Social Bookmarking Link In Post
As many might already know, one of the best way of building Backlink for your site/blog is adding it to Social Bookmarking Websites. Other than requesting your reader to help Bookmarking it if they find it useful, it's also equally important to provide them an easy way of Bookmarking.
Basically there's 3 types of Social Bookmarking Link which blogger often use.
1. AddThis
Addthis is a free service which provides a simple widget code which you can place into your template.
When users click it, they will be brought to a page of the most popular social bookmarking or feed reader services.
Through that interface, they can submit your site or blog post to their online bookmarks or feed readers. It work best for people whom like simplicity in design where there's only one button at the end of each post.
It also provides a well statistics of the popular posts that are bookmarked.
Register for a free account with them. When you are logged in, click on 'My Account' and 'Get the code for your widget'.
You can either have a bookmarking widget or feed widget, choose a size of the button, and indicate your blogging platform.
Once you click on the 'Get your free button link', you will be shown a few codes that you can use.
2. Social Bookingmarking Text Links
Text links are neat and can easily fit into the Post footer.
But unlike Addthis, it's a more complicated process adding Social Bookmarking Text Links to your post.
Let us take a look of an example of Digg:
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/%22http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=%22%20+%20data:post.url%20+%20%22&title=%22%20+%20data:post.title" target="_blank">Digg</a>
It's to an automatic link for every post, such that you do not have to key in the Post URL or Post Title.
I'm not too sure which of the Social Bookmarking Site you're interested, so lets list a few more popular one:
<!-- Start of social bookmarks. -->
<span style='font-size: 85%;' class='post-author'><br/>
Add Post To: |
<a expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Digg</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://technorati.com/faves?add=" + data:post.url' target='_blank'>Technorati</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>del.icio.us</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Stumbleupon</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://reddit.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Reddit</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Url=" + data:post.url + "&Title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>BlinkList</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=" + data:post.title + "&u=" + data:post.url' target='_blank'>Furl</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Spurl</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=" + data:post.title + "&u=" + data:post.url' target='_blank'>Yahoo</a>|
<a expr:href='"http://www.simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do?href=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Simpy</a>|
<br/></span>
<!-- End of social bookmarks -->
3. Social Bookmarking Icon
If you prefer images instead of text, you can have icons or buttons to represent the bookmarking sites.
The icon links will look like what we're having here in Computwer Tips and Tricks.
You can easily find these popular Social Bookmarking Icons by Google and uploading them to free picture hosting. Replace the Text in the above code with the icons, and you're ready to roll.
But for the benefit for my readers, here's what I use (With credits to TipsForNewBlogger):
<!-- Start of social bookmarks. --><br/>
<a expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='Digg' src='http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z76/tipsfornewbloggers/digg.gif'/></a>
<a expr:href='"http://technorati.com/faves?add=" + data:post.url' target='_blank'><img alt='Technorati' src='http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z76/tipsfornewbloggers/technorati.gif'/></a>
<a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='del.icio.us' src='http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z76/tipsfornewbloggers/delicious.gif'/></a>
<a expr:href='"http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='Stumbleupon' src='http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z76/tipsfornewbloggers/stumbleupon.gif'/></a>
<a expr:href='"http://reddit.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='Reddit' src='http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z76/tipsfornewbloggers/reddit.gif'/></a>
<a expr:href='"http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Url=" + data:post.url + "&Title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='Blinklist' src='http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z76/tipsfornewbloggers/blink.gif'/></a>
<a expr:href='"http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=" + data:post.title + "&u=" + data:post.url' target='_blank'><img alt='Furl' src='http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z76/tipsfornewbloggers/furl.gif'/></a>
<a expr:href='"http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='Spurl' src='http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z76/tipsfornewbloggers/spurl.gif'/></a>
<a expr:href='"http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=" + data:post.title + "&u=" + data:post.url' target='_blank'><img alt='Yahoo' src='http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z76/tipsfornewbloggers/yahoo.gif'/></a>
<a expr:href='"http://www.simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do?href=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img alt='Simpy' src='http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z76/tipsfornewbloggers/simpy.gif'/></a><br/>
<!-- End of social bookmarks -->
Where to place the Bookmarking Code?
Here's the important question, other than placing these Social Bookmarking Links in sidebar, where else can we place it?
Simply follow these steps:
Go to 'Template' > 'Edit HTML' and check the box that says 'Expand Widget Templates'.
