Great Social Bookmarking Plugins for WordPress

Social bookmarking sites allow websurfers to save, catalog, and share interesting pages they find online. Social bookmarking is a social media optimization (SMO) tactic that can can send direct traffic to your site, as well as build back links and invite secondary back links.

It is hotly debated among SEOs whether social bookmarking sites like Digg or del.icio.us confer any PageRank or link juice. Many of these sites have the rel=”nofollow” attribute (otherwise known as a “link condom”) which indicates that the destination of that hyperlink should not be afforded any additional weight or ranking by search engines performing link analysis upon web pages.

Some SEOs claim to recieve some link juice from social bookmarking sites. While social bookmarking sites can definitely send traffic, whether or not a social site will boost your search engine rankings will depend on the site itself.

The two social bookmarking plugins evaluated for this website include:

Sociable

The Sociable plugin appends links for your readers to use those sites to the end of each of your blogâ€™s posts, increasing your potential audience.

Share This

Share This is another free social bookmarking plugin for WordPress. This plugin allows visitors to share your content via social bookmarking sites and/or e-mailing the post to a friend.

Unlike Sociable, which displays a busy array of teensy logos from all social bookmarking sites in existence, clicking on the Share This icon neatly pops a box that includes a tab of several major social sites and another tab that enables email.

Unfortunately, Share This doesn’t seem work properly in the newest version WordPress – Version 2.2. Rather than displaying the nifty, 2-tab ajax popup, it redirects you, instead, to another page with a form, which is fully functional.

I am waiting anxiously for the update!
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