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10 Social Bookmarking Sharing Buttons For Your Site

Social bookmarking is a great way to earn new visitors and RSS subscribers. While you could always take a few hours to submit your own posts to a host of social bookmarking site, it’s better and less time consuming to encourage your visitors to do it for you. It allows readers to engage more deeply with your content and suggest it personally to friends, and it gets around the prohibition of self-promotion imposed by some bookmarking outlets. Therefore, here are 10 social bookmarking buttons you can use on your site.

Add to Any

AddToAny_com

Add to Any allows you to fully customize the buttons with CSS. Further, you can reorder and add new services, and track data with Google Analytics support.

Add This

AddThis_com

Add This features an independent analytics solution to monitor sharing. It supports over 50 social sites, all of which are customizable.

ShareThis

ShareThis_com

ShareThis allows you to pick from text, image, or rotating button options, with a customizable header and link colors. You can easily integrate this tool into WordPress, TypePad, and Blogger.

Socialmarker Bookmarking Button

SocialMarker

This tool adds social share buttons after the text of each article, and automatically fills in the Title, Link, and Text field.

Onlywire

Onlywire

Onlywire is a little different in that it is an automatic bookmarking tool. It’s nice in that it saves time, but many sites will ban your accounts, and the integration with Digg and Reddit doesn’t really work. Also, Onlywire requires the button to be placed on the website to stay in the program. If you use the button, you can customize title, text, and the url of your submission. There is a WordPress plugin also available.

Bookmark Me Plugin

BookmarkMePlugin

This is a WordPress plugin inserted via editing the template.

Social Bookmarks Plugin for WordPress

SocialBookmarksPlugin

This plugin creates XHTML compliant buttons after each post, with fully customized services. You can choose to exclude specific pages and posts from the plugin if you so choose.

Share it!

ShareItJQuery

This is a JQuery Plugin for the Javascript-inclined. It features the ability to toggle and hide a group of social bookmarking buttons with a cool slide effect.

Sociable

Sociable

A WordPress plugin with a nice backend that allows you to customize priority and inclusion of services.

SocialMarking

SocialMarking

Includes a Google Gadget, buttons, and text links.

I hope these buttons get you started on adding sharing features to your website. If you found it helpful, you should RSS to be the first to get designer and developer resources. Or, keep this page handy by bookmarking it on Delicious.


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