Social Bookmarking Tags in Blog Posts (Bloggeries)

[Bloggeries]

Just curious if anyone here uses social bookmarking tags in their blog posts? I see it everywhere but heard you have to register each post with each service which could be QUITE time consuming. I've also heard there is a script which does it automatically?

Not sure what to believe; I know someone here has done it or one of you guests reading this .

Looking forward to hearing your experiences and thoughts regarding social bookmarking tags in your bloggeries.

Thanks,
Rob

[LennyP]

I tried it on my blog before. As far as I know there is not a plug-in that will you to submit the post to multiple sites at once. I wouldn't bookmark each post anyway, I would stick to the ones that you feel have the most to offer. submitting every last post you write can start to make you look like a spammer.

[Bloggeries]

Originally Posted by LennyP

I tried it on my blog before. As far as I know there is not a plug-in that will you to submit the post to multiple sites at once. I wouldn't bookmark each post anyway, I would stick to the ones that you feel have the most to offer. submitting every last post you write can start to make you look like a spammer.

I hear ya, just you see on lots of blogs now the addon / extra that allows you to social bookmark any post. The only picking the best ones would be more applicable to Digg or Stumbleupon?? On that note I should get on those as well. Do you have any experience with them?

Rob

[LennyP]

I have tried both Digg and StumbleUpon. From my experience, StumbleUpon does not convert well. Digg has the potential, but I have not had any successes to share. They tend to gravitate towards technology and the same "in" crowd.

[greenmamba]

I always add the 'Addthis' plugin on my Wordpress blogs as a standard plugin. It is unobtrusive so that it doesn't overwhelm the post with tons of chicklets but it still offers access to most of the popular social bookmarking sites in one go.

[butternyk]

there is just 1 auto plugin that gooes on submiiting each post to 20 odd bookamrking sites--giving u relevant comments and traffic .. the manual plgins that we install-- are of use--- but most of us dont use it-- becaeu its albourous job and require to login to each site

[petercasier]

I use "addthis.com" plugin, and it works wonders (traffic wise!). It is a bit of hacking to put it automatically underneath each post on the blogger platform.

I also have the "addtoany.com" plugin on the side bar. It is less flexible.

Both are easy to use, and let the reader publish the post quasi easily (depending on the features and user interface of each social bookmarking site).

Peter

The Road to the Horizon
About being a serial expat, addicted traveller and passionate aid worker.

[Boss1345]

I think its a wordpress plugin...at least thats what I heard. I'd like to have at least a few social bookmark places after each post just in case a reader wants to add it. I tried the addthis but never got it to work with every post.

From what I can see, each little icon that links to the social bookmark place is just there for some one to click and add it. If you are already logged into the place it should work without too much work. Otherwise they aren't added to each social site unless a reader clicks and adds it.

I might just grab a few posts and add them and then stick the reddit or digg icon on just those few posts instead of on the side bar or each post.

[Mom2dm]

I am kind of new to the blogging thing, so I am not really aware of this, but it is interesting!

[flashgordon]

I don't have the social bookmark plug in on my blogs (their blogger anyways), but I do socially bookmark my posts. Of course, I only do it on the ones that are DoFollow; I'm not really into it for traffic as most don't seem to convert that way very well.