100 thoughts on “Social Bookmarks for WordPress.com Blogs”

1. Hi,
   so is there no way to include digg in the sidebar, as you have done on this blog?
   Thanks

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   • What I did was capture an Digg icon image and then uplaod it and link it to my profile. Then I placed it in a text widget in my sidebar. You could use an image widget if you prefer.
     http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
     http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/image-widget/

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2. The link that you have added in this post about the archfx in the “Social Bookmark Sets for WordPress.com Blogs section” point no. 1, that link shows a 404 error. Is there any alternative link that you have ?

   Thanks,
   Arnab.

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   • I have updated the post. At the very beginning of the post you will find that the alternative is to use the sharing buttons provided by wordpress.com. See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/

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3. I scanned the comments and didn’t see what I’m about to say. I apologize if I missed it somewhere.

   I run a photography-related blog on WordPress.com and I’ve been trying to find the most elegant solution to adding social networking icons to each post. I came across your article and thought I had the best answer. But…I didn’t. After researching how to take off the new “tweet this” button at .com, I came across their sharing options. You can find it under settings/sharing. You can choose which services to enable, including all the big ones. There is also a place to add a social network if the one you want isn’t listed. Included is an email and print icon. Pretty great!

   It’s a million times easier than using the services above for each individual post. This way, they’re automatically tacked onto each post. Not sure if this is also for .org users, but thought I would help out the .com users. Great article, though.

   [sentence removed by timethief]

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   • Hello! This post was published in April 2010. This morning ie. August 24, 2010 WordPress.COM added new options for “sharing”. Consequently, I have updated the post with the link to the instructions and video for using them on our posts. As we can see what the sharing option buttons display like in the support documentation and in the video, I removed your last sentence in your comment. Do be aware that none of these social networking additions to WordPress are a surpirise to me. More will be rolled out as BuddyPress is integrated into wordpress.com.

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     • @timethief:

       Thanks for posting the update to this. I think it’s an “about time” decision from WordPress. This will make things much easier for their .com bloggers. I don’t think we are looking to be surprised, just able to keep up with the trends in Web publishing. Thanks again. I’ve got your RSS feed and appreciate your articles. Keep it going.

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5. Thanks for this great summary. Helped a lot!
   Do you – or anybody else – know if wordpress.com will add any social bookmarking widgets in the future? It is nice that wordpress.org has tons of plugins, but the wordpress.com widgets are kind of limited…

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   • I’m sorry but we Volunteers in the forums don’t have any news or information that all other wordpress.com members have. In other words we haven’t a clue about what’s coming down the pipe next.

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6. wew…this very useful article i think..social bookmark is very helpful to raise the traffic of my blog..hihi

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7. timethief,

   Thank you for this helpful information. I just added a social bookmark widget to my blog. Also, following previous advice of yours, I have set up a second blog where I can try something out first before it is added to my primary blog, which I did in this case. Onecoolbloggingtips continues to enhance my blogging abilities. Much thanks.

   Kathleen

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   • @Kathleen,
     Thanks so much for visiting and praising my blog too. I’ve been taking a little vacation and enjoying the company of visitors I haven’t seen for a long time. But soon I’ll have time to visit your delightful blog again.

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8. hey timethief,
   I missed one thing to mention…If you get to the older posts on my blog, then you will see that even I have written something about Social bookmarking…
   cheers! bye.

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9. Hi,
   I have recently started a new blog, while doing the r & d and ‘how to’ I stumbled on your blog a number of times, then today I decided to give you a Thanks as your blog has helped me in solving many issues related to my blog. Really fantastic work …keep it up. Is it possible for you to check out my blog and let me know what is lacking, surely that will be of great help, but it’s up to you, afterall I can understand there must be so many like me who must be asking you to check there blogs…and you would be busy doing all that. Thanks again…and oh yes here is my blog’s trace…

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   • The blog linked to your username has been deleted. Setting that aside I don’t provide the kind of service you are asking for.

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10. Useful post. Thank you

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    • You’re welcome.

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11. Thanks Timethief.

    So if I want to build a website-looking blog, would you say I should go with WordPress.org and download WordPress 3.0 for more flexibility? The thing is with WordPress.org, I have to know html, correct? I want to be able to do WYSIWYG as much as possible and avoid html coding.

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    • @Gloria,
      My answer is “no” you do not need to have a wordpress.ORG install in order to create a page based structure (website). That can be done on a wordpress.COM blog. All you have to do is change the structure and if you choose one of the themes that does have the cutom menu feature you will find this is easily done.

