How To Add a Posterous Share Button To Your Blog

Adding share buttons to your website is the best way to increase your incoming traffic and leveraging your readership to spread your content around. All top bloggers have Facebook, Twitter, and StumbleUpon buttons on their websites. But one shouldn’t stop with those. There are plenty of other communities that one can be a part of and encourage others to participate in as well. Posterous is one of those websites. It’s a fast rising community that can get your content some decent action if your visitors decide to submit your posts to it.

Unlike Facebook and Twitter, Posterous does not really give you too many options as far as those share buttons are concerned. I still have not been able to find a decent plugin that targets Posterous users. You do not really need a plugin to install a Posterous button on your website though. All you need is a button (which you can grab from Posterous.com or right at the top of this post) and this piece of code:

Of course, that is only a static button. If you use WordPress or other dynamic content management systems, you don’t want to add this button to every one of your posts by hand. Here is the code that I use on one my blogs. All you have to do is change the “your image link” section in the code below to your button’s URL.

Posterous may not drive a ton of traffic to your website, but it’s certainly something worth paying attention to. If you manage to get some love from top Posterous users, you could end up with a larger community. No harm in testing this service.