ShareThis is a vital tool allowing readers to share your blog posts and web pages with 2 simple clicks. The blog graphic and beginning lines of the web page or blog post will show up on Facebook profiles, MySpace and many more social networking sites. ShareThis is free to download and quick to use.
First, go to ShareThis.com and select the service you wish to use. I use both. One option is a browser toolbar that allows you to share great content from any web page you visit. You can choose the from Firefox or Internet Explorer versions. Downloading takes less than a minute. You'll need to restart your browser to see the toolbar appear.
The second choice puts a ShareThis icon on your web page or blog post, inviting visitors to share with their friends. This option is called ShareThis for Publishers. There are versions for WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, and a generic version. Once you choose your application, you'll go to an instruction page. Unfortunately, the instructions there are outdated.
Here's how to get where you want to go:
1. Register to receive your reports by clicking the link and adding your email address.
2. Customize your icon settings by choosing whether you want a simple green symbol or a rotating image that shows all the social networks you can share to. I chose the simple one because moving objects on a page are annoying to me. Then you can choose the tabs that will appear when your icon is clicked. You can just leave those checked and move down to Choose Your Social Web Services for 20 or 36 different social networking sites.
3. Get your code by clicking the button that says, "Copy to Clipboard."
To add the icon as a widget in the right column of your WordPress blog:
1. Go to your Wordpress blog and log in to the admin area.
2. Click on Design.
3. Go to Widgets.
4. Go down the left column to Text and click Add.
5. A new Text bar will appear at the bottom of your widget column to the right.
6. Click Edit on that bar.
7. Paste the html code for the ShareThis application into the Text Box and click Change.
8. Drag the text box toward the top of your widget list so the icon will be readily visible.
9. Click Save
To add the ShareThis icon at the bottom of an individual post like this one (my preference):
1. Go to your Wordpress blog and log in to the admin area.
2. Click on Write.
3. Paste the ShareThis code into the body of the blank blog post
4. Type ShareThis Code in the header line.
5. Click Save.
Now the code is in your draft box, available for you to cut and paste it into any blog post you'd like to promote.
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