Show Google Talk & Yahoo Messenger Status Icon on Blogs

Connecting directly with your Blog Readers is one of the best way to improve your blog and also your Network which is why we would recommend you to use as many tools you can on your Blog which can help the visitors add you and join your following networks. Some of the famous stuff in this include adding Twitter Badge, Facebook Groups, Google Friend Connect, Instant Messenger Icons etc. In this article we are going to discuss on how to show some of your favorite Instant Messengers Icons on your Blog.

Show Google Talk Icons Google Talk is slowly taking over other Messengers because of the simplicity, nice features and this one of the reason people prefer using Google Talk rather than other IM’s. Google Talk calls this service as ChatBack where in you can directly chat with your readers Live along with a Online/Offline iCon. The small icon looks cool and this feature does not require your blog reader to have a Google Account because it shows a small window to them where in they can directly chat to you and its shown as a Guest Chat. You can create your Chatback badge here. You can easily edit and customize the way you want your badge to be shown.

Yahoo Messenger Status Icon Yahoo Messenger is still the king of Instant Messengers mainly because people are habituated to this service and are still not moving to better service providers which is why we have included a way using which you can status icons on your blog. You can directly use the following code and edit the YourID section with your username of your yahoo account which means that if a user is going to click on the badge or icon on your website, they will directly get a window in Yahoo Messenger with your profile and option to directly chat. The only stuff required in this is that the visitor should have Yahoo Messenger installed on their computer to make this work. There are a total of 9 different styles which you can show you to your Readers by just changing the Style ID from 1 to 9.

<a href="ymsgr:addfriend?YOURID"><img src="http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=YourID&m=g&t=StyleID" border="0"></a>