You may have noticed a bit of text and some icons following each post (on their full page, not on the frontpage). I’ve implemented an easy way for readers to bookmark any of my articles via del.icio.us and digg. I picked up the idea from Mr. Veloso, who has executed the same thing quite well on his site. For either of these social bookmarking links to work, you will need valid accounts with digg and del.icio.us. So the next time you come across an article that you think you need to share with everyone else, just click one of them. With the digg link, you will be asked by digg to provide a title and brief description. If you happen to post a link on digg, post a link to the digg page here as a comment so others don’t repost on digg.
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That is a great new feature. Happy new year by the way.
Hah! You beat me to it, was planning to roll that out with the new site & design. But of course, the idea cam from Bryan too ;)
Can you tell us how you did this Paul? Also how did you work that technorati image in?
Can you add BlinkList (www.blinklist.com) as well? They offer the same capability. Mike
Mike, I wanted to add them as well but I’m not familiar with the syntax for submitting URLs. For example, with del.icio.us, I just link to http://del.icio.us/post?url=permalink. I’ll try to find out how to do it for blinklist, unless you already know that would help.
I have a feeling Mike will know. I enjoy your site.
Here you go, Paul:
h t t p://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Description=&Url=[Permalink]&Title=[Blog Title]
Opps, I messed up your layout. Sorry.
Paul: Must get these onto my blog. Have you seen the new features in Feedburner that can put these links in your feed? Very useful. By the way, what Technorati tags plugin are you using – I’ve been meaning to install one for a while now and I just noticed the links at the top of your post. How useful do you find them for traffic generation?
@Gerard: Yes, I know the great potential FeedBurner has but I need to have a clean RSS feed for 9rules for reasons I can’t yet disclose. I use Ultimate Tag Warrior for WordPress and I find that a decent amount of traffic comes from people searching technorati. I would definitely recommend it.
@Ka-Meng: Thanks! I’ll add that in real fast.
Cheers Paul. Must give it a try on one of my blogs. Looking forward to this big 9rules announcement/release, BTW!
Update: I have added a bunch of other social bookmarking services.
Now that is too much! :P
I still have to add Spurl and Simpy. :-P
You pimp!