      Step 1 – learn the differences between pages and posts and the ramifications of choosing to have a page based structure in terms of SEO. See here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/05/12/better-blogging-at-wordpress-com-pages-and-posts/

      Step 2 – Choose to use a theme that has the custom menu feature. See here for the themes list which is continually updated by Staff as more themes become equipped with the feature. Currently, the following themes have this feature enabled: Twenty Ten, Structure, Vostok, Bueno, Enterprise, Notepad, Paperpunch, MistyLook, Under the Influence, Vigilance, Greyzed, Wu Wei, Blix, Cutline, Freshy, Contempt, Ambiru, Digg3, Koi and Modularity Lite. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
      See also > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/06/17/custom-menus-arrive-at-wordpress-com/

      Hope this helps.

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      • Thanks Timethief for your time and helpful tips!

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12. Hi Time Thief, I followed your instructions and successfully added the social bookmark icons like Facebook and Twitter to my blog. I also tried putting in a space in between the icons but it didn’t work. How do you do that? Thanks very much for all your good tips!

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    • I don’t know why you messed with the code but as you can see doing that will break it. Which bookmarks did you use? (I numbered them above – please tell me which number). Why were you trying to insert a space and where were you trying to insert it?

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      • I used #2 Perlitalabs. I tried to insert a space so that they don’t look too crowded together. I tried to place them in between each icon.

        Is it possible to do this if I am using WordPress.com to do a blog? Or this is only feasible with html coding via WordPress.org?

        I’m new to blogging and trying to put together a blog that really looks like a website (rather than a blog).
        Thanks again for all your help!

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        • Please use the code that’s generated. Attempting to insert spaces is a no-go.

13. Thankyou so much – really worth emphasising that posts like this, with clear “how to” explanations, are so useful for increasing the technical knowledge of laypeeps like myself…

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    • Thank you for reading and providing positive feedback. I hope the information helps you with your blogging. :)

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14. This is really clear. Thanks for doing this.

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    • You’re welcome and happy blogging. :)

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15. Never mind. I figured it out:-)

    Now my question is why do the “share” buttons appear on every post, if I only applied them to a specific post? Is there a way to do one “share” feature for the entire blog?

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    • In my posts above please read what I said under WordPress.com conundrum

      “Although self hosting WordPress.org bloggers can choose from many plugins that provide linked icons automatically on every post, there is no elegant or automatic way to post social bookmark icons at the end of posts on your wordpress.com blog. There is no FTP access to wordpress.com blogs and no individual plugins can be uploaded into them, but several means of posting social bookmarks do exist.

      This blogging platform at wordpress.com is a multi-user blogging platform. In essence all those using the same theme are using the same template. Therefore any edit made by Staff to those templates appears on every blog “wearing” the same theme. We bloggers cannot access the files template underlying our themes let alone edit them to make social bookmarks appear on every entry. That’s why we must generate and add the social bookmarks of our choice manually to every post prior to publication.”

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16. TT, I understand that I need to enter a short URL. What I’m asking is how do I get it?

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17. I’ve tried more than one of these, and I keep having the same, interesting problem. When I enter the perma link for my blog to create the social bookmark , http://sapphiremaiden.wordpress.com/, it comes up with the same blog post – which isn’t even my initial post. I tried entering the URL of a specific post, and the right page will show up, but then the logos of Facebook, etc. show on *every page*, and they all refer to that particular post. (Am I making any sense?) What the heck am I doing wrong?

    I have the feeling it has to do with shortcodes. Although I’ve read numerous articles online, I still don’t now how to generate a shortcode. Once I downloaded it from WP, I had no idea what to do with it. Your help would be sooo appreciated.

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    • The link to your post to use after typing in your post’s title into the social bookmark generator at http://getsociallive.com is the “shortlink” or “shortURL”. Once generated the code must be copied and pasted into the HTML editor, and not into the Visual editor. Aside from those tips I don’t know how to help you.

      1. Copy and paste the title of your post into the generator.
      2. Copy and paste the short URL for the post into the generator.
      3. Select which the social media sites you want buttons for.
      4. Select the style you prefer and click a button.
      5. The HTML code appears.
      6. Copy that code, return to your blog post, and switch to the HTML editor.
      7. Paste the social bookmarking code at the end of your post and “save draft”.
      8. Preview the post and if it checks out then click “publish”.

