Yahoo Buzz Wordpress Plugin - But what the heck Yahoo Buzz is?

August 19th, 2008 | email this
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I know most of you must be saying, what the heck is “Yahoo Buzz!” :-).

Yahoo Buzz!

Yahoo Buzz has officially opened for all the publishers out there. Yahoo Buzz is nothing but Yahoo’s clone of digg where people vote on articles. And the most voted few articles would be pushed to the Yahoo homepage, the most visited page across the internet. I am happy to bring this information to you, not because I brought it much ahead of any other blog around me - but happy because I could bring you something fruitful.

Every blogger must be glad now, that they have a chance to be on Yahoo’s homepage for some time and get loads and loads of traffic that might melt your web hosting servers.

But how to add those Yahoo Buzz buttons to your blog posts? 

Specially, when you have some 100s of nice articles in your blog that you would like to test with this service. Travis Johnson has brought you Yahoo Buzz wordpress plugin within a day of Yahoo buzz opening for all the publishers. I could not see a blog post on his blog about this wordpress plugin, but you can download the plugin here ;-) - don’t ask me how I got it - Travis emailed me :-D

This plugin will help you to bring those Yahoo Buzz buttons at the bottom of your post and your readers can then buzz your articles.

As there is no post on this plugin by Travis, let me explain the steps to install this plugin

  1. Download the Yahoo Buzz wordpress plugin.
  2. Upload the zip to plugins directory
  3. Activate the plugin from your wordpress blog’s admin section
  4. Now go to Dashboard -> Options -> Buzz on Yahoo!
  5. Select the look and feel of button you would like. Here the button details are given in text without graphics, so this Yahoo buttons page would be of your help
  6. That’s it, you would see the Yahoo buzz button appearing at bottom of each of your posts

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18343. Joseph@1-800blog said in August 19th, 2008

I tested the yahoo buzz and was happy to learn that users do not have to register for a new account if they already have a yahoo account.

I think this wonderful because a lot of surfers do at least have an account with yahoo say for example yahoo mail and can as a consequence use their account details to log in and submit to yahoo buzz

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18363. Jason said in August 19th, 2008

Thank you for this quick writeup on the YahooBuzz WP plugin.

I’ve already installed it.

Is it possible to move the Yahoo buzz button to the bottom right of a post?

Or to put it inline with the other bookmark buttons I have?

Sample page here:

http://jasoncollin.org/2008/08/06/walk-down-my-street-tokyo-japan-google-maps-street-view/

Thank you.

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18394. albachtimi - online information said in August 20th, 2008

Thanks for your information, I have installed it to my blog too. Hopefully will get many votes.

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18534. fangchu said in August 21st, 2008

hey thanks for the post.. and also the plugin.. was looking for one eversince i was shot a mail from yahoo that they have opened it to public…

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18594. Utah Web Design said in August 21st, 2008

I remember when Yahoo Buzz came out. I think they have received a high response and am glad that people can now buzz blog articles.

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18645. Enkay Blog said in August 21st, 2008

I have heard about Yahoo Buzz and I think for competitors to enter the Digg niche market at a time when Digg is already well estabished is not a good move. I don’t think that the buzz yahoo is creating will last long.

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18670. Luis Gross said in August 22nd, 2008

Hey,

I heard about this Yahoo!Buzz thing and how it’s going to be big. I hear they might give Digg a run for their money — I don’t know how much truth’s behind that.

But, I have to agree with Jason, the fact that it works through Yahoo!ID is awesome. No boring, signing in process to vote.

Another thing that’s interesting that I heard around the blogosphere is, if something gets “buzzed” enough it can make the front page of Yahoo!.

If that’s possible, my oh my — traffic galore. Anyway, thanks for sharing the plugin.

I’m going to Buzz this post — how about a review/case study on how much traffic its brung you?

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18795. Jason said in August 22nd, 2008

Just a possible security warning about this plugin, my website was hijacked twice this past week by phishers. This had never happened before in the 10-year history of my site. The only changes to my site this week were installing this Yahoo Buzz plugin. I have since removed it.

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18827. chuck norris dude said in August 23rd, 2008

I think it’s a good time for Yahoo to do Buzz. And what I’ve seen in these last few days, they are quite busy there.

It’s a good time to steal some users from Propeller, since lot of them dislike the changes it made with the looks and structure. I must say it really is awful and it lost it’s charm.

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19045. Net Age said in August 25th, 2008

Thanks for the plugin, I will try it out.

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19104. Free Wordpress Themes said in August 25th, 2008

It might take a little while for it to catch on

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19242. Static said in August 27th, 2008

This definitely will take a while to catch on. Yahoo! can catch up with Digg, but as of, Digg is just way too big. However, because Digg did not go under Google, Yahoo!’s publicity and an already established userbase could help in making Buzz the better solution later on.

However, as of, I’m not too dazzled by this.

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19356. Betty said in August 28th, 2008

Thank you for a great comprehensive post. This post has every thing which i was looking for. Thanks once again.

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19372. Sarah Hayes said in August 28th, 2008

Well if it is new ways to market our sites, so viva Yahoo buzz. I don’t think it will be as great as digg. But you never know what to expect from Yahoo. They haven’t sold out yet and surely there are on a role!

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19617. Msvip213 said in August 30th, 2008

Nice site!!! I really enjoyed the post and I will be back for sure!!!

Danielle (YBA)

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19683. Internet Business World said in August 31st, 2008

Thank you for this post. I really like yahoo buzz and now will definitely use this plugin.

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20772. Web Design Dave said in September 12th, 2008

It was a smart move to incorporate this feature onto their home pages. Yahoo seems to becoming less and less about search, and more and more about sorting the information to display it on their home pages. It will be interesting to see how their attempts at integrating social media will effect the web.

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21081. webkinz said in September 16th, 2008

I think Yahoo buzz is suitable just for news and celebrity blogs…

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21094. Make Money In Pakistan said in September 17th, 2008

Thanks you for this post I’ll try tos use it in my blog it’ll make my yahoo rank better…Won’t it?

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21323. Barroc said in September 20th, 2008

yahoo buzz like digg. i am thinking whether i will use it for my blog

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25330. Associate Degree Nursing Schools said in November 15th, 2008

I tested the yahoo buzz and then tell you how it was. Thanks for telling the steps so it is easy for me to install this plug-in and I hope it will be very useful for me .thanks for the information

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