social networking plugins on blogs

[HunkyLuke]

do you use the "Add To Twitter / Facebook" type of plugins on your blogs? If yes, do you see much traffic or other benefits from using these?

And, finally, any one have code that will work for adding this type of plugin to a Blogs Organizer blog?

[zBUCKzDanny]

We use 'addtoany' which works just fine with BlogOrganizer.

It is also handy when I want to quickly add posts to my own twitter accounts, and affiliates can do the same. When the affiliate runs the RSS Feed on their blog and the 'AddtoAny' code appears, it automatically has the URL of their blog, so it works great for affiliates to add to their own Twitter or social networking accounts.

[PFLJayden]

This is off subject but is still on subject....
GayTube has that feature on their site. Whenever one of our videos goes live for our sponsor account we tweet it on Twitter.
We do see sales come in this way, but it's not easy to pinpoint if that is working or not.

Per the blogs, we've been looking for something like this on a new blog we're starting so I too am curious to know the results.

[HunkyLuke]

Danny, thanks for the tip, I will check out addtoany.

It sounds like this will generate more inbound links from social networking sites if nothing else, and given that SEO is counting these links with more importance, I think its worth implementing!

[HunkyLuke]

ok with a bit of tweaking I was able to get the following code to work on my blogs organizer blogs, using the %%CLEAN_LINK%% and %%CLEAN_TITLE%% tokens:

<!-- AddToAny BEGIN -->
<a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=%%CLEAN_LINK%%&amp;linkname=%%CLEAN_TITLE%%"><img src="http://static.addtoany.com/buttons/share_save_256_24.png" width="256" height="24" border="0" alt="Share"/></a>
<script type="text/javascript">
var a2a_config = a2a_config || {};
a2a_config.linkname = "%%CLEAN_TITLE%%";
a2a_config.linkurl = "%%CLEAN_LINK%%";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.addtoany.com/menu/page.js"></script>
<!-- AddToAny END --> 

Because I used those tokens, it will automatically replace the title & URL with the post title and post URL.

Danny, is this the code that you use for your hosted blogs and rss feeds too? Will this carry through to the affiliate's blog and replace the values with theirs?

[zBUCKzDanny]

Hey Luke,

Your code with tokens actually looks better then what I've been using for SEO purposes. I'll try a sample post with your code and see if it is working correctly with affiliate's blogs. Thanks!

Dan

[zBUCKzDanny]

Luke,

I just tried your code but it didn't work with Twitter, it posted this link rather then the link to the blog:
http://%%clean_link%%/

Going to try a few tests and will get back to you on this once I have it figured out!

Cheers
Dan

[zBUCKzDanny]

Going to email you on this...want to figure out how you got that to work with Blog Organizer. ;-)

[HunkyLuke]

yeah it took me a few dozen tries to get the correct code to finally work with the javascript. By using clean title & link you get only the title and URL without any "a href" stuff around it.

oh, I forgot to mention that this is in the Post Template, and to make sure you use the same CAPS as is shown in the Available Tokens just above the Post Template.