In Todays world of blogging , social bookmarking has a greater importance for getting traffic ,recognition and attention from other Bloggers .I think you might have seen those bookmarking icons below all posts on my Blogger blog . So if someone likes my article , it would be easy for them to add it to their favorite bookmarking website .

Now I will tell you how you can add Social bookmarking below Blogger posts .

Open up your Blogger templates‘ edit HTML and click on expand widget templates. Now find out this section <p><data:post.body/></p>
of code.After this line Just copy and paste this code .

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&#39;font-weight: bold;font-size:12px;color:#444444;&#39;&gt;If You Liked This Post Do Share it with the World!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;<span class='bookmark'><br/><a expr:href='&quot;http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=&quot;   data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Digg' border='0' src='http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/8896/diggku9.png'/></a> <a expr:href='&quot;http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=&quot;   data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Technorati' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/649/stumbleupondh6.png'/></a>

<a expr:href='&quot;http://technorati.com/faves?add=&quot;   data:post.url' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Technorati' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/8656/technoratils5.png'/></a>

<a expr:href='&quot;http://del.icio.us/post?url=&quot;   data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Del.icio.us' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9328/deliciousae3.png'/></a>

<a expr:href='&quot;http://reddit.com/submit?url=&quot;   data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Del.icio.us' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9793/redditsw2.png'/></a>

<a expr:href='&quot;http://twitthis.com/twit?url=&quot;   data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Del.icio.us' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2369/twitterpg5.png'/></a>

<a expr:href='&quot;http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=&quot;   data:post.title   &quot;&amp;u=&quot;   data:post.url' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Del.icio.us' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/8207/yahoowc3.png'/></a>

<br/></span>

If you have related posts widget in Blogger , it would be better if you can place this code just below that section .

Here I am using Digg , Twitter ,Stumbleupon , Yahoo! bookmark , Technorati and Delicous . Remember to change those social bookmarking links with yours .  Now if you want more social bookmarking sites in your Blogger template, fetch corresponding URLs , get come 24*24 PNG icons and add it just above the last (</span>) line .

The Google owned social networking site Orkut is getting much popularity in many countries, with major share of traffic from India and Brazil. Some social  websites have inbuilt tools to customize profiles with icons, graphics, stylish fonts, ASCII characters, colors and many others. Unfortunately, Orkut doesn’t have any such applications. However, you might have seen your friends using stylish fonts and letters in their Orkut profiles. Now you can also enable this feature in your profile using the simple trick given below.

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Twitter is having a Jabber-based real-time bot twitter@twitter.com , which tracks and distributes millions of tweets over instant messengers like Google talk and Yahoo messenger. The tremendous increase of user base and that too in short span of time affected Twitter servers and they were forced to withdraw instant messenger(IM) updates ,out of service .

So I found few alternative services that could be used to drive Twitter updates to your Instant messengers .

1. IMified :

IMified bot supports Twittering through Google talk , MSN messenger and Yahoo messenger .That is , You can receive  Twitter tweets from instant messenger interface  , after you added imified@imified.com to your friends list .

Update : Due to server related issues , Imifieds stopped public registration .

2. Excla.im
Excla is just another jabber bot that allows you to update your Twitter status by verifying your twitter account , password and adding tweet@excla.im to your contact list.

3. Twitt’d:
I would prefer this one as it supports both sending and receiving of tweets. Another feature is that it supports all most all instant messengers. But in each case , you have to add  the corresponding bots into your friends list .

For AIM,Yahoo! Messenger and Skype : twittd ,
For MSN messenger twittd@live .com ,
For Google talk or jabber twittd@jabber.org

Select a bot and enter your details as follows
/username “your twitter username”
/password “your twitter password“
So now you can post as well as receive Twitter updates in your instant messenger.


For those who don’t know: Twitter is a web2.0 micro-blogging social networking website that allows users to post their thoughts, comments, and opinions regarding their lives or anything in general using text messages of 160 char in length. In twitter, users have their own profile page that displays their latest updates. In addition, tweeters can become “friends” with one another, or simply be a “follower.”The interaction in twitter is real time so theres a lot of fun evolved in it . Twitter allows the users to post tweets through Twitter website, using SMS, through instant messengers (im) like Google talk, RSS,email and hundreds of free third party applications using twitter API.

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Orkut and other social media websites have strict policies regarding the privacy of its users. Users have the ability to block selected friends or non-friends from viewing their photos and videos. So once blocked its will not be possible for others to access private albums. While this may be considered as a privacy or security enhancing option, recently Orkut started implementing a more annoying copy-protection in user albums. Now even friends are not allowed to save Orkut profile and album photos of their friends.

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