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18. Hi,
    This post was very helpful to me as i am starting a new blog and have no idea how to add social bookmarking to each post. All blogging resources mention that adding social bookmarking icons are very important but do not mention how to do it. Thanks a lot for this post. Helped me save a lot of time :)

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19. HI Timethief, I needed you about 2 months ago! You really explain the nitty gritty quite well. i am currently on WP.com. I find the restrictions in terms of a lot of the tools, etc, a bit of a problem. Can one migrate your blog to WP.org, or is it just too much of a schlep?

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    • Hello there,
      Sometimes when bloggers “migrate” to wordpress.ORG they don’t really comprehend that wordpress.COM and wordpress.ORG are entirely separate. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

      Can you export your content and links out of a wordpress.COM blog and then import them into a wordpress.ORG install? The answer is “yes” and it’s easily done.
      http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org
      http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/import-export-links/

      However, I have watched many bloggers bomb because they had unrealistic expectations about making income from ads, because they lacked the required skills to manage their install, and/or because they went for cheap and hired a web host that brought them nothing but downtime and grief.

      Figure about $10 to $25 per month total cost for a domain name and hosting. And unless you can get 1k to 1.5k unique visitors per day, every day then don’t expect to even pay for your hosting. Most people I know don’t make much over $100 per year. It’s the ad networks (Adsense and the like) make the money. Those with the ads on their blogs typically don’t. Google makes 50 or 75 cents per click and you make 1.5 to 2 cents per click.

      Besides, with 46.6% of the people on the internet using Firefox With Adblock Plus like I do (now t 82,262,619 downloads,) fewer and fewer people are even seeing the ads. I’ve been using it for three years, and I simply don’t see ads anywhere.

      I have also heard bloggers make the mistake of thinking the backlinks and PageRank that belongs their root blog at wordpress.COM will be magically transferred to a domain if they purchase domain mapping. This is not true.

      The Google Page Rank and Technorati authority and rank belong to the root blog ie. the original wordpress.com sub-domain URL for the blog. If you purchase a domain name and move the blog to another URL all the links will be broken unless you also purchase domain mapping so readers are seamlessly transferred between the URLs. The PageRank on the new blog on your domain will drop to 0/10. That can’t be avoided, however, in about 4 – 6 months time, all things considered you may be able to restore it provided you had a high enough traffic flow in the first place.

      If your wordpress.com blog does attract 1,000 – 1,500 unique visitors and not page views each and every day then hiring a web host and getting a wordpress.ORG install will not result in you making much more money than what your hosting costs in your first year. Note that Google Adsense does not even issue a check unless or until the site earns $100. US funds from ad clickers and typically this takes about a year and in some cases even longer.

      My advice is found here Self Hosting: What’s Your Hurry?

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20. Timethief — you rock my world. I was about to start looking into hosting for my (brand spanky new) blog, then you appeared out of the mist and handed me this! Awesome awesome awesome.

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    • @unbreakablepo
      Thannk you, thank you, thank you. :)

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21. Hello ,
    How do we get a square box ( like the one shown in the beginning of this post ) for social bookmarks .
    .is it possible in wordpress.com blogs

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    • Hello there,
      Please read this section in the post above > 4. DIY Badges as it describes how to locate free social networking icons on the internet and then create an HTML table for our sidebars, enter the icon images into the HTML tables, and link them to our profile pages on the social networking sites. This does not, of course, result in social bookmarks that are post specific that we manually ad using the HTML editor to the end of our wordpress.COM blog posts. For that we must use one of the social bookmarking options above.

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22. Hi! Just found your post tonight and found it ever so useful. I’m relatively new to blogging (about 3 months) with none of the “behind the scenes” knowledge such as HTML. Your post was so well written I was able to go ahead and add the social bookmarks to several of my posts with ease. I’ve been researching how to do this for a few days and it’s so nice to finally have a simple way to do it. Thank you!!!

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    • @designhouse9
      Please accept my apology for taking do long to answer you. I have been run of my feet so to speak. My thanks to you also for taking the time to leave this encouraging comment. Best wishes for great blogging. :)

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      • FYI—I did find that I had to put the permalink in rather than the short url for it to work. Not sure if that’s the case for everyone but it was for me.

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        • I’m surprised to hear that. I use getsociallive bookmarks on my posts and always use the shortlink. I’m also a friendfeed member so whatever is published here is also automatically posted there using the permalink. I wonder why the shortlink did not work for you.

23. Excellent post. Spent the day playing around with GetSocial and it’s great.
    I’ve only check FB and Twitter.
    FB seems fine, but I didn’t like the way the info was sent to Twitter so amended the code slightly and now much happier. It does involve a tiny bit of work.

