Adding Social Bookmarking Buttons to Your Posts
Assuming that you have a WordPress based blog, and your own hosting, then there are several ways that you can add social bookmarking buttons to your posts. This post will briefly go over two options for adding this functionality to your site.
The first option that I would suggest is the option that we use here at Feedback Secrets. We use Feedburner.com to syndicate our RSS feed and FeedBurner allows you the option to add social bookmarking buttons to your posts from inside the control panels of your FeedBurner account.
If you are currently using FeedBurner, then log in to your account and click on the “Optimize” tab. Then click on the “FeedFlare” link in the left hand sidebar. Here you will have the option to select various social bookmarking links to be added to the posts on your site. Please note that next to the option for each link is a check box for adding the link to your site and another for adding the link to your feed.
The next option that I would like to suggest is the plug-in available from ShareThis.com. The ShareThis plug-in is probably the most used method for adding social bookmarking buttons to a blog that I have seen. The advantage of this plug-in is it’s clean and unobtrusive look.
The plug-in appears on the bottom of your posts as a single button in the shape of the ShareThis logo. Once you click on this icon you are given the option to bookmark the post with a host of other social bookmarking and social networking sites.
We hope that this brief overview provided you with some idea for adding social bookmarking buttons to your site. If you have used another method to add the functionality of social bookmarking to your site please leave a comment and let us know about your experience and whether you would recommend that method.
June 30th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
There are a couple of competing plugins for social bookmarking and posting. One of the people commenting on my post suggested addtoany.com as the one they liked best - although they are all good at covering the major sites, and giving good stats