Bookmarking with Addthis and WordPress
What is AddThis?
AddThis is the #1 bookmarking and sharing button on the Internet. Launched in September 2006, AddThis has become the standard button for bookmarking and sharing. The AddThis button spreads your content across the Web by making it easier for your visitors to bookmark and share it with people across multiple platforms. Users can bookmark and share your site or specific url via email, Facebook, Ask, Google Bookmarks, Yahoo MyWeb, MySpace, favourite browser and more again… and again. This simple yet powerful button is very easy to install on any site and provides valuable Analytics about the bookmarking and sharing activity of your users. AddThis helps your visitors create a buzz for your site and increase its popularity and ranking.
The wordpress plugin allows easy customisation of your AddThis button automatically adds the button to all your content. The customisation includes Branding , a custom logo , background colour and Language.
Once you have installed the AddThis plugin
in WordPress edit your theme stylesheet and add .addthis { float:right; clear:both; } to the stylesheet. The changes to the stylesheet need to be included to the plugin template as well.
- Go to Plugins
- Look for the Addthis Plugin and click Edit
- Press Ctrl+F on your keyboard and find <a href or look for the line with <a href
- Change the <div> tag to <div class=”addthis”>
- update and test your bookmark button
Why use AddThis or Bookmarking
- Ever Forget a link or needed to share content ? – Addthis makes it easy for your visitors to bookmark and share your content with others.
- Promotes Your Website/Blog – Helps send your content to social bookmarking services and social networks, which brings back more traffic to you.
- Increases Your Rankings – Increases your link popularity, which is a very important factor in increasing search engine rankings.
- Most Popular – It’s the #1 button, recognized by everyone using multiple bookmarking services. Your visitors will already know what the button does and how to use it.
- All in One Service – AddThis Eliminates the need to include a different button for each bookmarking service.
- Easy to Install – AddThis button can easily be installed on almost anywhere within minutes.
- Free Analytics – Provides valuable statistics about how readers are bookmarking and sharing your content.
Tags: Ask, Content, Facebook, Google, Link Quality, MSN, MSN Live, Page Rank, Search Engine, Top Search Engines, Website SEO, WordPress, Yahoo
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