How to add Social Bookmarking Links to Your Blog

Now this is a fairly simple thing to do but you should have a basic understanding of HTML before you proceed.

What are these buttons you ask, well theese are buttons on your blog that allow customers to submit your article to Digg, Del.icio.us and Slashdot at the click of a button, which helps you to get more traffic, and share your blog post to others who may be interested in it.

What is social networking ?? Well here is a bit of info on a couple. Digg is a user-defined news site similar to Slashdot only better. Del.icio.us is an online social bookmark site that allows you to have all your bookmarks in one place and access them from any computer connected to the Internet. Technorati has mastered tagging for blogs if you have blogware you already have a link for the Technorati Cosmos.

All these tools are HIGHLY effective at getting more traffic, getting Google to index your site constantly and getting submerged into a niche online community that will get you “social traffic.”

Now there is this good site here, but unfortunantly it doesnt not support blogger (bets) the new version of Google's Blogspot, so it wasn't useful for us.

So here is a guide for adding the links onto blogger beta.

1. Sign into blogger beta
2. Click on template and then Edit HTML
3. Click on Expand Widget Templates
4. Find these lines of code:

< class="'post-footer-line">
< class="'post-labels'">
< cond="'data:post.labels'">
<>
< values="'data:post.labels'" var="'label'">
< href="'data:label.url'" rel="'tag'">,
< /b:loop>
< /b:if>

5. Copy paste the following code right underneath it and your done:

< a expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=3&url=" + data:post.url' target='_blank' title='DiggIt!'>< img alt='DiggIt' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/61822091.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Del.icio.us'>< img alt='Del.icio.us' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/65682475.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?u=" + data:post.url + "&t=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Furl'>< img alt='Furl' border='0' src='http://www.furl.net/i/favicon.gif'/>

< a expr:href='"http://www.simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do?href=" + data:post.url + "&title= " + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Simpy'>< img alt='Simpy' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/70286063.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?url=" + data:post.url + "&title= " + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Spurl'>< img alt='Spurl' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/83344081.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u=" + data:post.url + "&=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Yahoo web'>

< img alt='Yahoo' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/41626225.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://reddit.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Reddit'>< img alt='Reddit' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/16304077.gif'/>

< a expr:href='"http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save?u=" + data:post.url + "&h= " + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Newsvine'>< img alt='Newsvine' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/61968867.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?url=" + data:post.url' target='_blank' title='Add to Technorati'>< img alt='Technorati' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/78708502.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://wists.com/r.php?c=&r=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Wists'>< img alt='Wists' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/42818025.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Description=&Url= " + data:post.url + "&Title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Blinklist'>< img alt='Blinklist' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/89442389.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/edit.pl?new_url=" + data:post.url + "&new_comment= " + data:post.title + "&linktype="' target='_blank' title='Add to Fark'>

< img alt='Fark' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/19670459.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://blogmarks.net/my/new.php?mini=1&simple=1&url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Blogmarks'>

< img alt='Blogmarks' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/7577931.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://smarking.com/editbookmark/?url=" + data:post.url' target='_blank' title='Add to Smarkings'>< img alt='Smarkings' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/21598036.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://ma.gnolia.com/bookmarklet/add?url=" + data:post.url + "&title= " + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Ma.gnolia'>< img alt='Ma.gnolia' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/44917000.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://segnalo.com/post.html.php?url=" + data:post.url + "&title= " + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Segnalo'>

< img alt='Segnalo ' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/43631499.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://www.indiamarks.com/post/new?weburl=" + data:post.url + "&pagetitle= " + data:post.title"&pagedesc="' target='_blank' title='Add to Indiamarks'>

< img alt='Indiamarks' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/2094indiamarks.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://blinkbits.com/bookmarklets/save.php?v=1&source_url= " + data:post.url + "&Title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Blinkbits'>< img alt='Blinkbits' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/87284454.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://de.lirio.us/rubric/post?uri=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to De.lirio.us'>< img alt='De.lirio.us' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/50964829.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://www.netvouz.com/action/submitBookmark?url=" + data:post.url + "&title= " + data:post.title + "&popup=no"' target='_blank' title='Add to Netvouz'>

< img alt='Netvouz' border='0' src='http://www.netvouz.com/web/images/netvouz16.gif'/>

< a expr:href='"http://www.rawsugar.com/pages/tagger.faces?turl=" + data:post.url + "&tttl= " + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Rawsugar'>

< img alt='Rawsugar' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/56440303.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://scuttle.org/bookmarks.php/pass?action=add&address= " + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Scuttle'>< img alt='Scuttle' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/50964829.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://www.shadows.com/features/tcr.htm?url=" + data:post.url + "&title= " + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Shadows'>< img alt='Shadows' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/30177473.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://www.connotea.org/add?continue=return&uri=" + data:post.url + "&title= " + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Connotea'>< img alt='Connotea' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/62985973.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://www.linkagogo.com/go/AddNoPopup?title=" + data:post.title + "&url= " + data:post.url' target='_blank' title='Add to Linkagogo'>< img alt='Linkagogo' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/72022024.png'/>

< a expr:href='"http://feedmelinks.com/categorize?from=toolbar&op=submit&name=" + data:post.title + "&url=" + data:post.url' target='_blank' title='Add to Feedmelinks'>< img alt='Feedmelinks' border='0' src='http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/72832979.png'/>

Now that's a lot of links and is a bit over kill, so i'd only use the one's you look at or regularly use.

One other note, is that I would put the following code in there so that the links are on a seperate line from the other data, a simple '< p>' at the start and a '< /p>' at the end and it will look a little neater.

Now for a huge list of social bookmarking links there is this site here., obviously adding that many will just look overkill on your blog, so i'd advise not to do it.

Happy social networking ..

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