Adding a del.icio.us link to your Blog

Posted by Miles Evans

I recently mentioned how I add a digg link to a blog post for easier submissions and figured I may as well add a quick blurb on adding a link for del.icio.us as well. For those not keen on this gnarly Web 2.0 style stuff, del.icio.us is a very large and popular social bookmarking system recently bought by Yahoo.

Although a large majority of my own traffic comes from digg, del.icio.is brings a steady targeted stream of eager readers. Mmm'kay.

This example is for Movable Type users but it can be adapted to any blog or your own tool quite easily. The code I use to generate an accessibility safe del.icio.us link.:

<a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=<$MTEntryPermalink$> &title=<$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$>" title="Submit <$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$> to Del.icio.us" target="_blank">Del.icio.us</a>

Accessibility safe you say? Notice the title tag: title="Submit <$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$> to Del.icio.us". Some people with disabilities will not be able to surf your site without this and it let's them know exactly where this link goes. Does Google weight this type of thing? You betcha Johnny. You will notice the majority of my links are accessible this way. More on that later.

Posted Apr 07, 2006 at 04:14 PM | Permalink | Trackback URL | Del.icio.us | DIGG!