Ultimate How-To: Social Media Buttons, Tools and Badges Resource
Feb 17, 2009 by Patrick Winfield | Social Media Marketing
Great content needs to be seen and, ideally, voted on then shared. After spending the time creating the content, spend a bit more gearing up the page so that it can so it will receive optimal social media votes. We have created a one stop shop for all your social media site buttons and badge needs.
Site Specific Buttons
If your website is tailor-made for a specific social news site, try one of these buttons/badges. These buttons allow visitors to vote quickly and easily if they deem the content worthy.
Reddit Buttons
The Reddit button allows for visitors to vote directly for your site (and see the current # of votes) on Reddit.
Reddit WordPress Plugin
Adds a Reddit badge to every post on WordPress blogs.
Get the official Digg badge that allows visitors to see a story’s current # of Digg while making it quick and easy to vote.
This online generator kicks out code  for custom Digg buttons.
‘DiggThis’ WordPress Plugin
This plugin displays a digg badge on your WordPress blog only if the story has been dugg!
With this JSON powered Tagometer Badge, you can easily show both tags and number of saves.
Allow others to follow you on Twitter with this button.
These are a few slick looking Twitter icons to help turn traffic into followers.
Bring Twitter conversation to your blog. This WordPress plugin brings tweets to your post right into your comments!
Adding this ‘Stumble It!’ button to your site makes submitting your content to StumbleUpon easier for vsitors.
An easy icon that allows visitors to vote on any Yahoo! Buzz-worthy content.
The Sphinn badge will shoot visitors over to the Internet marketing social news site.
This Sphinn button visitors quickly submit your post to Sphinn.
Wordpress PlugIn: SphinnIt Button
It adds a “Sphinn It” button to your posts on WordPress blogs and the position of the button is also fully customizable.
This code allows visitors to Mixx your content right from the page.
This widget allows visitors to cast votes, buy clicking straight from the page.
These Tip’d buttons make it easy for readers to submit or Tip your financial stories on Tip’d.
These badges allow for easy voting on Shoutwire for any of your current stories/posts.
The “Seed Newsvine” link on the article pages of your news site or blog will allow your users to easily spread links to your site throughout the Newsvine community.
Combination Badges
These badges incorporate a variety of social media news networks so users are able to vote for on a variety of social sites. If your site does not generate traffic that is specific to a social media news niche, then one of these might be the best option for you.
This plugin lets you pick and choose which social badges to display on your WordPress blog. Simply check the social si(s) of your choice and you are ready to go!
ShareThis  not only features all of the major social media news sites, but also Facebook, MySpace, AIM, as well as Email and through text messaging to mobile devices.
This badge, allows voting on the major social sites and gives you the ability to customize the menu colors to match your site.
Makes it easy for your visitors to bookmark and share your content with others on all of the major social sites This badge is very minimalistic and offers a very clean and simple design.
RSS Icons
These icons are essential to turn social media traffic into repeat visitors. RSS icons should be placed prominently on your site so users can easily subscribe to your content. Many times site specific RSS icons can help you gain additional followers.
An optimal position for RSS-icons is the area that surrounds your logo and the top area of your site. The lower an RSS-icon is placed, the less subscribers you’ll be able to get. Also of interest, should RSS buttons be modified? And if so what works and what hurts?
It’s reasonable to make sure that visitors can identify and recognize RSS quickly and easily, this is why the standard RSS-icon is used in most cases.
Easily create RSS buttons for your site with this tool from TopRankBlog.
The .zip file contains around 15 ‘alternative’ RSS icons in JPEG and high-res PNG formats.
Also of interest, should RSS buttons be modified? And if so what works and what hurts? SEOmoz takes us on a little lesson on why readers often prefer the original orange logo button.
Embeddable Widgets
Just cut and paste the generated code into your site and your specified reddit.com feed will be displayed and updated as new stories bubble up.
You can easily display Digg news on your site, now with many different flavors to choose from:
- Top News (can be sorted by topic)
- Digg Stats (dugg/submitted) by user
- Digg stories (popular/upcoming) from a site
Display your tagged items on your blog with this widget.
Bring your conversations to your site. This allows you to bring your Twitter stream to your site/blog.
This widget creator lets you add Mixx content to your site. Simply select your theme, add content, and set a few options and you’re on your way!
Easily organize all your feeds into one widget that can be placed on your site.
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You should add one of the above buttons to this blog. I was wanting to submit it to Sphinn, and alas no (submit to social media sites) button found. Kind of ironic. LoL.
