Feacbook, Digg, Delicious IconsGathering new people into your social network through your website is a great way to have that strong viral growth for your website that many desire and few achieve.  In an earlier post, we mentioned how you can incorporate Facebook into your website, and now we want to share how you can also incorporate Deli.cio.us.
 

Del.icio.us in a nutshell 

Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that allows you to easily access your bookmarks from any computer.  It is much different than Facebook as the core concept is networking for the purposes of bookmarking only.  You can even subscribe to an RSS feed to get the latest top book marks. 

Integrating into your website 

Del.icio.us doesn’t offer the same tools available to put it in your website, but luckily the web is a sharing place and there are some great developers who share their code.  Here is how you can quickly put Del.icio.us into your website. Delicious Icon for Social Bookmarking

  1. Get the Del.icio.us Icon.-
    1. http://www.feedforall.com/social-bookmarking-icons.htm
  2. Get the code so you can paste into your website.  Use the JavaScript code as it easily incorporates into your website.
    1. http://ekstreme.com/seo/socialbookmarkingcode.php
    2. Code looks like the following:
    3. <a href=”javascript:location.href=’http://del.icio.us/post?v=2&url=’+encodeURIComponent(document.location.href)+’&title=’+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+’ ‘”>Post to del.icio.us</a>
  3. We want to replace the “post to del.icio.us” with our image that we downloaded. Simply replace the text with HTML to put the image in place. It would look like the following.
    1. <img src=”images/delicious.png”>
      1. “images” would be the directory where you uploaded the del.icio.us image.
  4. Now that your code is all nice and neat, just paste it into a page on your website that gets displayed on every page. This may be your footer, or like on our Long Beach condo website, it is displayed on the right hand side of the page.

That’s it!  Now people can easily share your pages with their friends in their social network.  Many people look for advice and opinions from their network and using methods on your website to allow them to share encourages greater interaction on your website.

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