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ClustrMaps on MySpace - we are BACK [again]!

SUMMARY: Register (free); copy HTML option [B] from your ClustrMaps Admin page; paste it into your MySpace profile (About me…) with ‘Edit profile’. MySpace may magically change your HTML to something with ‘msplinks’ in it, but it should still work. That’s all! Details below.


UPDATE 22nd October 2007: As of today the code we have supplied is even simpler, and fully MySpace-compliant, and solves a repeated problem of ‘disappearing’ HTML code. This code now is fine for HTML that specifies either www.clustrmaps.com or www2.clustrmaps.com or www3.clustrmaps.com - just be sure to copy and paste exactly the code we describe below.

Note: If you had a ‘dormant’ or under-used ClustrMaps account and want to start again, you could sign up as a brand new user, which is still free, this time using a “similar” URL: for instance if your old user account was http://www.myspace.com/user, then this time you can use http://myspace.com/user instead (notice, in this example we simply omitted the www) and thus it will be stored differently and count as a new user. (Alternatively, put a ‘/’ at the end if you did not have one before, or remove it if you did)!

There are three techinques for adding ClustrMaps to your MySpace pages: (1) adding it to your PROFILE, (2) adding it to your BLOG, (3) adding it to your GROUP DESCRIPTION.

Here are the three techniques:


Technique 1: Add ClustrMaps to your MySpace profile

Quick version: Get HTML from your free ClustrMaps account, copy and paste it into your profile with ‘Edit profile’, but be sure to use HTML option [B] that we provide way down low on your ClustrMaps Admin page. Now for the steps in detail:

  1. Get a free ClustrMaps account and passwod by following the ‘Get one!’ link at the top of ClustrMaps.com
  2. Log in to your ClustrMaps ‘Admin’ page by clicking on the ‘Admin’ link at the top of any ClustrMaps page, or going directly to: http://www.clustrmaps.com/counter/action.php (use your URL as your username, and the password you have been sent, or the password you changed it to)
  3. On your Admin page, you will see several boxes containing different versions of the HTML code. In this case you should use variation “[B] Minimalist (for those with the most restrictions):” that you should find very low down on your Admin page. Click in the box with your mouse and select ALL of that text (you can use the two keyboard keys CTRL A to select all of it)
  4. Now copy that HTML (you can use the two keyboard keys CTRL C keys to perform this, or right-click with the mouse and select ‘Copy’); you will then paste it into your web page later on below.
  5. Now you must log into in to MySpace.com normally with your email address and password.. Do this in a separate browser window if possible, or in the same window you are currently using if that is simpler for you.

    You now need to alter the ‘code’ on your page where the map is going to appear…. so…


  6. Select ‘Edit Profile’ in the upper left of your MySpace page
  7. Select ‘About me:’ (that’s the best one)… or any other field for that matter… (Edit)
  8. use the CTRL V keys to paste what you earlier copied at step 3, or right-click with the mouse and select ‘Paste’
  9. Click the Preview Button
  10. Click the Save button

    11. NOTE: MySpace may magically change your HTML to something with ‘msplinks.com/…..’ in it. This is for their own internal tracking purposes, but it should still work.


Technique 2: Adding ClustrMaps to your MySpace blog



  1. Get a free ClustrMaps account and passwod by following the ‘Get one!’ link at the top of ClustrMaps.com
  2. Log in to your ClustrMaps ‘Admin’ page by clicking on the ‘Admin’ link at the top of any ClustrMaps page, or going directly to: http://www.clustrmaps.com/counter/action.php (use your URL as your username, and the password you have been sent, or the password you changed it to)
  3. On your Admin page, you will see several boxes containing different versions of the HTML code. In this case you should use variation “”[B] Minimalist (for those with the most restrictions):” that you should find very low down on your Admin page. Click in the box with your mouse and select ALL of that text (you can use the two keyboard keys CTRL A to select all of it)
  4. Now copy that HTML (you can use the two keyboard keys CTRL C keys to perform this, or right-click with the mouse and select ‘Copy’); you will then paste it into your web page later on below.
  5. Now you must log into in to MySpace.com normally with your email address and password.. Do this in a separate browser window if possible, or in the same window you are currently using if that is simpler for you.

    You now need to alter the ‘code’ on your page where the map is going to appear…. so…


  6. select Manage blog (from the entries in the box near the upper left)
  7. select Customize blog (in the section down on the lower left called My controls)
  8. in the section called Page Header (second main section)… select “Your Own Header HTML”
  9. click the mouse in the big empty text box near where it says “Header HTML”, and use the CTRL V keys to paste what you earlier copied at step 3, or right-click with the mouse and select ‘Paste’
  10. Click the Preview Button above the box (at the far right in the same line where it says Page Header)
  11. Click the Save button
  12. At the VERY TOPof page you’ll see a big item enitled “Would you like to use this as your look and feel?” (Click the YES button!)
  13. Near the top you should then see the message, in red, “Your Blog look and feel has been updated!”

    14. NOTE: MySpace may magically change your HTML to something with ‘msplinks.com/…..’ in it. This is for their own internal tracking purposes, but it should still work.

Technique 3: Add ClustrMaps to your MySpace Group description

Quick version: Similar to technique 1: Get HTML from your free ClustrMaps account, copy and paste it into your Description with ‘Edit Group’. Now for the steps in detail:

  1. Get a free ClustrMaps account and passwod by following the ‘Get one!’ link at the top of ClustrMaps.com
  2. Log in to your ClustrMaps ‘Admin’ page by clicking on the ‘Admin’ link at the top of any ClustrMaps page, or going directly to: http://www.clustrmaps.com/counter/action.php (use your URL as your username, and the password you have been sent, or the password you changed it to)
  3. On your Admin page, you will see several boxes containing different versions of the HTML code. In this case you should use variation “[B] Minimalist (for those with the most restrictions):” that you should find very low down on your Admin page. Click in the box with your mouse and select ALL of that text (you can use the two keyboard keys CTRL A to select all of it)
  4. Now copy that HTML (you can use the two keyboard keys CTRL C keys to perform this, or right-click with the mouse and select ‘Copy’); you will then paste it into your web page later on below.
  5. Now you must log into in to MySpace.com normally with your email address and password - the one that you use to be a Group moderator! Do this in a separate browser window if possible, or in the same window you are currently using if that is simpler for you.

    You now need to alter the ‘code’ on your page where the map is going to appear…. so…

  6. Select the special ‘Edit Group’ button near the top of your MySpace Group page
  7. Select ‘Description’, i.e. click the mouse inside the big box next to where it says ‘Description’ (ignore the ‘Short Description’ section for now).  If there is stuff in there already, that’s OK, but make sure whatever you do now appears at the very end of the Description section.
  8. use the CTRL V keys to paste what you earlier copied at step 3, or right-click with the mouse and select ‘Paste’
  9. Click the Preview Button
  10. Click the Save button

    11. NOTE: MySpace may magically change your HTML to something with ‘msplinks.com/…..’ in it. This is for their own internal tracking purposes, but it should still work.