Publicize your blog content
Hola! As I can realize lately I’m getting committed to blogging more and more each day, it’s an undeniable fact of a very obvious build-up of a personal experience in the blogosphere and growth of gained knowledge. I’m reading as much as I possibly can from a various number of many other very good writers out there, discussing the best techniques of blogging, how-to’s, tutorials and other stuff this way trying to absorb as much knowledge as I can, to eventually in the near future master at some point the proper way of blogging principles regardless of the tool for it being used. What I recently concluded is the need of making your blog public, raising the number of visitors and gaining traffic. To achieve this (among many other tasks one should do) it is necessary to use some extra plug-ins for giving to a visitor the opportunity to bookmark your post (if attracts them of course :p).
I’m a WordPress fanatic, you see, and therefore my interest and contribution is aimed towards it. In this particular post I’ve pushed myself a little to collecting some of social bookmarking WordPress plug-ins for sharing post contents throughout many popular bookmarking sites like Digg, Technorati, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, ReddIt, Furl and so on. When it comes to social bookmarking out there exists a very serious number of sites offering this type of service, but they differ from one another based on many criteria, lets say more useful features, user interface and such. According to some information Digg.com is the lead of this list.
Whatsoever, I’ve created a list of those WordPress plug-ins starting from the most popular ones and providing a logo of each (if available), the author of the plug-in, download link and description, read below and enjoy:
Note: this collection is based upon most used plug-ins by many bloggers.
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Plug-in name: ShareThis
Author: Alex King
Info: ShareThis makes a WordPress plugin that provides an unobtrusive way for your visitors to post your site content to various social bookmarking sites, or send a link via e-mail & other communication channels (like Facebook and MySpace) to a friend. -
Plug-in name: Digg It!
Author: Tuggo.org
Info: digg IT! is a widely used plug-in that detects incoming links from Digg.com to your wordpress post and automatically display a link back to the digg post, for people to digg your story. -
Plug-in name: Socialable
Author: Joost de Valk
Info: Socialable automatically adds links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites like Facebook, Mixx, StumbleUpon, Digg and many many others. -
Plug-in name: Add to Any Bookmark Button
Author: Micropat
Info: Add to Any Bookmark Button Lets readers share, save, and bookmark your posts using any service, such as Delicious, Digg, Facebook, MySpace, and all the rest. The Bookmark button comes with a drop-down menu that appears on rollover. -
Plug-in name: Social Bookmarks for WordPress
Author: Apostolos Dountsis
Info: Social Bookmarks is a WordPress plugin that adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts that allow your visitors to easily submit them in a number of different social bookmarking sites. It features an AJAX front-end interface. -
Plug-in name: Social bookmark links
Author: Thomas, aka TwisterMc
Info: The Social Bookmark Links is an online tool that makes creating pre-coded social bookmark links a snap. Buttons include Google Bookmarks, StumbleUpon, Squidoo, Del.icio.us, Spurl, Digg and many more. -
Plug-in name: Social Bookmarking RELOADED
Author: Valent
Info: The Social Bookmarking RELOADED plugin for WordPress adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of our posts and/or pages that allow your visitors to easily submit them in a number of social bookmarking sites. -
Plug-in name: Reddit this!
Author: Ajay D’Souza
Info: JPF Add to Reddit the JPF Add to Reddit plug-in is a social bookmarking plug-in that allows users to submit posts to Reddit.com.
Well, I think eight is more than enough though, for what you need to use is only one of them (I’m actually using two), there may be a few more but it’s unworthy searching for more while one fulfills the real need. For your curiosity I’m currently using diggIT! and Socialable, although Socialable offers a link to digg.com as well, yet I like diggIT! too for it’s much obvious and noticeable, fortunately no interference occurs when activated both plug-ins 
But this however won’t be working alone, let me give you a tip. After activating any of this in your WordPress and waiting for the visitors to bookmark your posts is vain. What you really should do is first become a member of some of either site (to date I’m a user of Digg.com, Technorati and Del.icio.us) and bookmark your particular post first (as I will do with this post after publishing it), then your link will appear on the site and if you’re lucky, users browsing the section where you bookmarked you’re link may want to bookmark it too if comes to their interest. This way the process will float but with the initial step taken by you.
That’s it, enjoy blogging and bookmarking.
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Tags: blogging, bookmarking, del.icio.us, digg, furl, plug-ins, reddit, share, social, stumbleupon, technorati, traffic, visitor, Wordpress
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Arian Xhezairi | March 23, 2008
By Justin, March 24, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
I am currently using the Social Dropdown Plugin for wordpress and have had good experiences with it.
By Arian Xhezairi, March 24, 2008 @ 5:09 pm
Justin, it actually is a matter of favor I’d say, but all of those do the same job more or less, so yeah might be a good one.
If it’s not there (for I’m confused a little) please provide a link for it if you want, I may reconsider including it in future posts