Social bookmarking sites
As I go about working to spread the love for this blog, I find myself researching other successful blogs to see what works and what doesn’t - what do all the top ranking and performing blogs have in common? One thing I noticed is that ALL have links to social bookmarking services such as StumbleUpon.com! and del.ico.us.
Being listed in these social bookmarking sites will not only increase your visibility, but also help to increase your search engine rankings by creating valuable “backlinks”. So, in order to save you the time of going to each of the major social bookmarkig services I’ve compiled the code needed to add the automated submit buttons and links to your own site(s). I’m happy to host the icon and button images for you, all you need to do is copy the code and place it where you want the button or text to display on your site (except technorati, you need to change the website address to your own).
Digg.com link and button code:
<script type=””text/javascript””> digg_skin = ‘compact’; digg_window = ‘new’; </script>
<script src=”%E2%80%9Dhttp://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js%E2%80%9D” type=””text/javascript””></script>
Save to del.icio.us link and icon code:
<a href=”http://del.icio.us/post” onclick=”window.open(’http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&noui&jump=close&url=’+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+’&title=’+encodeURIComponent(document.title), ‘delicious’,'toolbar=no,width=700,height=400′); return false;” target=”new” > <img src=”http://www.tysblog.com/images/delicious_sm.gif”> Save to del.icio.us</a>
Stumble It! link and icon code:
<a href=”http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>” target=”new” ><img src=”http://www.tysblog.com/images/stumble_sm.gif”> Stumble it!</a>
Add to Technorati link and button code:
<a href=”http://technorati.com/faves?sub=addfavbtn&add=http://www.tysblog.com” target=”new”><img src=”http://www.tysblog.com/images/technoratifavoritesbutton.gif”></a>
Save to Propeller Code:
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://www.propeller.com/widgets/med_vote_if/<?php the_permalink()?>”></script>
And, since you’re adding some code to your page, why not include a link to this site? You know it would be appreciated!
Now, show some luv and paste this someplace! <a href=”http://www.tysblog.com” target=”new”>www.TysBlog.com -Everything you need to know to make your blog a success!</a>
Or, you could just buy a piece of software that automates it for you.
This is program I found that will help you with your social bookmark marketing:
If you liked this post,do me a favor and
Stumble it! Thanks!
2 responses so far ↓
1 Sangeeta Sinha // Feb 19, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Ty, to bookmark is interesting. But, how do I go about it? I know you have explained it but it is so technical that everything is going above my head! You have said, “copy and place it in my site”. How?? Where in the site???
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2 Ty Hurd // Feb 19, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Sangeeta, copy the code that is in green above and paste it at the end of every one of your new posts.
Or if you want to save a TON of time, set up a signature and put it there (good free word press signature plugin can be found here: http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/add-signature-plugin-for-wordpress/).
This way when you write a new post it will automatically be at the end every time.
Additionally, if you’re using wordpress you can place the code on the “single post” page. From within your wordpress control panel click on “Presentation”, then “Theme Editor”, then click on the Single Post link on the right. You’ll want to paste the code directly after this:
“< ?php the_content('
Read the rest of this entry »’); ?>”
This is also a good place to put your Google AdWords (or similar) code if you want an ad to be placed automatically at the end of every post.
Hope this helps! Feel free to let me know if you need more help!
Ty
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