How To Add Delicious To Your Blog

Delicious is one of the most underrated social bookmarking services around. There are plenty of social bookmarking services that can drive traffic to your blog, but if I were to rate Delicious among these services, it’d be in the top 2. If you can get people to submit your posts to delicious and help spread the word around about your blog, there is no reason you can’t gain lots of traffic for your efforts. Of course, you need to be involved on Delicious, and your content needs to be top notch. Last but no the least, you need to tag your content properly.

You can always work hours on producing your killer content, and your readers may or may not take the time to add your content to delicious. But you can always push the issue by adding a delicious button to your blog posts to make the process easier for your visitors. I have talked about a few solutions that allow you to display Facebook, Twitter, and Delicious buttons in your posts, but you don’t really have to use a third party solution to get the job done. Delicious has already provided us with a set of free tools that your visitors can use to bookmark your blog posts fast.

One of the easiest way to add delicious to your blog is by grabbing the button code from Delicious. It’s a very simple text button that once clicked it will open up a window that lets your visitors bookmark your posts.

Delicious Tagometer Badge is much more sophisticated and lets you display the tags your visitors have used to bookmark your blog posts as well as bookmarking trends for your posts. This badge also shows how many people have bookmarked your posts, which could be useful to your new visitors.

Remember that in order to get the best out of Delicious, you should take time to get involved. You can always use your blog to promote your Delicious account and connect with other Delicious users. Here are just a few other tools you can use to add your Delicious profile to your blog.

A lot of bloggers underestimate the power of Delicious. But the above tools are all free and worth testing on your blog. You can customize their look and feel as well. If you haven’t given Delicious a chance in the past, it’s great way to start bringing more traffic to your blog in 2010.