Exciting way to make your blog socially interactive: AddThis Widgets

For a blog to be successful it’s social widgets are important because widgets gives the ease of sharing and ease of connectivity to the pages dedicated to that blog. There are many benefits of it, as these widgets will let the user easily share your post and this will increase your traffic surely because the basic idea of sharing is spreading once thought to the others and let them decide that this topic is of their interest or not, next if people like your post at any social network then it gives some advantage to your blog ranking too, that is why famous bloggers encourage social sharing and social connectivity through these widgets.

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                                                    Yes by default blogger and other blogging websites provide sharing buttons, but in this era of internet modernization, you can attract the reader or user of your website only through fancy, advanced and more beautiful looking widgets. After watching these widgets the user will not be able to stop him from sharing or visiting your page. There are many readymade widgets on the internet, what you have to do is just copy and paste some code and save your html coding and you are done with it. But few names are famous for their advanced look and style, like this a widget producing famous developers is addthis. You know I have tried many widgets but unlike addthis they fail sometimes as you have placed the code but at one time they are showing the widget on your blog and the sometimes they don’t.

      

            Few widgets provided by addthis

There are two types of widgets on this site, free and pro (you have to pay for it), in free widgets you will get some limited features, but in pro you can customize the widget in your own way. Here are some features of these widgets-

Normal sharing buttons: normal sharing buttons can be placed at any part of the page they will provide you a div tag that you will have to copy and paste at any part of your blog to share the post or the blog.

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Floating sharing buttons: all the features of these buttons are the same but in these types of buttons they will provide you a script tag to copy and paste at any part of your blog it doesn’t matter where you placed it, because it will be show up at a fixed position wherever you will set it at your addthis account whether it’s right or left.

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Mobile sharing buttons: these types of buttons are the buttons which are exclusively made for mobile users, i.e. when anybody will open your blog at his/her mobile device, he will have some options to share.

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Normal follow buttons: suppose if you have created follow pages with the name of your blog at google+, twitter and facebook and you want to show it to the world, but those people who are coming to your blog through the Google search engine or other search engine or by directly putting your url at the browser how will they know about your pages? These types of widgets are the answer to this problem.

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Floating follow buttons: this is a beautiful tray of follow buttons which will shown up at any position that you will decide and all the features of it are the same as normal follow buttons.

Normal related post thumbnails: the best way to keep involve your user on your blog is show some related post from your blog to the reader or user so that he will continue reading your blog, because the time a reader spends on your blog is very important  in deciding your page rank.

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                                                        Additionally, the main advantage of using addthis is you just have to put the code once and if you want some changes in settings or look and feel of the widgets than you will not have to touch the code at your blog you just have to visit your addthis account to adjust it again. There are sharing buttons from almost all the famous social websites from the internet, you can select your preferred sharing and follow buttons.