    Instead of Twitter showing
    Post Title @ WP address
    I prefered
    Post Title (via @twittername) Short Url

    Enter the Post Title and Permalink as usual. Copy and past into your post.
    Then get a tinyurl or other short URL
    In GetSocial, replace the long WP URL with a short URL
    Optional. Add (via @yourtwittername) to the end of your Post Title.

    Then copy the A HREF realting to Twitter and paste it over the previous section. You can also delete %40+ (just before http://) to remove the @ sign.

    At the moment, I’ve only added it to a single post as I’m still checking the code out.
    http://chrisspyrou.com/2010/04/21/michael-mcintyre-wip-leicester-square-theatre/
    Hope this helps.

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    • @chrisspyrou
      Thanks for commenting here and sharing what you did. Best wishes for happy blogging. :)

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      • Thanks and apologies for the late response. After 6 weeks, I’ve continued with the same procedure as described above. WP url for all the links, apart from Twitter where I use a Short URL, including Twitter name.

        I see that for some people getsocial might not work at first. I believe on the odd occasion there might be the odd glitch. This happened for me and the guys at getsocial were also surprised to replicate the same errors. Keep trying and eventually it should work.

        Now the mission is to work out how to make our sites Norton Safe Web friendly. Failed so far.

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25. for must have WORDPRESS SEO plugins

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    • @vivek
      I guess you didn’t read this post that clearly stated that plugins cannot be used on wordpress.COM blogs as there is no FTP access to them. I don’t appreciate off-topic spam comments that are aimed at promoting the commenter’s blog. If you are wondering why I deleted the link then please click this link to my commenting policy and read 5. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/commenting/ I’m strictly a white hat SEO blogger and I remove the links of those who attempt to game search engines and/or to spam my blog with opportunistic pseudo comments.

      BTW as this is the second time you have done this I have blacklisted your site and all the sites you posted links in comments made to my blog post as well. I suggest that you quit the internet and get a job in another field preferably a job on the end of a shovel.

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26. This is a great blog about blogging. Check out the latest resources on WordPress, Joomla Blogging and Search engine optimization.Must visit for joomla and wordpress developers

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    • @vivek
      I don’t appreciate off-topic spam comments that are aimed at promoting the commenter’s blog. If you are wondering why I deleted the link then please click this link to my commenting policy and read 5. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/commenting/

      I’m strictly a white hat SEO blogger and I remove the links of those who attempt to game search engines and/or to spam my blog with opportunistic pseudo comments directing my readers elsewhere.

      P.S. As you have distinguished yourself as a spammer by affecting insincere spammy behavior from this day forward if I receive any comments from you I will feed them to both Akismet and to Defensio.

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27. If things go right, I should have an article up containing my interview with Hillel Stoler, designer of GetSocial and GetSocial Live within the next week or so!

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28. Many thanks TimeThief!
    Appreciate the info on this post, it went a long way to help add the bookmarks to my new blog.
    I searched many other help sites but none matched your simple and effective instructions.
    All the best

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    • @Atticus
      Thanks so much for taking the time to leave me this positive feedback. I appreciate it.

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29. Great article sist. May I add Sociable to your list ? Thanks

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    • @Latief
      Hello there. Long time no see. :)

      May I add Sociable to your list ?

      Actually the answer is no and here is the reason. Check out the title of this post please. This post is about wordpress.COM blogs. It is not about wordpress.ORG blogs.

      There is no FTP access to wordpress.COM blogs and we cannot upload individual plugins like Sociable or themes or anything else into wordpress.COM blogs.

      Many people do not know the differences between the two.
      See > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

      Thanks for reading and commenting too and best wishes with your blogging. :)

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30. Thanks for the intel. Do you think the folks at WordPress.com have any plans of integrating social bookmarking into their blogs? That’d be a whole lot easier than doing it manually.

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31. …. and let me add… visited the blog after a long time and loved the header… again :)

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    • @NITYIN
      Thanks for the header compliment. I change headers frequently. :)

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32. I run a few blogs and use different social bookmark buttons. It’s Add to Any for my travel blog, Add this for my news blog and GetSocialLive for my personal blog and the last one happens to be my favorite.
    Great Post!

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    • @NITYIN
      It’s been a long time since we connected. Thanks for the positive feedback on the post. I appreciate it.

