How to add the Google +1 to your site

Since Google is god when it comes to the internet, you must play by their rules. Right now, Google is all about the +1 and Google Plus. Which is fine but it leaves many people with some confusion on how to even start and why they should even do it. First to make things easy to understand, Google has been using the +1 in their search engine for a while. It would tell them basically, hey yes, this is what I was looking for. Now they are using it as a way to drive your site up in the search ranks. Basically it means, the more +1 a site has, the more likely it will be higher in the search results. This is the same for the +1 on the post itself.

So some people have people have been asking me how to add the the +1 to their site itself, not their posts. If you are like me, any kind of coding in WP is mind blowing and I tend to stay away from it. But for this, it looks complicated but it truly isn’t.

Go to Google +1 your site. Basically I left all of the options as the defaults, but play with them as you like. Be sure to open the advanced options, though, and add your website address.
Then copy the first set of coding. It looks like