I've just finished adding a sharing widget to allow confoozled.com readers to share posts they like on various link sharing and social networking sites, as well as e-mail them to a friend. Holy crap, was that ever the most time consuming piece of HTML code I have ever written. I tried a couple of Movable Type plugins, but I wasn't happy with any of them. I wanted it to be stupid easy, and require as little hoop jumping from the user as possible. I'm hoping I achieved that. I'm open to suggestions.
The reason I put myself through this hell? Because the first step in making money from this blog is getting more readers. The more my existing readers help to promote my articles, and the more places in which they do so, the more potential there is for more people to discover my blog and keep coming back. And the more traffic I get, the more likely I am to sell higher paying ads on the site.
So please try out the sharing tools. It's hidden, like the comment form; below the post where it says, "If you like this post, please share it!" is the magical link to reveal it. For now I've only included a few sites that I am familiar with. If there's one you think should be there and isn't, use the request form to let me know.
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