Last week we covered how to redirect traffic based on their country. This week we will cover adding an ‘Add This’ button to our site to grow social bookmarking traffic. If you are not making it easy for people to bookmark your site on the various social bookmarking sites then you are missing a large amount of potential traffic.

To create the ‘Add This’ button  you need to create an account. Then once your account is created you can select the type of button you wish to use. There are various styles and options for the type of sites you might have to choose a button. Once you select everything the way you want it click on Get Your Free Button and it will output code like this…

<!– AddThis Button BEGIN –>
<script type=”text/javascript”>addthis_pub  = ‘bluefur’;</script>
<a href=”http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php” onmouseover=”return addthis_open(this, ”, ‘[URL]‘, ‘[TITLE]‘)” onmouseout=”addthis_close()” onclick=”return addthis_sendto()”><img src=”http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif” width=”125″ height=”16″ border=”0″ alt=”" /></a><script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://s7.addthis.com/js/152/addthis_widget.js”></script>
<!– AddThis Button END –>

Paste that code in to your site where you want the social bookmarking button to be. Save that file and upload it by FTP to your account. I suggest for maximum exposure that the button be visible near the top of your page and not cluttered by other buttons if possible.

If you get stuck let me know in the comments.