SimpleBloggerTips: Top 10 Free Social Bookmarking Widgets for blogger

Using social website like Facebook and twitter is one of the best ideas to get traffic to your site. If you share each and every page of your site manually to the social websites you can get visitors to your site from them. There is an alternative method to share. That is to let visitors of your site to share the pages. For that every social website has code to put on our site. But it is a difficult task. Because you need to find each and every code and have to follow the steps to install them.
                       
ShareThis
ShareThis has a special feature which remembers what you’ve shared so if you share a link on Facebook the service saves a log of the activity into your ShareThis account. It is also available as a bookmarklet as well and can be very useful for the browsers like chrome or those not supporting add-ons. They are also the only bookmarking widget which allows the sharing of content through SMS messages in addition to linking to AIM and email. ShareThis provides analytics and a few ways to customize their widget, but full customization is not permitted. They do however provide a standard icon button, a sharing bar or a rotating icon which makes up a bit for the lack of customization. 


Add To Any
Add To Any provides a great service which detects social services that your visitors use and places them first inside the widget. Its detection methods are not known to the author but I’d guess they are derived from reading the browser history of the visitor. With a simple page design and automatic visitor detection this rates pretty well.
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Moo Socialize
Moo Socialize is based on AJAX and integrates many bookmarks into each blog posting you have. A nifty feature of this little widget is that it doesn’t open your link in a different window or page but a nice and clean hovered layer. Their code offers email integration as well letting you send the page or link to someone on the road. Customization requires some programming knowledge. Screenshot below (click to get to the source page):

Sexy Bookmarks
The Sexybookmarks Widget has an easy installation procedure both for Blogger and WordPress users and has what this author believes to be the best graphics and effects. It handles all the major social networking sites. The code is a bit long, but well worth the extra weight inside your file as this widget combines the best of both worlds (functionality and visual appeal ). Screenshot below – click to get to the source page: 6. Socio Fluid
The SocioFluid widget has a great little hover feature which operates in a Mac-style menu and allows for easy creation using its form. You can customize this widget using many options like the size of the icon, which links you wish to provide and whether or not to have the links open in the same or a different window. Screenshot below (click to get to source page):
AddThis

The first one is probably the most widely used as it is currently in use by the White House and other government agencies. AddThis provides a simple yet effective way to share your post and provide an easy bookmark to your readers. They boast having the largest collection of bookmarks around, support over 50 different languages, use analytics and it’s completely customizable. They even offer a tool-box feature which lets you get really creative. AddThis also offers a variety of plug-ins and extensions for your favorite blogs as well as toolbars for the different browsers.
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Only Wire
Only Wire headlines its bookmarking widget with being the complete bookmarking solution and it syndicates your articles to the web’s top social networking sites simultaneously. They offer a free version and a paid version. The free version is limited to being placed prominently on the content or article section of the website or blog. Their code periodically checks to see if you have kept with your agreement and will disable your account if not kept as well as an advertisement from Only Wire. The paid version has no such restrictions, nor does it have any advertisements.


The Bookmarketer
The Bookmarketer offers a nifty little javascript which can either be pasted into the pages you want or called through an SSI or include stamen to show up on every page of your site. Not the best looking one, nor the smartest, but it is worth a mention. Screenshot below:

Tell a Friend
Tell a Friend provides similar options but takes sharing to a new level by making it easy for customers that love your product to recommend it to as many friends as possible. Tell a Friend can be easily embedded in various blog and CMS platforms or on your website and it has the power to publish your site to so many channels. An account is required in order to get the button.
Screenshot below (click tot get to source page).

Social List
Social List.org is a very easy to embed social bookmarking button, which you can get at SocialList.org.