We all know how Social Bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon can be a real booster for you blog. They can bring in loads of traffic at times. Most of these sites work upon users feedback about a particular content. When your visitors submit their vote in favor of your site, you are bound to get more visitors.
So how do you get more and more visitors to submit your content to these sites? The trick is to make your social bookmarking buttons visible for your visitors to click on. If you would like to use the buttons that you see on my homepage, follow the following steps:
- Download this file
- Upload the bookmarks.php file to your current theme folder.
- Add the code <?php include(TEMPLATEPATH.”/bookmarks.php”);?> in your single.php file just below the content of your posts.
That’s it! The bookmark buttons will look something like this:
Note: The code and the images for the buttons have been provided by Syed Balkhi.
[...] sure your bookmarking options are clearly visible. If you like the bookmarking buttons on my site, see my post on how you can have them on your [...]
Can we choose which bookmarking sites to display or it’s fixed?
Yan
Yan, you can edit the bookmarks.php file
Thus you can rearrange, add your own or take out a few sites as per your liking.
Thanks, Angad for your response. Appreciate it.
Yan
Thanks for the article on Social Bookmarking! Very informative… and timely! Keep them coming.
I am kind of new to social bookmarking but social bookmarks presents great resource when doing research.*`’
social bookmarking is very popular nowadays in the same way that social networking sites are also very popular`.”