At many blogs you have seen the social bookmarking buttons, which by one-click submit your article to the Social Bookmarking sites like - digg , del.icio.us , stumbleupon , yahoo , google , furl , etc.
How does the Social Bookmarking helps ?
By adding these social bookmarking buttons/icons, either you or any of your reader can submit your article to these sites. Now when your article is listed here at these sites , there is a chance that you can get some visitors of millions using these social bookmarking sites.
So in addition to make your site look beautiful and professional these social bookmarking buttons/icons help you get more traffic to your site.
How to add these Social Bookmarking Icons/Buttons to my Blogger Blog after each post ?
Here's the step-by-step guide for you -
STEP I - Goto = Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML > Expand Widget Templates
STEP II - Now find this in your template -
<head>STEP III - Just add this after that tag -
<script src='http://free.blogger.help.googlepages.com/socialbookmarks.js'></script>So that it looks like this -
<head><script src='http://files.bloggerplugins.org/simpletricks.js'></script>STEP I V- Now find this in you template -
<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'>
STEP V- Add the following after this line -
<style type='text/css'>STEP V- Now save template and check your blog, it should like the one I've in my blog here.
.bookmark img { border: 0;
padding:0px; }
.bookmark a:hover {
position: relative;
top: 1px;
left: 1px; }
</style>
<span class='bookmark'>
<table align='left' border='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%'>
<tr>
<td style='vertical-align:middle' valign='middle' width='30%'>
<div expr:id='"sbtxt"+data:post.id'>Bookmark this post<a style="text-decoration:none;" href="http://www.bloggerplugis.org">:</a></div><script type='text/javascript'>showsbtext("sbtxt" + "<data:post.id/>",0)</script>
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<a rel="nofollow" expr:href='"http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' expr:onmouseout='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",0);"' expr:onmouseover='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",19);"' target='_blank'><img alt='StumpleUpon' src='http://files.bloggerplugins.org/icon_sb_stumb.gif'/></a> <a rel="nofollow" expr:href='"http://ma.gnolia.com/bookmarklet/add?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' expr:onmouseout='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",0);"' expr:onmouseover='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",6);"' target='_blank'><img alt='Ma.gnolia' border='0' src='http://files.bloggerplugins.org/icon_sb_mag.gif'/></a>
<a rel="nofollow" expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=3&url=" + data:post.url' expr:onmouseout='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",0);"' expr:onmouseover='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",1);"' target='_blank'><img alt='DiggIt!' src='http://files.bloggerplugins.org/icon_sb_dig.gif'/></a> <a rel="nofollow" expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' expr:onmouseout='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",0);"' expr:onmouseover='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",2);"' target='_blank'><img alt='Del.icio.us' src='http://files.bloggerplugins.org/icon_sb_del.gif'/></a> <a rel="nofollow" expr:href='"http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Description=&Url=" + data:post.url + "&Title=" + data:post.title' expr:onmouseout='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",0);"' expr:onmouseover='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",3);"' target='_blank'><img alt='Blinklist' src='http://files.bloggerplugins.org/icon_sb_bli.gif'/></a> <a rel="nofollow" expr:href='"http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u=" + data:post.url + "&=" + data:post.title' expr:onmouseout='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",0);"' expr:onmouseover='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",4);"' target='_blank'><img alt='Yahoo' src='http://files.bloggerplugins.org/icon_sb_yah.gif'/></a> <a rel="nofollow" expr:href='"http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?u=" + data:post.url + "&t=" + data:post.title' expr:onmouseout='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",0);"' expr:onmouseover='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",8);"' target='_blank'><img alt='Furl' src='http://files.bloggerplugins.org/icon_sb_fur.gif'/></a> <a rel="nofollow" expr:href='"http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?url=" + data:post.url' expr:onmouseout='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",0);"' expr:onmouseover='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",9);"' target='_blank'><img alt='Technorati' src='http://files.bloggerplugins.org/icon_sb_tec.gif'/></a> <a rel="nofollow" expr:href='"http://www.simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do?href=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' expr:onmouseout='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",0);"' expr:onmouseover='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",10);"' target='_blank'><img alt='Simpy' src='http://files.bloggerplugins.org/icon_sb_sim.gif'/></a> <a rel="nofollow" expr:href='"http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' expr:onmouseout='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",0);"' expr:onmouseover='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",11);"' target='_blank'><img alt='Spurl' src='http://files.bloggerplugins.org/icon_sb_spu.gif'/></a> <a rel="nofollow" expr:href='"http://reddit.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' expr:onmouseout='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",0);"' expr:onmouseover='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",17);"' target='_blank'><img alt='Reddit' src='http://files.bloggerplugins.org/icon_sb_red.gif'/></a> <a rel="nofollow" expr:href='"http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=add&bkmk=" + data:post.url + "&title="+data:post.title' expr:onmouseout='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",0);"' expr:onmouseover='"javascript:showsbtext(\"sbtxt" + data:post.id + "\",20);"' target='_blank'><img alt='Google' src='http://files.bloggerplugins.org/icon_sb_goo.gif'/></a>
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</span>
Feel free to comment if you like this post or if you are having any difficulty trying it.
I've used this on other sites but am currently using a template that for some reason has no "footer-line post-footer-line-3" line.
Anyone have ideas on how to get the code to work? MUCH thanks in advance!
The site is: http://consumerama.blogspot.com/