Wordpress: How to Add Social Bookmarking Buttons

Social bookmarking sites can help a lot when used properly, it can add backlinks and help you rank higher in search engines.

This will give people a chance to vote for your blog and your blog will get more exposure. Add social bookmarking buttons to your blog now, here are the steps on how to do it:

1. Go to your Wordpress Dashboard.
2. Click on Appearance and choose editor.
3. You can add social bookmarking buttons to any of your page. It is usually added at the end of your single pages so if you want to do that you should choose the single.php file in your editor.
4. Add following code at the end of your post in the single.php file:
   
   <h3>Want to share the article? Bookmark me at:</h3>
   <ul>
   <li><a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=<?php echo the_permalink(); ?>">Digg</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php echo the_permalink(); ?>">StumbleUpon</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=<?php echo the_permalink(); ?>">Reddit</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=<?php echo the_permalink(); ?>">Del.icio.us</a></li>
   </ul>

You can make it look better by adding thumbnail images beside each link. You can do that by using CSS.

You can also add more social bookmarking sites but not sure if that will work with other sites.

That’s it! You have added social bookmarking buttons to your blog.