Here's the few location to place these code to it to work best (illustrated using default Blogger Template):
1. You can place them just below your Posts and before the 'Posted By' line. Scroll to these lines and place the relevant code at the red portion:
<div class='post-body'>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
<div style='clear: both;'/> <!-- clear for photos floats -->
</div>
PLACE CODE HERE
<div class='post-footer'>
<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
2. If you want it to be just above the labels:
Scroll to these lines and insert the relevant code at the red portion:
PLACE CODE HERE
<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'>
<span class='post-labels'>
<b:if cond='data:post.labels'>
3. Should you want the bookmark links to be at the bottom after the labels:
Scroll to these lines and place the code at the red portion:
<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'>
<span class='post-labels'>
<b:if cond='data:post.labels'>
<data:postLabelsLabel/>
<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'>
<data:label.name/>
</a><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != "true"'>,</b:if>
</b:loop>
</b:if>
</span>
</p>
PLACE CODE HERE
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Blogvertise
As I previously reviewed on Smorty, nowadays there's more and more Pay Per Post Company appearing.
For us blogger, of cause it means more opportunity to earn an extra bucks =)
But there's so many company out there, which is the best?
Personally, I don't think there's such thing as best PPP company.
In fact, it really depends on yourself, and most importantly your luck.
If you do a search for the review for some of these PPP company, some might make negative comment about it, while some might love it.
So it's for you to try and find out.
Recently I come across this PPP company which I find it pretty interesting.
From the reviews and information I found, this company actually sends you opportunity through email instead of you logging in to grab.
Blogvertise is the company.
Of cause, I still awaiting for approval, so I can't really comment about it in detail.
So the following information is from what I find out and read.
Normally when you take up any opportunity or review, you might noticed that rarely any advertiser will request for negative comment and in fact they requested for positive ones only.
But this does not apple to Blogvertise, they pay you for any honest review.
Yes, even it's a negative review.
From what I think, if Blogvertise is willing to pay even for honest negative review, doesn't it means they are confident about their advertiser product or service quality?
Isn't it easier to review something good and introduce it to your visitor rather than cracking your brain thinking what good stuff you can write about it?
From this point alone, I think Blogvertise is worth a try.
So anyone out there had tried it before? Any comments on it?
Or any valuable information to share about Blogvertise?
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Advertlets.com
As you all know Google Adsense recently had removed the 'Click-Able' area of the Advertisement.
I believe due to this quite a number of bloggers income have been affected.
So what can we do about it?
While I was wondering about this question and thinking about what can I do to really have a small income from my blogs, I came across a website using Advertlets.
My first impression is, 'Is this an Advertisement?'.
So I clicked on it and it directed me to Advertlets.com.
The thing that it surprised me is actually quite alot of Singaporean are using it. (I'm from Singapore)
What makes them signing up for Advertlets and how Advertlets do to attracts people?
If you too visit the site, you will notice a banner or advertisement 'We are giving SGD 8800 to 300 Bloggers!'.
Who doesn't get attracted when there's free money for grab?
Of cause I didn't sign up straight away, I surf around the site looking for more information and I search Google for any reviews for Adverlets.com.
The result I found is, quite a number of people didn't actually sign up for the free money give away.
If you compare Adverlets.com advertisement with other, actually the way they advertise isn't purely in text or picture.
They integrated Sponsored Poll into the advertisement.
In fact, they allow people to have the choice to show or hide the Poll.
Normally when you want to earn money with your blog, you will need to sign up with different of advertiser as different advertiser provides different type of advertisement method.
But Advertlets not only provides Advertisement, but you can even get paid for reviewing products on your blog.
For Singaporean and Malaysian, isn't it easier to review on your Local Product than Reviewing those Overseas brand that you might not even hear before?
For Singaporean, if you sign up before 30th Dec, you will be getting incentive as I mention before 8800 SGD for 300 Blogger.
Below are the information:
280 Reviews, SGD 25 each (blogs with more than 10 unique visits per day)
10 Reviews, SGD 60 each (blogs with more than 100 unique visits per day)
10 Reviews, SGD 128 each (blogs with more than 500 unique visits per day)
Just Simply sign up and give Advertlets a Review on your side and instantly you will be receiving the Incentive.
(As what I'm doing now =X)
The way they make payment is by Cheque and the Minimum payout is 100 bucks.
I believe majority of us holds a primary job and hoping to earn and extra income from our blogs while we blog about the things we like.
So why look further for other opportunity?
Personally I'm working towards my own Hosting and Domain so I'm still working hard for a small amount of stable income from my blog.
And of cause, blogging is about Passion, but why not earn with your Passion too =)
Even the world best system can have bugs, there's still a down side of Advertlets too.
Before I sign up I was trying to look for a testimonial section as to know the reviews of people who used this system from their site.
But I didn't managed to find any.
(Or there is but I missed it ><") So for those who wants to know abit more before they sign up, they might have to search Google like me for more review from a person who used this system.
Other than this, this is a highly recommended Advertiser for Bloggers especially from Singapore and Malaysia =)
Click here for the Link to Advertlets.com
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