Add an All-In-One Social Bookmarking Widget

After researching the Alexa Rankings and covering the various tips to increase the rankings, I felt it would be beneficial to add a social bookmarking widget to my sidebar. The particular widget I chose from Widgetbox, was rated 4/5 stars by users out of 23 ratings and it had 4254 installs. The appearance of this widget also fits the style and appearance that I prefer for my particular site.

The picture below is what the widget page for this example looks like.

• Blog: enter your Blog URL. I entered mine “http://eazycheezy.blogspot.com/“

• Facebook Profile – enter the URL for your profile. To find this, go to your profile page and look in the Web Address. You should have an id number towards the end of the URL. My Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/profile.php?id=1130026228.” You can use my link and just replace the id number.

• Myspace Profile – go to your Myspace home page. Under the greeting at the top left hand corner, it will show My URL: This is the URL you need to copy and paste into the widget.

• LinkedIn Profile- login to your LinkedIn account. On the left hand side of your page, click on Profile. Look for Public Profile, which is directly above the “Promote your Profile” button. It should be http://www.linkedin.com/in/URL looks like this “

As you can see below, I only entered the User IDs for the buttons I had accounts for and the widget automatically adjusted to remove the blank buttons.

4. Next, click on the green Get Widget button at the bottom right hand corner. You’ll then get a pop up box, that should look like this.

5. You now have options. You can pick from the different sites to add this widget too. You can click on Myspace, Facebook, Blogger, etc. For this example, I want to add this widget to Blogger, so I’ll click on the Blogger logo. Then, click Add Widget. It should then take you to your Blogger Add Page Element screen and look like this.