Comments on: Social Bookmarking Button Madness

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:36:00 +0000

Thanks for the article this is very useful. I added the iframe code from my site and when people like my blog, showing my title of home page instead of the definite article title / cover page of the message that they liked.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:36:00 +0000

By: techunit

techunit — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:11:48 +0000

Well I think that if it works with the theme then its fine. I think that you should have only a few on each post and make them small. Then on you website itself off to the side you can have bigger ones. I don’t know I think mine complement my blog because they are low key and simple. Take a look at my blog if you like and tell me if I am wrong

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:53:52 +0000

Interesting. I read this after the news of the Facebook ‘Like’ button being introduced. It seems we’re going through this phase again in 2010 where sites are putting buttons for Twitter and Facebook everywhere. Wouldn’t you rather put content or an ad in its place?

Google also dings your site if you have too many widgets pulling from other sites. I don’t see the benefit.

By: Billy Girlardo

Billy Girlardo — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:21:33 +0000

This article is pretty funny when you have a whole column of them in your sidebar lol.

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How Many Social Media Icons Is Too Many? | TheVanBlog | Van SEO Design — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:05:39 +0000

[...] the use of social media bookmarklets the earliest complaints were from Chris Pirillo’s post Social Bookmarking Button Madness. These buttons are annoying more than anything else, serving to show the world just how unpopular [...]

By: technology and video games geek

technology and video games geek — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:21:52 +0000

I think it is the traffic craze. Everywhere says add social bookmarking for your visitors to help them promote your site and stuff. I am pretty sure though that it does not work that way…ohh what the hell.. i l ll use just one… :-)

By: The Serrano Boy

The Serrano Boy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:44:03 +0000

I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO USE THIS. hehe

By: Web Digger

Web Digger — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:49:31 +0000

I agree they are a waste of space the way people use them AND they direct traffic away from your site when people follow them. People miss the whole point of social bookmarking sites like Digg and Sphinn from a marketing perspective. The goal is to get lots of people top vote for one story, not to create the same story loits of times. These guys explain it better –

http://www.demonzmedia.com/DemonzBlog/?p=8

Basically if you don’t have all of your visitors voting for the story and THEN (and this is very important) returning to your site, you are unintentionally driving visitors away from your site and making sure your stories are getting buried within whatever social network people may be using. It’s the same old flawed logic as the ‘Bookmark this Page’ link from many old web pages – if people use social bookmarks they don’t need to be reminded that they’re there.

By: Calvin Michel Sidjaja

Calvin Michel Sidjaja — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:45:12 +0000

Actually I’m just thinking to add this feature on my blog. But looking at your thoughts, I think I will consider it again. I also never use the tag button given, they are more like source of annoyances.

Maybe they are useful, IF not too much.

By: Indian web company

Indian web company — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:44:27 +0000

Nice pots, Can anyone post large image sizes button codes?

By: What is Google?

What is Google? — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:29:22 +0000

Don’t forget that the social bookmark links also break HTML validity most of the time, require javascript, and leak pagerank. I truly doubt that they are worth all that trouble.

By: One New Idea » Thou Shalt Not Digg Thyself - but who cares?

One New Idea » Thou Shalt Not Digg Thyself - but who cares? — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:56:50 +0000

[...] Anyway, they’re late to the enlightenment. People like Chris Pirillo and 37 Signals realized Digg buttons jumped the shark long ago. [...]

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How Many Social Media Icons Is Too Many - Business Online Blog — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:05:19 +0000

[...] Of the articles I came across that were against the use of social media bookmarklets the earliest complaints were from Chris Pirillo’s post Social Bookmarking Button Madness. [...]

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How Many Social Media Icons Is Too Many? - TheVanBlog — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:51:51 +0000

[...] Of the articles I came across that were against the use of social media bookmarklets the earliest complaints were from Chris Pirillo’s post Social Bookmarking Button Madness. These buttons are annoying more than anything else, serving to show the world just how unpopular your content really is – and I believe that there’s no direct correlation between the number of social bookmarking buttons you place on your page(s) has any direct impact on the number of times those page(s) have been stored in the respective services. [...]