Get Rid of Messy Social Bookmarking & XML Icons with Add This

Written by Amit Agarwal on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Text Size

Most bloggers and site visitors are no big fans of pasting too many XML Feed Subscriber Buttons (like Add to Google, Subscribe in Bloglines) and Social Bookmarking Icons (like Digg This, Add to Furl, etc) since they make the site look ugly.

And site visitors who would use these bookmarking services like Digg or Furl usually know how to add items to their accounts and don't need your favicons.

There is however a neat one-size-fits-all solution [a live example is shown above] called the AddThis button. It supports most bookmarking services and feed readers. You can either use AddThis on your webpages or inside email messages.

The interesting part here is that Add This provides statistics to bloggers about what content is collected the most on their website, blog, or email messages. That's a big advantage over competing sites like Feed Button.

For surfers, AddThis can help you reduce the Bookmarklet clutter on your Browser toolbar by consolidating all the social bookmarking icons into a single icon. Give it a shot.

Add This! | Screencast Demo | Browser Button

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Reader Comments

Amit,

Thnx for the info.

Will check this out later.

Written by Vijeesh Ravindran on 28/11/06 11:35 PM

Great post,

Amit, how can i change my blog's post page title? I mean like this;

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from

Digital Inspiration: Get Rid of Messy Social Bookmarking & XML Icons with Add This

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Get Rid of Messy Social Bookmarking & XML Icons with Add This: Digital Inspiration
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In blogger, blog title comes before post title. How can i change that? And how can you add post title to the keyword meta tag.

Thanks for all infos again.

Cheers.

Written by Escaper on 29/11/06 11:52 AM

It's crazy how much useful stuff I find here. Thanks for all the great info.

Written by gr8face on 2/12/06 3:20 AM

A fantastic tool. Thanks for providing the link. I was attempting add these individually with mixed success. This makes it so much easier. I'll be adding this to my blog.

Written by Michael Schaffner on 31/12/06 11:11 AM

This is an awesome tip. I've just added the buttons to www.andrewcairns.com and they look fabulous. Loads less clutter and a nice, polished look.

I have asked addthis.com if they could make a button for comments, too. That's about the only improvements I can think of.

Are you willing to share how you added them to the bottom of yur FeedBurner feed?

Written by Andrew Cairns on 28/1/07 3:04 AM