Social bookmarking and link sharing is probably the largest source of traffic for most of us. Sites like Stumbleupon and Delicious send hundreds of thousands of visitors across the blogosphere.
So how can we encourage more people to share our links? One of the easiest options is to include a set of links at the bottom of your posts which readers can click to automatically vote for your article.
There are plugins which can do this of course, but that requires you to work with their settings, names icons in their banner and it means having yet another plugin installed on your site.
If you would rather avoid that and have complete control for yourself, then you might prefer to code the links into your theme yourself.
In this post, I’ve written the WordPress codes for 33 of the largest social bookmarking and networking sites out there.
Update (9/11/09): Added in 2 new sites, Design Bump and Design Moo! Up to 35 sites now.
Blinklist
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| http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&Title=<?php the_title(); ?> |
Delicious
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| http://delicious.com/post?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>¬es=<?php the_excerpt(); ?> |
Design Bump
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| http://www.designbump.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?> |
Design Float
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| http://www.designfloat.com/submit.php?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?> |
Design Moo
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| http://www.designmoo.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?> |
Digg
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| http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&bodytext=<?php the_excerpt(); ?> |
Diigo
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| http://www.diigo.com/post?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?> |
Dzone
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| http://www.dzone.com/links/add.html?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?> |
Facebook
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| http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?> |
Fark
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| http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/farkit.pl?h=<?php the_title(); ?>&u=<?php the_permalink(); ?> |
Friendfeed
1
| http://www.friendfeed.com/share?title=<?php the_title(); ?>&link=<?php the_permalink(); ?> |
Google Bookmarks
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| http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&annotation=<?php the_excerpt(); ?> |
Hacker News
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| http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?> |
Identi.ca
1
| http://identi.ca/notice/new?status_textarea=<?php the_permalink(); ?> |
Linked In
1
| http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&summary=<?php the_excerpt(); ?> |
Live Favorites
1
| https://favorites.live.com/quickadd.aspx?marklet=1&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?> |
Mister Wong
1
| http://www.mister-wong.com/addurl/?bm_url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&bm_description=<?php the_title(); ?> |
Mixx
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| http://www.mixx.com/submit?page_url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?> |
MySpace
1
| http://www.myspace.com/Modules/PostTo/Pages/?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?> |
Netvibes
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| http://www.netvibes.com/share?title=<?php the_title(); ?>&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?> |
Newsvine
1
| http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&h=<?php the_title(); ?> |
Ping.fm
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| http://ping.fm/ref/?link=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&body=<?php the_excerpt(); ?> |
Posterous
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| http://posterous.com/share?linkto=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&selection=<?php the_excerpt(); ?> |
Propeller
1
| http://www.propeller.com/submit/?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?> |
Reddit
1
| http://reddit.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?> |
Slashdot
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| http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=<?php the_title(); ?>&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?> |
Sphere
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| http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?> |
Sphinn
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| http://sphinn.com/index.php?c=post&m=submit&link=<?php the_permalink(); ?> |
StumbleUpon
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| http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?> |
Technorati
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| http://technorati.com/faves?add=<?php the_permalink(); ?> |
Tipd
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| http://tipd.com/submit.php?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?> |
Tumblr
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| http://www.tumblr.com/share?v=3&u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?>&s=<?php the_excerpt(); ?> |
Twitter
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| http://twitter.com/home?status=<?php the_title(); ?> - <?php the_permalink(); ?> |
Yahoo Bookmarks
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| http://bookmarks.yahoo.com/toolbar/savebm?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?> |
Yahoo Buzz
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| http://buzz.yahoo.com/submit/?submitUrl=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&submitHeadline=<?php the_title(); ?>&submitSummary=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>&submitCategory=science&submitAssetType=text |
One thing that you should note though is that if you put images into your excerpts, then you should remove the section from any of the links that have it. For example:
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| http://delicious.com/post?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>¬es=<?php the_excerpt(); ?> |
Would become:
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| http://delicious.com/post?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?> |
And that’s all 33. Hopefully it should cover just about any site you need, but if there any others, just let me know and I’ll add to it!
Or would you rather just use a plugin? Do you hard code your links or not?
Custom Search
andrea_r (20 comments)3 August 09
Plugin all the way.
Ömer UZUN (6 comments)3 August 09
Wow. Fantastic! Thank
NeverTooLateGuitar (5 comments)3 August 09
Sorry for a possible newbie question… but then doesn’t that mean you have to put that code into every post which would be a PITA?
Epic Alex (9 comments)3 August 09
You would place these codes in your single.php, so that they are dynamically generated for each post.
