Many content websites today carry social networking / bookmarking buttons that permit the reader to ‘bookmark’ and share a web page with friends via popular social networking and tagging sites – including Facebook, Digg, del.icio.us and MySpace.
Being bookmarked by users has the effect of increasing a web page’s credibility and popularlity in the search engines – each bookmark is a vote of support and the search engines reward bookmarked pages with higher rankings.
Each of the different social networking and tagging sites have their own little submission tools that you can embed in your website code, but a more visually pleasing option is to use a bookmarking tool that consolidates all of these sites into a single button.
The AddThis button (http://www.addthis.com) is a free bookmarking tool that provides bookmark statistics. It can be easily installed by pasting a small piece of HTML code into your website.
You can see what the AddThis button looks like below, as I have recently incorporated it into this website.
Also, be sure to check out an alternative to AddThis: Add To Any – http://www.addtoany.com/
Tags: addthis, addtoany, bookmarking, delicious, digg, facebook, myspace, social networking
Tried addthis, then sharethis, but the alternative you mentioned at the end is way more appealing and the features are SWELL. I am going to give this Add To Any a try and hope to report back. Better write an action list on that one!