Add This Social Bookmarking Button

Posted on September 17, 2007
Filed Under WordPress Marketing, WordPress Social |

Social bookmarking has become an important blog marketing approach. It started with Del.icio.us when you see many blog sites provide a Del.icio.us button to let you bookmark the page. Then there comes more, — Furl, Diigo, Wink, Backflip, etc. If you add a button to each, it will be quite clustered. Here comes AddThis, — a social bookmarking button that opens a pop-up window to let you bookmark or submit your page to over 30 social networking sites. You just put one button, that saves real-estate, avoids cluttering, and reduces confusion on your website.

Although it is called “AddThis Widget”, it is not really WorPress widget that you can drag and drop. Instead it’s a piece of source code that you can add to the WP theme’s PHP file to display the button in sidebar or for each post. Optionally you can download a WP plugin to implemnt the “AddThis” button.

AddThis is a great tool that makes it very easy for your visitors to bookmark your blog post, and subscribe to your feeds. It supports most bookmarking and feed reader services. A bookmarking button like this helps your visitors promote your blog to the social bookmarking services, which will bring back more hits,– what so called social Traffic.

Another great feature if AddThis is statistics, — it provides valuable statistics showing what content your visitors bookmark the most on your website or blog, over various time periods.

Currently AddThis bookmarking button supports the following social bookmarking and networking sites:

Favorites (local browser)
Google Bookmarks
Del.icio.us
Digg
Facebook
Furl
StumbleUpon
Yahoo MyWeb
Newsvine
Reddit
Technorati
Live Bookmarks
Yahoo Bookmarks
Blogmarks
Ask
Netscape
Slashdot
Fark
Simpy
RawSugar
Backflip
Wink
Spurl
LinkaGoGo
Mister Wong
Feed Me Links
Netvouz
Magnolia
Diigo
Blue Dot
Segnalo
Tailrank
DropJack
BlinkList

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