And I always prefer to use codes like this than a plugin, just so I get ultimate control over function and display.
Haris (3 comments)3 August 09
You have to add it to your wordpress template under the posts loop.
Che-Cheh (1 comments)4 August 09
Thanks! Very useful
moh_jafar_driver (1 comments)31 January 10
Hi I love love love.
John Campbell (1 comments)4 August 09
For the designers out there you could have also included DesignBump.com and Designmoo.
Michael Martin (1319 comments)8 November 09
Sorry John, not sure how I missed your comment until now! I’ve added your site in now, apologies for not having it there in the first place! It definitely should have been!
Sumesh (39 comments)4 August 09
I use only the three most important links – Stumble, retweet (using Tweetmeme badge) and Delicious – because I tend to follow the less is more approach, showing down a dozen links probably won’t help the readers vote through any of the links..
I second John’s suggestion to feature DesignBump and DesignMoo. DesignBump is looking better and better with the redesign, same goes for DesignMoo too.
Design Float probably doesn’t deserve a place there, they’ve been unstable and unreliable for ages now.
Vikas SN (2 comments)4 August 09
Wow! Fantastic. Thanks a lot for this amazing collection
Web Design Cheltenham (1 comments)4 August 09
Really useful list, this is going to come in really handy!
Blueprint Media Design (1 comments)4 August 09
This is really something useful buddy! Thanks!
UPrinting (9 comments)5 August 09
Wow, this is really useful! I was just thinking the other day about adding a retweet link in our blog. There are lots of other good social bookmarking and link sharing sites here. Will definitely try to look into all of them, definitely worth it. Thanks for sharing!
Luis Lopez (10 comments)5 August 09
Excellent article, that’s gonna help me with the share this part, I’ll try to code myself but i don’t promise anything.
Great post
Piyush (1 comments)6 August 09
Ah finally the perfect list which i was looking for months ago..
Awesome work there..
A big THANK YOU for the links..
Muhammad Siyab (5 comments)7 August 09
I agree with Sumesh. I use a maximum of four links. No need to add clutter
phoenix web design (1 comments)7 August 09
Nice & helpful links for any body who is searching about such a information.
Thanks so much..
Lorel (2 comments)7 August 09
Thanks, will add some links only those that use very!!!
Edgar (1 comments)8 August 09
Thanks!
Useful list.
I use it!
4MIN (1 comments)8 August 09
Very good selection of plugins, thank you for your work.
Alistair (2 comments)10 August 09
Thanks for the list.. Really helpful. Hmm, pros and cos of a plugin.
Tinh (2 comments)12 August 09
Nice list, thanks for sharing
Mezanul (4 comments)12 August 09
Thanks for this useful hack, definitely I am going to reduce one more plugin!
Tomas Laurinavicius (1 comments)12 August 09
Useful list. Thanks!
Craig (4 comments)13 August 09
Brilliant list. Thankyou!!
Anthony Lepki (3 comments)14 August 09
I do try to hard code, but it is so time consuming trying to keep up with who is active, who is not.
Very thank you – will experiment
Terrintokyo (2 comments)17 August 09
this is coming along at exactly the right time: I need to customize site for Japanese and English bookmarks, and couldn’t figure out the way to do it. will start experimenting now.
Thank you!
samuel (1 comments)17 August 09
This is really great. Thanks for sharing, it really means a lot.
Antony (1 comments)17 August 09
Amazing article… Just what i was looking for… I hated having to use the plugins, cos it was most often a pain customizing them. However, this should help me work around and design it my way.
J Themes (8 comments)19 August 09
I prefer to hard code the links myself although I am trying a plugin on one of my sites. There is so much more control when you just add the links yourself plus I try to use as few plugins as I can.
Lens (1 comments)20 August 09
Great work, thank you.
all-batteries-shop.com (3 comments)31 August 09
Nice Post. Thanks!
buybatteryca (14 comments)31 August 09
Thanks for your sharing.
Dane (1 comments)31 August 09
Anyone know share links for Blogger and Wordpress?
Adam (18 comments)4 September 09
You guys rock! This was exactly what I’m looking for. Keep up the good posts!
Ali (5 comments)15 September 09
VERY helpful with adding my custom “share this” section on my blog.
Thanks so much!
Delicious’d!
Jeff (3 comments)15 September 09
I’m building a new plugin for social media on WordPress (and comments) and this really helped round out my list of optional sites.
Thanks for sharing!
Michael Martin (1319 comments)8 November 09
No problem, let me know about the plugin when you’re finished!
