Adding Digg, Del.ici.ous and other Social Bookmarking to Blogger - reprise

Adding social bookmarking links like Digg and Del.ici.ous etc to your blog.

I've written several posts that have covered Social Bookmarking and the importance of it in any online campaign. Where ever possible, I've documented the scripting and steps to add such functions as Socializer, Digg and Del.ici.ous bookmarking links to individual blog posts.

I've also covered other SEO areas like RSS Feeds and the correct syntax for these so that your RSS Feed will validate with the largest possible audience.

So I thought it was time I pooled the key social bookmarking articles I've written into one easy recap with links to the most popular and viewed articles I've written:


Adding Socializer to Blogger Blog template:

After struggling to get the code exactly right to create a social bookmarking link using Socializer on my Google Blog, I thought others might appreciate a copy of how I did it and the code I used.

Despite coming across a number of helpful Blog entries, I still struggled. Hopefully, my own aid below will help you out.

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Adding a Tag or Label Cloud to Blogger templates:

Have you used tags on your posts? If you have then you can add a really neat widget called a Tag Cloud.

Tag Clouds display your post tags with the more popular a tag, the bigger it appears. So not only is it an instant identifier of your most popular tags (articles), it can also be used to quickly identify a topic and go straight to all the articles that include that topic (or tag).

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How to add Facebook social bookmarking icons to your Blogger articles and the script required:

I was determined to discover how to achieve this, given the popularity explosion over Facebook. Testament to this is the fact that the BBC now add a similar bookmarking function on all their online news stories.

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Adding Digg and Del.ici.ous bookmarking links:

Webmasters and SEO’s will have to adopt social book marking techniques like Blogs and RSS feeds, building up networks of followers on the likes of Digg and Del.ici.ous to get their content syndicated as much as possible. Some useful hints and the code for adding Digg and Del.ici.ous buttons and links to the bottom of your blog articles.

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Improving your RSS Feeds validation:

Improve your RSS Validation when putting new 'items' into your feed:

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Improving your RSS Feeds validation – part 2 – RSS xml header and footer syntax/script

How to correctly script your RSS Feed so that it validates across as many readers as possible, here's part 2 as promised.

In Part 1, we looked at the correct syntax for each individual item. Today we look at the 'header' and 'footer' script to complete your RSS .xml file.

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Hopefully, the articles above will help you not only improve your blogs social bookmarking and your RSS feeds validation, but like me, you'll also hopefully learn a bit more about the workings of your Blogger template at the same time.

Remember! Always make a back up of your Blogger template (including expanding widgets) or RSS Feed before making any changes. That way, if you get any of the programming wrong, you won't have lost anything.

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Part 2 - Improve your RSS Feeds syntax - SEO Tip

After yesterdays thrilling visual guide installment of how to correctly script your RSS Feed so that it validates across as many readers as possible, here's part 2 as promised.

Yesterday, we looked at the correct syntax for each individual item. Today we look at the 'header' and 'footer' script to complete your RSS .xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>


<title>Fabulous Photo Gifts - News and Information service including Purple 13 artwork news</title>
<link>http://www.fabulousphotogifts.co.uk</link>
<description>Fabulous Photo Gifts - latest news, features and gossip from the gift giving world includes Purple 13 international art sales and SEO articles</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<copyright>Copyright: (C) Fabulous Photo Gifts - Please contact Fabulous Photo Gifts for further information and use</copyright>
<managingEditor>jonathan@purple13.co.uk (Jonathan Crouch)</managingEditor>
<webMaster>jonathan@purple13.co.uk (Jonathan Crouch)</webMaster>
<atom:link href="http://www.purple13.co.uk/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />

<item>
item here – see previous post (click here)
</item>

and at the bottom after the last 'item'
</channel>
</rss>

Remember to watch out for those pesky dates – they must follow the correct syntax e.g. Jan rather than January which is not correct. If you follow the script example above, you won't go far wrong.

You can always validate your feed after you've uploaded it to check you've done everything correctly.

Click here to validate your feed. validator.w3.org/feed/ W3C Validation service is free and offers useful correction tips rather than just telling you where you've gone wrong. Once your feed is validated, remember to keep it so.

Finally, don't forget to change the urls and text to reflect your own feed or site.

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New to RSS? Click here to find out more about how to use RSS Feeds to promote your website or Blog.