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33. I think add to any is the best tool out there.. But I do not think you get huge traffic that way… My trusted method is article marketing… I do not use any bookmarking icons on my site

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    • @Increase Web Traffic
      You will find the reason for me removing your blog link is contained in my comment policy on this page > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/commenting/ under pint 5. # Commercial links, post links, signature links, etc.

      I’m not impressed by so-called bloggers who leave comments using keywords in the place of their usernames and attempting to drive traffic to the kind of sites that you provided the link to. That kind of practice is prevalent in the make money do-follow splinter group in the blogging community of which I am not a part.

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34. awesome tips. thank you…

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    • @balirand
      You’re welcome. :)

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35. I am totally agree about the necessity of social bookmarking sites. I generate traffic for a website. it is cost effective.

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36. So thats what social book marks are…. :)

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37. HI. I was really excited to try this and I wanted to let you know what I found – I tried GetSocial on a couple of different posts and had a few issues…

    when I was trying to add to FB or Digg it was pulling content from my Twitter feed or my Flickr images as descriptions and thumbnails instead of from the blog post I was trying to share.

    I emailed them and their (very prompt, funny and sort of informative) reply was:

    “in your ‘about’ page you said you liked bullet points, so here goes:
    · I’ve tried GetSocial Live on two of your posts (“don’t tell me what to do” and “you know what I spit upon?”) the later worked fine, while the first exhibited the twitter issue. [comment - the first, that had the problem, had no text, only an image in the post - could be why]

    · Facebook and Digg extracts information from your blog and sometimes there are issues with the Twitter Widget.

    · Photos are automatically selected from your posts and your sidebar by Digg/Facebook.

    · Both issues are related to the WordPress/Facebook interface, there is nothing I can do to GetSocial that will resolve these issues.

    · I hope the WordPress team will resolve this issue soon.

    Hillel :)”
    So maybe I just won’t add it when I have images only, or will play around with some other options.

    After I drink more coffee.

    thanks again for the info, with some tweaking I’m sure it will be great.

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38. thanks, please try sociable, a good plugin

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    • @helmy
      Apparently what I said in this post sailed over your head. There is no FTP access to wordpress.com blogs and no plugins can be installed in them.

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39. thats exactly what i needed. thx man!

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    • I’m glad to hear you found what you needed. You’re welcome.

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40. Hi timethief

    Your tips are always great — but this one is awesome. I had started to get lazy and put the share buttons in a side widget instead of adding them to each post.

    Perlitalabs is my new favourite — I didn’t know it existed before I read your post. I will use it in all my posts going forward (and may even add it in to the older ones if I get ambitious this weekend!)

    Many thanks.

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    • @Susan
      Hello. It’s always good to meet a regular reader. :) I’m so happy you found the buttons you liked best. Happy blogging.

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41. Good on you for helping bloggers on WordPress.com blogs get the ability to share their posts by displaying the appropriate social bookmarking icons. I’ve personally have never had a WordPress.com blog and so can not imagine what it must be like to not have the resources of all the available plugins. Sort of makes me wonder why they persevere with it all.

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    • @Sire
      Hi there. WordPress software is superior software to the others I have tried. I have both a wordpress.ORG install and a wordpress.COM blog and they are both on my own domains. The limitations of being on a wpMU (multiuser) blogging platform are not that onerous. The one that is the barrier to most is the inability to advertise and use javascript but that doesn’t phase me because I don’t monetize my blogs. :)

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42. I use an AddToAny bar that I manually add to the bottom of each post. Seems to work well.

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    • @worddreams
      Thank you so much for posting. I really appreciate it. I love you readers. :) I will edit the post and insert the AddToAny badge as well. :)

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43. Hey timethief!

    I also use social bookmark sets at the end of my posts however, its not one of those sets you featured.

    I use the social bookmarking and sharing widget button of AddThis.com. I find it more complete than any other bookmarking sets. What do you think about the service of AddThis?

    Cheers!

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    • @RogueHero
      Wow! I forget all about the Addthis widget. :( I’ll edit the post and include it. Thanks for the heads up.

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      • Oh,

        I thought it wasn’t worth using that’s why it wasn’t included in your post. But anyway, I’ll consider the other widgets and buttons.

        Cheers!

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        • @RogueHero
          Nope … I just plain forgot about AddThis and AddToAny but my eagle eye readers prompted me and I edited the post to include them. ;)

          I’m not suggesting that anyone overload their sidebars with social networking widgets. As they do not include the link to a specific post IMO they serve no useful purpose and can slow page loading time.

