Adding buttons gives the site a more homemade feel, but it is time consuming to hunt down the links to the different services on the social networking sites. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a third-party service out there that did the gathering for you? AddThis (http://www.addthis.com) offers a multi-bookmark widget popular with many bloggers.
Using a widget like the one offered by AddThis frees you to spend your time blogging. You can choose to show all the main bookmark networks or pick and choose from an extensive list. We’ll configure the widget and then install it on our blog.
<!-- AddThis Bookmark Post Dropdown BEGIN -->
<div>
<script type='text/javascript'>addthis_url='<data:post.url/>';
addthis_title='<data:post.title/>';
addthis_pub='fruitforall';</script>
<script src='http://s7.addthis.com/js/addthis_widget.php?v=12' type='text/javascript'></script> </div>
<!-- AddThis Bookmark Post Dropdown END -->
The AddThis button replaced our group of social bookmark buttons. When the visitor hovers their cursor over the button, a list of social bookmark icons appear. The visitor also has the option to choose from social bookmarks not listed in the main group. A new window opens with a submission form for the service we selected. After the form is filled out, AddThis collects statistical data for us and displays it graphically on our AddThis account page. The icons displayed on the button can be changed on the AddThis site.
You can’t predict which bookmarks your visitors use. Using a multiple bookmark aggregator such as AddThis keeps your posts free of bookmark clutter while giving visitors more bookmarking choices. There are other options as well. ShareThis (http://www.sharethis.com) has recently released the latest version of its multiple bookmark service, which includes tracking. It is available at http://sharethis.com/publisher/.
Showing counters on social bookmark icons is becoming popular. Dynamic counters are offered by bookmark services Reddit, Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia, and Digg. Bookmark services are adding their own counters every day.
Readers can quickly see if a post has already been submitted to a service and can vote to increase or decrease the popularity of the post while still at the blog. We will add the popular del.icio.us dynamic bookmark and examine the features it offers. We will then explore and then explore using Feedburner Flare (http://www.feedburner.com) to show multiple counters easily.
<script type="text/javascript">if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined")
window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious- blogbadge-line';
</script>
<script src="http://images.del.icio.us/static/js/ blogbadge.js"></script>
We inserted a ready made counter bookmark script from the del.icio.us site into our template code. The first JavaScript code snippet will check to see if a link to del.icio.us already exists. If it does not, a special default CSS class is set to control the appearance of the badge. The code is shown for reference below:
<script type="text/javascript">if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {};
Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line';
</script>
Calling the code controlling the badge counter is done with the final script tag. It links to an external JavaScript file stored at the del.icio.us site.
<script src="http://images.del.icio.us/static/js/blogbadge.js"> </script>
The script counts how many times readers have recommended the blog site to del.icio.us using their own script counter. The number shown will increase each time the site is bookmarked by someone on del.icio.us.
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