Paul McEwan

A street level view with curb appeal

Sexy Bookmarks

How many came here thinking the title was going to lead you to a bunch of websites involving sex? (Like you really needed me to show you the way). Well keep reading anyway because it’s fun.

We’re all familiar with blog posts and one of the familiar parts is seeing a number of  links at the bottom of every post wanting you to “share-this-article”. They are called Social Bookmarks. People who are active in the blogosphere push those buttons because it nice. It’s a new social etiquette like letting others on the elevator first or holding a door for someone, clicking those links helps the blog owner increase search ratings. Bloggers and commenter’s are usually one and the same and we have our blogs we like to visit. They become friends.

This blog has never been about search rating but it is fun to watch traffic after blogging some opinionated article and experiment with different forms of SEO. I never added any social bookmarking links because they are ugly. (but who cares about my opinion). A few clicks for the sake of ruining the look of my page wasn’t worth it.

Enter the Sexy Bookmarks Wordpress Plugin found during a search for client work over at TribalYell. As soon as I found it I knew it was a winner and it would soon be on my blog too. Easy to install like any plugin in the latest versions of Wordpress. Click “add new” in your plugins menu, search for “SexyBookmarks” and click install. Go to the admin section for Sexybookmarks and choose which bookmarks to display. Enjoy.

So now you see them, Feel free to click on them. The makers of the Sexylinks plugin will thank you.

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3 Comments

  1. thanks for this tidbit! I’m totally checking it out.

  2. Nice Job….I love the way they look on my blog…..(Ok, so here is a shameless attempt at back-linking, I admit it….)

  3. Bo. I just saw this comment while checking email on my phone. I logged in and approved it from the phone. Now I am leaving a comment from my phone. I love the future.

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