AddThis Help
What is AddThis?
Launched in September 2006, AddThis is the
#1 bookmarking and sharing button on the Internet.
AddThis
has become the
standard button for bookmarking and sharing.
The AddThis button spreads your content across the Web by making
it easier for your visitors to bookmark and share it with other
people, again…and again…and again. This simple yet
powerful button is very
easy to
install and provides valuable Analytics about the bookmarking
and sharing activity of your users. AddThis helps your visitors
create a buzz for your site and increase its popularity and ranking.
Who uses Add This?
AddThis is already on hundreds of thousands of websites including
TIME Magazine, Oracle, TechCrunch, Freewebs, Entertainment
Weekly, Topix, Lonely Planet, MySpace, PGA Tour, Tower Records,
Squidoo, Zappos, FOX, ABC, CBS, Glamour, PostSecret, WebMD, American
Idol, ReadWriteWeb, just to name a few (
more
here). Our button is displayed across the web over 20 billion
times per month (or 7,500 times / sec).
Why is everyone using AddThis?
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Easy Bookmarking and Sharing -
Makes it easy for your visitors to bookmark and share your
content with others
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Promotes Your Website/Blog - Helps send your content to social bookmarking services and
social networks, which brings back more traffic to you.
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Increases Your Rankings -
Increases your link popularity, which is a very important
factor in increasing search engine rankings.
- Most Popular - It's the #1 button, recognized
by everyone. Your visitors will already know what the button
does and how to use it.
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Removes Clutter -
Eliminates the need to include a different button
for each
bookmarking service.
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Easy to Install -
Our button can easily be installed on almost anywhere with
a few clicks.
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Free Analytics - Provides
valuable statistics about how readers are bookmarking
and sharing your content.
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Very Reliable - No matter
how much traffic your site generates, our fast
servers can handle
it, and reliably deliver the widget at all times.
Is AddThis Free?
Yep! The features you see today on AddThis will always be free.
We will soon provide additional premium services
for those who need more from AddThis.
What blogging platforms do you support?
We currently support TypePad, Blogger, and Wordpress. More platforms will be
supported in the future.
Will my users need to create an account?
No. Once you add our button to your site or blog, your users can immediatly start
using it to bookmark and share your content. They do not need to create an account
with AddThis to do that.
Can I customize the button,
dropdown, or popup?
Absolutely. We understand that our button does not necessarily
fit the look and feel of all websites. So you are welcome to
provide your own image, or assign styles to your link. Additionally
you can customize the dropdown and popup by adding your company
name and logo. You can even change the list (and order) of
service options (e.g. Digg, Del.icio.us, Facebook,
etc). Please refer to the
customization
documentation for more
information. By the way, 'Email a Friend' is also an option if
you want to provide it to your users.
Where should I place the button on my web pages...any
advice?
This is really up to you. But it's better to
place the button in a visible spot (e.g. the top portion of the page). The more
visible the button is the more people will bookmark and share your content;
which of course means more buzz, and more traffic back to your site.
Do you have a secure version of the widget (https)?
Yes. In the code of the widget, just replace this http://s7.addthis.com
or http://s5.addthis.com.... with this:
https://secure.addthis.com/.
Why do my bookmarks open in
the sidebar, with Firefox?
If you use Firefox and bookmark a page with the AddThis button ('Favorites' option),
when you later open that bookmark, the page opens in the sidebar instead of
the main window. This is a well-known Firefox bug. We have no control over it,
unfortunately.
Why does the button dropdown sometimes appears under Flash objects?
Flash objects often conflict with other HTML elements, this is a common problem.
To avoid these conflicts be sure to set the "vmode" attribute to "transparent"
in all your <embed /> tags. For example: <embed vmode="transparent" ...
/>. Also,
the latest version of the button temporarily hides Flash objects that intersect
with the dropdown, when opened. If you want to disable this behavior, just set
the addthis_embed_hide property to fase, like this: addthis_embed_hide=false;
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AddThis
TM and Add This
TM are trademarks
of Add This, LLC.
The technology supporting AddThis is patent-pending.
