One button 29 bookmarking sites!

Now that's called convenience. Making life easier for your visitors should be the aim of every blogger. And if in return you get lots of traffic, I would say its even better. As blogs became widespread, many free services sprang up to help you make your blogs popular, to bring your blog contents to a wider audience and to help gain some loyal visitor's etc. So what are we talking about today?

I wrote an article about Socialize one-stop, multiple-bookmarks a few days ago. Here is another related post but about a different service. The service is called Add This. How this service helps you (and your visitors) is by providing you a button to place in your blog. (Its placed on your right hand sidebar, click to test). When a visitor clicks it he is taken to a page that opens in a new window. Here you'll find links to 29 bookmarking sites. Upon clinking the link you are taken to the bookmarking site where you can enter details about the post you want the world to know about. Some of the fields are already filled and some you fill manually. Oh and yes you've to be a member of the bookmarking site to be able to bookmark a page (Add This can't post by itself).

Here is the list of bookmarking sites supported by Add This;

1. Del.icio.us
2. Digg
3. Reddit
4. StumbleUpon
5. Ask
6. Simpy
7. RawSugar
8. BlinkList
9. Backflip
10. Spurl
11. MisterWong
12. Netvouz
13. Diigo
14. Segnalo
15. GoogleBookmarks
16. Furl
17. Newsvine
18. YahooMyWeb
19. Technorati
20. LiveBookmarks
21. Blogmarks
22. Netscape
23. Shadows
24. Wink
25. LinkaGoGo
26. FeedMe Links
27. Magnolia
28. BlueDot
29. Tailrank

And yes you'll have to become a member of Add This to utilize their service. One benefit of using their service is that you can see how many times your pages were bookmarked by logging into your account.

Here are the steps to getting the Add This button onto your blog;

1. Goto this page
2. Select Bookmarking widget from the drop-down box which says "Which kind of widget?".
3. Select the size of button by clicking the radio-button next to the label which says "Which widget?". Middle one is fine.
4. From the drop-down box (which says "Where?Where do you want to put the widget?") select your blog location. There are four options to choose from; on a Website, on a blog, on a MySpace page or in an Ezine or Newsletter.
5. If you selected "on a blog" option then you are asked about the blogging platform. The supported platforms are; Typepad or MovableType, Blogger, Wordpress or other.
6. Next you chose whether you "want stats with that?". If you choose yes, you'll have to register with Add This.
7. Press "Get Your Free Button" button.
8. Next you'll be presented with code to insert into your blog (or whatever you chose in step 4).

Well that's about all there is to getting that button onto your blog. I have not covered each and every scenario in the above step-by-step tutorial (that will make this post too long). Hope you'll manage it on your own. I am always here to help. Just leave a comment.

Thanks for reading. Happy blogging. Have a nice day!