Social Bookmarking Widgets
January 19, 2008 by Jon
Filed under Article Marketing, Build a Niche Store, Social Marketing
Social marketing and Web 2.0 are important to your affiliate marketing efforts. I’ve had a lot of success using social bookmarking to promote my web sites and articles. Imagine how powerful it would be if your visitors helped promote your site through social bookmarks too!
I found a couple new widgets that adds a handy bookmark widget to your web sites. They make it super easy for visitors to submit your site to popular social bookmark sites.
Both widgets are completely free, and each give you a snippet of HTML code that you add to whatever pages on your web site that you want the widget to appear.
Add This - http://www.addthis.com/
This widget adds a small button to your web site that can either prompt the reader to “bookmark” the page, or “subscribe” to your site’s RSS feed. It makes it extremely easy for visitors to add the page to their favorites, or add the page to one of several popular social bookmarking sites. It does not allow visitors to e-mail the page to others. I’m currently adding the Add This bookmark button to my Build a Niche Store web sites. I add the widget in the header.php template, so the button automatically appears on every page.
Share This - http://www.sharethis.com/
This widget is similar to Add This, as it adds a button to your site. Unlike Add This, there are not options to bookmark or subscribe to an RSS feed, it only supports bookmarking. It also does not support adding the page to the visitor’s local browser favorites, but it does support all of the most popular social bookmarking sites. What makes Share This stand apart is that a visitor can use it to e-mail the current web page to their friends and family. I’m currently using the Share This widget on my Affiliate Marketing Blog, so you can check it out at the bottom of this post. I added the widget to the blog’s templates, so it automatically appears beneath every blog post.
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