Combing your website’s unique content with the popularity of social networks and social bookmarking sites can drive a lot of new traffic to your site. There are many applications out there for doing this, but the most convenient and well established is the ShareThis application. It is a customizable javascript that you can place on your site manually or through a plugin that allows visitors to easily share a link to your page on a wide variety of social networking services. The benifits of this should be pretty obvious. Here are a few tips on integrating a ShareThis bug on your site.
- Place it close to the content they will be sharing, either at the top or bottom of the article, or even both.
- Stylize it to match the look and feel of your site through your site’s CSS.
- Simplify the options down to the social media tools you think your target market will be using.
Get the code for the bug from the website at http://sharethis.com/
