So you have created your Blog, you changed its template to match your unique style and you started posting. In Blogs it is very important that your readers can share posts they find interesting with their friends and the online communities they belong to. This provide you with extra traffic to your Blog. If a post brings you new readers and they like what they see, they will stay. Thus you have to provide your visitors with an easy way of sharing your post with others.
In this web 2.0 era, social bookmarking has become a standard and there are many sites and communities that provide such functionality. Having a button for each of them will fill your posts with colorful, yet easy to miss buttons and you will end up confusing your readers. Let alone, that providing a button for each one will be a v
ery tedious task.
ery tedious task.The answer to your problems are buttons that open up a list of communities and sites and your readers can select the one that they want to use. So you can have a bookmarking mechanism that includes digg, facebook, Reddit, yahoo and many more in one easy to use button.
Each of your posts should have one at the bottom so your readers can post that specific article and not the whole page or else their friends will be lost, trying to find the article that your reader was telling them about. Makes sense doesn't it.
There are two very good social bookmarking buttons that I use and I suggest that you give them a try: addtoany and addthis, that you can find in www.addtoany.com and www.addthis.com respectively.
Just go there and pick your button. Both come in different styles so you can choose the one that you like best and suits your website or blog.
You can add them anywhere you want. It is just a small piece of javascript that you can put anywhere on your pages. If you are using blogspot for your blog, in order to add it at the bottom of each of your posts, pick the appropriate code from the site and then go to Edit Html from the Layout menu. Click on Expand Widget Templates and near the bottom find the post-footer tag. Place the code there and voila! Social bookmarking button for each of your posts.
