ShareThis, the green sharing icon which you’ll probably find in most WordPress blogs, is now available for Blogger platform or any other website.
With a single line of Javascript code, you can help website visitors promote your blog content on social websites like Digg, Delicious, Facebook, etc. Other than social web sharing, ShareThis will let readers forward your stuff via email/SMS while staying on the page.
Now the most wonderful part about ShareThis – when readers share your web content, ShareThis tracks and provides your this information through charts and reports.
You therefore know what content is popular among your readers and how they are interacting with various social services.
AddThis also provides something similar in a drop-down CSS menu but with ShareThis, you can decide what services should appear in the menu and their order.
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Update: If you are on Classic Blogger template, ShareThis will work without problems but for the XML templates of new blogger, consider replacing characters like <, & and > with their respective HTML codes (<, & and >).
Related: Get Rid of Messy Social Bookmarking Icons
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/provide-easy-social-bookmarking-options-for-blog-readers/1775/
Tags: blogger, feature, sharethis, social bookmarks, wordpress, Blogging, Internet
Reader Comments
That’s a much cleaner option that listing a ton of constantly changing social bookmarking icons.
Written by Ed Kohler on 11.12.07
good post! thanks for sharing, this cleans up all that clutter with the different icons for sharing/networking.
Written by Rikki on 11.12.07
But many visitors don’t even care to spend time to comment and promote they just visit and leave..
Written by rony john on 11.12.07
thats why only mega blogs got so many commentors on them because everybody want to link to their blog.
Written by kenirobet on 11.13.07
@rony: and they will “just visit and leave” for many many (and I mean it) posts which your write. Remember that people will not start commenting on your blog straightaway. You need to develop the trust and friendship and than only will people start commenting and appreciating your work..
Written by CompuWorld on 11.13.07
Thanks for the post and the comments. Not only do we want to make it easy for your site but we believe more sharing will happen when readers notice that you can now SEND directly to contacts and friends in AIM, Email, Facebook, MySpace and even SMS. It’s easier than copy and pasting URLs
Written by Tim Schigel on 11.16.07
Today I have got newsletter from sharethis that
New ShareThis update has been launched, Now it facilitates Blogger and Typepad plugins.
Thanks,
Dutt
Written by Dutt on 02.12.08