Social Bookmark Subscription Service

Social Bookmarks is a method of sharing over the Internet bookmarks of interesting web pages that you have visited. When visitors visit your blog you should also provide them with an easy method to bookmark your posts.

There are many social bookmarking sites now and if you add all their icons at the bottom of each post it will slow down the loading of your web page. Hence it is better to add a single bookmark which gives the reader access to the major bookmarking sites with a single click.

You can utilize SBS (abbreviation from "Social Bookmark Subscriptions") Bar from WebTNG. It's as simple as pasting a single line of javascript code into your page (or text widget in some blog software). This blog utilize its service (see it on top of this page). It's fast, easy and free!

Alternatively you can use Share This service. You can customize the bookmark to include the sites you want and in the color to match your blog design. On completion of provided wizard, code will be auto-generated. Simply copy and paste the code into your web page.

Other well-known service is provided by Add This. You can choose your blogging platform as Blogger and click on [Get Your Free] button. On the following page select the code under "New Blog post button - New Drop Down" and copy it. This is a working example of the bookmark button for this site:

If you want old fashioned, manually coding subscription code using HTML of your own, you can find reference to image links and subscription URL in this post. Following chart shows recent social bookmarking service trends (data provided by AddThis).



Based on this chart, at least you should provide button to Google, del.icio.us, and Favorites (this one is actually not social bookmarking service, instead it's a trigger to add opened URL to browser favorite list -- Bookmarks in Mozilla, Favorites in MSIE).