Have a Blog? Than You Need Sociable.
September 11th, 2007More specifically, if you have a WordPress blog. However, if you have another type of blog or any article-driven site, you should look into a different way of implementing this.
Anyways, what is the “this” that I am talking about? It’s Sociable, a plugin for WordPress. From their site:
Social bookmarking sites allow websurfers to save, catalog, and share interesting pages they find online. The Sociable plugin appends links for your readers to use those sites to the end of each of your blog’s posts, increasing your potential audience.
Social bookmarking sites have become huge recently, and their importance to webmasters should not be underestimated. Sites like Digg.com, Technorati.com, del.icio.us, and StumbleUpon.com are used by thousands of users every day to view updates on their favorite sites or share particularly good links with others. Right now you should be thinking jackpot. This is a very easy way to get your site out to thousands of users and generate lots of backlinks through the user – but you have to make it easy for the user to do. They are not going to want to manually go into their social bookmarking sites of choice and tediously paste and submit the URLs of sites / articles that they like.
This is where Sociable comes in. Install the plugin into WordPress and viola! You immediately have the option of adding over 60 buttons that link to all the popular social bookmarking site’s “save/publish this” option, like “Digg This” or saving a blog post on Technorati. Easy as pie! As you can see, AbstractPromotion.com uses Sociable.
The moral of this post: make it as easy as you can for your readers to do promotion for you.
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By Eric K on Sep 11, 2007 | Reply
I never even thought of this. I had the “Digg This” button at the end of my articles, but that was it. Think of all the potential exposure I was missing out on! Thanks a ton.
By Jessie Walker on Sep 11, 2007 | Reply
I added this plugin a couple of months ago and I saw a jump in my traffic, plus a ton more backlinks. Great stuff!
By Alex R on Oct 7, 2007 | Reply
Never thought of using those. Maybe I should? Couldn’t hurt to give it a shot!
By Nick on Oct 7, 2007 | Reply
Definitely, Alex. No one will go to Digg or Technorati and manually submit your URL, but if given a one-click button, then…who knows ;)