Sri Lilitashi (1 comments)15 October 09
For better integration with Facebook you may want to add the following line to the head section of your page:
This will allow to automatically add image to your post.
Gangster89 (1 comments)22 October 09
In the decline of civilization, communities do not go down by the same path by which they came up. ,
Maxx16 (1 comments)23 October 09
My head is cradled in the palm of my hands. ,
SEOCopywriter (2 comments)30 October 09
Bookmark of the day!
SEOCopywriter (2 comments)30 October 09
I don’t see Simpy on the list: http://www.simpy.com
They are one of the very fist social bookmarking sites on the scene, and are an amazing resource. Please consider adding them.
Thanks!
Paul Anthony (4 comments)30 October 09
Sociable rocks the Casbah for this stuff,
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/
Michael Martin (1319 comments)30 October 09
I used to use Sociable everywhere as well, but I prefer doing it manually now because you can use a sprite sheet for the images, and if you have a few different vote buttons at different places around the page, you can use the codes for each of them no bother
Paul Anthony (4 comments)30 October 09
A very worthy point Michael, didn’t even think of that!
Jason (5 comments)30 October 09
No Design Bump? No Design Moo?
Michael Martin (1319 comments)8 November 09
I think that was quite an oversight leaving those two out, will have to add them in!
JohnK (1 comments)5 November 09
Very good and useful article. The task gets more comlicated when your pages are dynamic, for example PHP or ASP .NET. There is a very good article on http://www.softwaremastercente.....codes.html which shows how to do it with PHP without having to work to hard. The code uses functions to get url, title, and description and automatically builds the links for 10 most important social media sites. Your article could be used to extend this framework to support more social networking and social bookmarking sites.
Khantry (1 comments)7 November 09
Nice post.. thanks..
Bill (4 comments)8 November 09
(came via Search Engine News)
Very helpful list. As even the “biggest” sites seem to come and go. Do you intend to do a follow-up post or to refresh the list periodically?
Michael Martin (1319 comments)8 November 09
I refer to this list regularly when I’m working so if I start to find it’s missing sites, I’ll be happy to add them in (Like I’m about to do with Design Bump and Design Moo!
)
Feel free to let me know if you think I’m missing any others!
Hans (17 comments)9 November 09
I prefer make a plugins was manage this socials bookmarking. But, the alternative one was here…
PSD to HTML (2 comments)9 November 09
Thanks for this list. I have bookmarked this page in my browser and del.icio.us so I could use it when requried.
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Gabriel (1 comments)16 November 09
Nice list…but i have a problem. I’ve tried using some of this links on my website http://www.s-article.com and i got some trouble with the Yahoo Buzz link. It doesn’t work as supposed. Have anyone else tried?
aaron (2 comments)30 December 09
The Yahoo buzz link seems to be broken for me as well. Anyone having issues?
Sharninder (5 comments)23 November 09
Thanks for this awesome list. I’ve been looking for something like this for ages now. Now, I can finally get rid off the plugins I installed to get this. I could never get the look of the plugin right anyway.
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Rajesh Kanuri @ TechCats (3 comments)5 December 09
Thanks for the tips.. now i can get rid of the plugins…
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Причем и брюки не джинсы тоже перестала носить.
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nicole (3 comments)9 December 09
thank you!
DesignFellow (1 comments)19 December 09
Nice List.
Thanks
Tony (6 comments)21 December 09
Holy moly! You’re a coding genius! But designer at heart. I don’t know much php, and was sweatin’ beads hoping that your codes would work properly. And damn it they did! Thanks man.
Rajesh (3 comments)26 December 09
Very informative article. I was looking out for something like this to put up on my site. Thanks a ton.
Wordpress Tips (1 comments)31 December 09
Wow, it is so nice to finally have all these in one place where they are easy to find. I have been to lazy to put them all in a spreadsheet where I can easily copy and paste theme while I am designing. But now that I do not have to go scavenging for them all, I will. thanks!
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Tech Maish (6 comments)16 January 10
I love those blogs, which has social buttons.
ocularharmony (7 comments)28 January 10
Thanks Michael, this blog seems to save me quite a bit whenever I’m looking for blog design / coding info for WP.
Michael Martin (1319 comments)30 January 10
Haha, glad to hear it! I’ll try to keep that trend up!
Hugo (1 comments)3 February 10
Thanks! Great Work!
bee (3 comments)15 February 10
i’m trying to add the code [n00b] but where exactly do i add it in the single.php page?
Blazing Wallpapers (1 comments)6 March 10
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