Adding Social Bookmarking Buttons for Your Blog Post

Nothing beats having our readers help promote our content. If they really like what we’ve said, or produced, we want to make it very easy for them to share their excitement with the world. The problem is, many of your readers are not willing to spend the time and effort to login to the social bookmarking sites, then copy and paste URL’s. How many of your readers do you believe will open a new window, go to Digg, Technorati, Delicious, Propeller, and other sites? If we really want them to bookmark our sites, we need to simplify the process.

You can make it easier for your readers to social bookmark your content, by adding one of the social bookmarking buttons plugins. Adding social bookmarking buttons to your blog, allows the reader to click a single button, which launches the social bookmarking site, and fills out a portion of the entries for them. These plugins normally include over 50 of the best social bookmarking sites in their list, with the most popular ones displaying as the buttons in front. This makes it more likely our excited readers will bookmark our site, which gives us more traffic, and more rankings.

Here is the steps for you to install my favorite social bookmarking plugin:

1. Login to your Wordpress blog to access your Dashboard.
2. On left side, click tiny arrow on Plugins section then click ‘Add New’.

   

3. Type ‘Social Bookmarking Reloaded’ on search box, hit ‘Search Plugins’ button. Click ‘Install’.

   

4. Click ‘Install Now’ when description window appears.

   

5. Wordpress will do the installation for you, don’t forget to click ‘Activate Plugin’.

   

6. To customize this plugins, click ‘Social Bookmarking R’ on Settings section.

   

7. If your blog is in English, change the ‘Display Title’, ‘Add’ and ‘to’ string. Also, if you want this buttons appear on every single post you have, choose ‘when a single post is viewed’.

   

8. Click ‘Save’.
9. You can choose which social bookmarking sites you want right on the bottom side of the ‘Options’ section and don’t forget to click ‘Save’ button once you choose it.

While the social bookmarking buttons are a great addition to your marketing strategy, it is not a total solution. It is great for having your readers bookmark your posts, but does not allow you, the marketer, to automate your social bookmarking to a variety of key social sites. For you this would still be a tedious task. Just adding the button is usually not enough, you may need to ask your readers to bookmark your post if they find it helpful. You’ll find that not all of the social bookmarking sites carry the same benefit, Digg is more powerful today than Delicious. By having a wide range of options for your readers, they may not bookmark on your preferred bookmarking site.

The good news, by using the social bookmarking plugin, you will definitely increase the percentage of readers who will take the time to bookmark your posts. This will give you a great boost in traffic, and as we all know, added traffic can mean extra dollars in the bank.