          I’m a minimalist and when it comes to widgets less is more. Unless they provide resources for readers I don’t use them. Also Google has just announced that page loading time is a factor in page ranking so lots of bloggers who have sidebars full of novelty widgets will be feeling the impact of the choices they made in the next page rank update.
          http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/01/02/widgets-less-is-more/
          http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/06/13/blogging-strategies-for-reducing-page-loading-time/
          http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/11/15/page-loading-time-a-new-ranking-factor/

      • I managed to add AddToAny bar at the end of a post once I realized I had to go to the site to get the button. :-) First I was inadvertently trying to add the image from your post. :-) Yes, I am totally technologically backwards! But all’s well that ends well! I did it! And it was totally easy once I got past my first snafu. Thank you, timethief!!! I’ll check out those videos too.

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        • @Sandra Lee
          I’m happy to hear you found what you needed and got it to work for you. :)

44. Hi @ Timethief, I just tried it and it was easy- even for me! Thank you for posting =D

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    • Yay! You succeeded. :)

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45. Sorry for so many comments…you can delete them if you want…
    Just wanted to share with you the code I am using to add the tweetmeme button…tell me if I am doing something wrong.

    [tweetmeme source= ”@zeenatsyal” http://wp.me/puhcL-z6%5D

    As I said in the previous comment….the @zeenatsyal keeps changing to ~Positive Provocations~…..

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    • @Zeenat
      Hmmm … please see my comment above and please let me know if you find a solution.

      P.S. Did you know that if you click “reply” on any comment that your comments will “nest”?

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46. p.s. am able to now add the tweetmemebutton..but where I am putting the twitter username…my blogs name automatically appears. I tried deleting the code and reinserting it..but it does the same thing..it automatically says ~Positive Provocations~ instead of @zeenatsyal
    Help… :)

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47. A great post! using social media icons is a really important if you want to get some extra traffic. I had around 1000 visit a day when i used stumbleupon icons and so i agree with your point :)

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    • @Gautam Hans
      I find that when one of my posts is stumbled I do get new readers who have never read my blog before who discover it and return. Albiet the majority don’t. But every new reader counts and when they also provide feedback by commenting than I’m better able to blog on subjects that interest them most in a manner that better suits their needs.

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48. Hey,
    This is a great post..with alot of social bookmarking and sharing detail. As you have recommended earlier..I have started using getsocial…and am so happy with it. Thank you for that.
    The thing I have been trying to do is add a tweetmeme button to my posts…but have been unsuccessful. What do you think I may be doing wrong?
    Much love,
    Z~

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    • @Zaanat
      Although many wordpress.com bloggers have had no trouble with the tweetmeme button I am not among them. I have yet to be able to get it to work on my blog. The image appears and looks operational but when clicked the message is “invalid URL”. I have used both the long version and the short URL without success so I set it aside to worry about on another day. I’m sorry I cannot be more helpful and if you figure out how to get it to work please let me know.

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49. Of course there is nothing to stop [you] adding it to posts that have already been published, of course.

    Just for the fun of it, I tried it with the currrent post on my original site at photographworks.wordpress.com

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50. This is all foreign territory for me having lived in a another country for three years away from the internet. I appreciate the thorough introduction. I will probably need to take my time with this, but often I find things are easier than they seem at first. I just got my own domain name (thanks for your encouragement), but am still free-hosted on wordpress.com so it’s helpful to be reminded of the parameters.

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    • @Sandra Lee,
      Hello there. It’s good to hear from you and I’m happy to hear about your domain. You won’t regret the choice you made just don’t skip a renewal. :)

      For a great introduction to social media and social networking I recommend watching the 3 very short videos in this post.
      http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/09/22/social-media-and-social-networking-plain-and-simple/

      Thanks for the feedback and happy blogging.

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51. Awesome! I look forward to learning more.

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    • @Ted
      That’s good to hear because many don’t recognize the differences between wordpress.ORG software installs for self hosting and free hosted wordpress.COM blogs.

      In a nutshell WordPress.com is a hosted blog service on a muliuser blogging platform (wpMU). WordPress.com provides free blogs which they free host. You do not have to download software, pay for hosting or manage a web server.

      WordPress.com does not permit FTP access to blogs and uploading themes or plugins or advertising. You cannot edit your template. There are code restrictions. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/ Only certain types of blogs are allowed http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/ and wordpress.com blogs cannot be equipped for ecommerce.

      WordPress.org is free software. You can hire a web host, install themes and plugins, run advertising, edit the database and equip a WordPress.org blog for ecommerce. Read more here > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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