Good comprehensive list, Patrick.
Ha – good point Missy. We have had different combinations of buttons throughout the years but have settled on the Digg, Reddit & Delicious buttons (icons) at the bottom of each post
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Great post, I have to thank Mashable for shooting this link around on twitter. Getting ready to edit now, thank you.
Excellent list!
I've been putting sharethis on blogs for the reporting and customization. My intention is to use the reports to eventually narrow it down to the a few most successful (more optimized) buttons.
I'm going to bookmark this list! Thanks!
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Nice list of buttons..great resource…I will bookmark and share.
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Great resources in this post. I think I will settle with combination badges, as many social media sites as possible but the challenge is still how to get your neutral visitors to submit your content in the first place.
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Wow! I'm sure a lot of time and work went into this blog post! thanks so much!
will be useful in getting anymore buttons i need on my blog!
Patrick, this is probably the most comprehensive resource I've seen on this, AWESOME Job.
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Thanks Todd! Glad that you liked it enough to boomark.
Thanks Nishan! Great to hear that it will be useful to you.
Adam, thank you! Thanks for sharing.
I agree, however so many badges can be a bit overbearing on visitors sometimes. Thanks for reading!
Thanks David! Glad to hear you liked the post and will be getting some use out of it.
Tony, thank you kindly!
Thanks VirtualOffice! Glad you read it and got some use out of it
Wow, thanks! Great resource; I've had to search around for the right buttons on many occasions.
Great post and a great compilation. Looking forward to more such posts. Thanks.
Thanks snocon, now you have a spot to choose the best ones for you!
Thank you Wendy. I am glad to hear you enjoyed the post and are looking forward to reading more
All the best.
Wow, this is awesome — thanks for putting it together. Great post, adding your RSS feed, and a delicious bookmark…
Thanks for reading ptamaro! Glad you can find some use out of it.
thanks a lot for these buttons i've been looking forward to it… and add em to my blog…. thanks a lot again
Thanks shane! Great to hear you have been looking for this information
FANTASTIC information with many options.
My plan is to share this web page with my online family throughout my online communities with my friends.
Thanks for the great work.
I will add your site as a resource on my web sites too.
Abundantly,
Monique Cloutier
http://ConnectedFM.com
Thank you Monique, so glad to hear you liked reading the post. Thank you also for spreading the word!
Very useful post. It seems I still have a lot to learn. Thanks.
Thanks for reading Steve!
For now I will settle for Twitter and Digg buttons. Patrick, I just want to let you know that as a late bloomer, I registered at Twitter yesterday and I started "following" you to keep up with your news stories. Others will follow afterwards.
Thanks very much Mexabet! Glad that you enjoyed the article
Great post and a great compilation. Looking forward to more such posts. Thanks.
Thank you for reading and commenting Dawid!
Thanks for sharing, Patrick.
Even the most advanced social networkers could find something new here.
BTW because of these plugins my Firefox looks like a Christmas tree
Haha- thanks for commenting Vicky!
That's quite a comprehensive Patrick, exactly what I was looking for. I think I'm going to use these instead of ShareThis.
Great, glad you found it and are able to take something away from it Lenen!
Sure the list quality shows that you spent a lot of time in aggregating the resources.
Well done, and keep building more of such great lists.
Hi patrick,
I think allSocial media should use all these so that people or user won't feel bad about why some sites have these and some don't have
Great stuff! I am using some of these things already.
Good resources for bookmarking tools , thanks !
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Thanks for posting these. We're a web development company and are using most of these widgets on client sites.
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nice site buttons, they will be useful in getting some buttons on my blog
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pretty good post.. nice resources. thanks.
I used Twitter icons for my site. They're helpful for me.
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thanks bro….this is what i am looking 4
Reddit is a great site to be part of, the plugin is a must have.
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this is awesome, but didn't you forget delicious? Or isn't delicious social media any more?
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I really like this post. Thanks for this article, Anyone got any more info about it? I am now your blog' s rss follower. you are now in my bookmarks.
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Another all-in-one button is sociofluid. There's a Wordpress plugin for it, too.
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This is the best complete list I have seen for making buttons, thanks!
Great Post! I like these buttons, it looks very interested! But what a pity! It's so little!
I like using social media buttons on my site, but there are some that make site to load very slowly. Twitter button is in vogue and that's the only one I use these days. I want to add other buttons but do not want everything to be cluttered all over. That's why I'm considering AddThis button.
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Great Post! Great overview.
Thx.
Great collection. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for sharing my MilkAddict button!