We've all seen the little icons floating around everywhere on the net. Icons for linking to Delicious.com, DIGG, Mixx and all the others. Those social bookmarking sites that are popping up all over the place.

If you own a blog or website, you probably already know that these sites play a vital role in growing your traffic, and helping bring back previous readers. And this traffic is the lifeblood of any successful blogger.


There are a great many sets of social bookmarking icons freely available around the net, but putting them on your page is one thing - getting them to work for you is another. And oddly, while social bookmarking sites themselves rely on people taking advantage of their functionality to stay in business, a lot of them offer no assistance to webmasters or bloggers on how to set up a link to help readers easily and quickly add their favorite sites and articles to their bookmarking accounts.

I discovered this myself, in trying to set up this - my first serious attempt at a large audience blog. I found it difficult to figure out how to set up the links, mostly relying on finding other bloggers that already had their own links set up, and examining the code. I started taking notes on how the links were set up, because I knew I would be needing these again for future websites - both my own and for my design clients, and then figured I could serve the blogging world by sharing this information with everyone.

So here it is, my first exhaustive list of Social Bookmarking links. They are set up to copy and paste the code right into your own site or blog, the only thing required being that you change the parameters to fit your own site's address (URL) and sometimes the name.

Where an item is enclosed in brackets [LikeThis] you are meant to replace the contents with your own. So if it says [title], you replace that - including the brackets - with the title of your page or article.

&title=[TITLE] becomes &title=This is my website


THE LIST

Delicious.com
http://www.delicious.com/post?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

StumbleUpon.com
http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Digg.com
http://www.digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Design Bump
http://www.designbump.com/submit?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Technorati.com
http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=[URL]

Facebook.com
http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=[URL]&t=[TITLE]

Google Bookmarks
http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Newsvine
http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save?u=[URL]&h=[TITLE]

LinkedIn*
http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Reddit
http://reddit.com/submit?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Dzone
http://www.dzone.com/links/add.html?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Blinklist*
http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Url=[URL]&Title=[TITLE]

PlugIM
http://www.plugim.com/submit?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Mixx
http://www.mixx.com/submit?page_url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Slashdot
http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Spurl
http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

DesignMoo
http://designmoo.com/submit?url=[PERMALINK]&title=[TITLE]


* Where there are capital letters in the URL of the bookmark host, do not change these. Changing the case will cause the link to fail. The capital 'A' in the LinkedIn url shareArticle http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle? is required. 'sharearticle' will not work.

Labels: blogging, social bookmarking, tutorials, web design