verification thing it did.
That doesn’t always work, hence the above work around.
this is exactly what i was looking for! tank you very much
Yay, it worked! And fast, too! Thank you!
go go go google
It worked! Thanks for posting the guide.
neat. Worked for me. Thanks for the tip.
Awesome, thank you! Your steps were clear enough that even this non techie succeeded easily.
Was she/he well-behaved?
A huge thanks, this does work,tried lots of other suggestions, thank you xxxx
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thanks a lot! this worked beautifully.
Hi, I got my sites verified in google, but nothing showing up yet. There are no new sites to connect to in buzz either.
my blog was not connected.
after clicking on recrawl button in sgapi..
it showing No links found
what can i do
Thank you very much!
Finally a procedure that worked perfectly!
Yay. As previously stated, apparently there there are several methods. None of which were apparent *until* I found your post so THANK YOU. 🙂
Nice!
Works perfectly.
Thanks for sharing.
that so more connection site for give good connect.
thanks for owner.