Travel Blogging Tips: Adding Social Media Buttons

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Travel Blogging Tips: Adding Social Media Buttons

03/9/10

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7 Comments Written by Joshywashington

Using social media buttons to share your content is essential and easy.

SOCIAL BUTTONS, icons that facilitate the sharing of content on your site or blog, are now a mainstay of social media.

It’s not enough to simply produce content, you must have the tools in place to allow your fans to share to their Facebook, Twitter, Digg etc.

THE TOOLS

Sharethis is a useful and popular option for websites and Wordpress.org sites. Notice the green Sharethis button on this page, expanding to reveal social buttons, Sharethis opens new windows to your social sites to share content you like.

Grab social icons at My Social Buttons in a variety of styles and sizes. These buttons are for you to link yourself and will not automatically open a share window.

For more social icons, visit Open Source Hunter for 128 inventive and free buttons.

While you can add Sharethis to a Wordpress.org site, you can’t add them to a Wordpress.com blog.

A good option for .com’rs is Get Social Live. I use this one on my blog and I can vouch. Simply copy and paste the permalink and title of your content and viola!, Get Social whips up code to copy and paste into your blog. Sound easy? It is.

Another great site for icons, images and textures is Webtreats. Tasty and free!

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What social media buttons do you like? Let us know in the comments, por favor.

For more blogging tips and resources, please check our Focus Guide to Blogging.

Tagged under: buttons, free, icons, share, Social Media

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Joshua Johnson aka Joshywashington is a soggy Seattle based adventurer with a penchant for misty mountains and black coffee. Read Josh's BLOG, watch his VIDEOS and connect on TWITTER. He and his wife Bridget operate their New Media production company, Confluence Creative Media from Seattle and L.A.

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Eva replied on March 9, 2010

I use Sociable on my Wordpress blog and AddThis on my Blogger blog. Sociable is extremely easy to configurate as it’s a plugin, but they both do a great job.

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Somchai replied on March 9, 2010

Great Post

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Heather Carreiro replied on March 9, 2010

Bookmarked this one. I’ve been using AddThis and am not too happy with how it works (the Twitter feeds come out too long and don’t work), so I’m ready to switch it up and try something else.

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Wendy replied on March 9, 2010

Super helpful article! GetSocial Live! is really easy to use on wordpress.com.

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Travel-Writers-Exchange.com replied on March 10, 2010

Thanks for sharing this information. Social icons are popping up like crazy on blogs and website. Make sure they don’t clutter your website.

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Rebecca replied on March 10, 2010

Thanks for this info, just recently my started my blog so it’s a handy resource!

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Connergo replied on July 22, 2010

very handy. especially for us Luddites!

Im still trying to figure all this stuff out.

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