Let People Easily Bookmark Your Blog

What we all forget as bloggers is to just make it as easy as possible to bookmark (favorite) your blog. What do I mean by that? I’m not talking about bookmarking your blog on all those new web sites. What I’m talking about is bookmarking it the old-fashioned way.

Why do I think that’s a good idea? Because not all people use the newer web sites that you can bookmark a blog or blog posts. Not everyone understands how to use a RSS feed. So why not give the other people that do not know how to use these web sites the option of bookmarking your blog or a post the old-fashioned way.

This just gives you another avenue for people to save your blog. I know that I use all the new web sites for social media but for some reason I still continue to bookmark some of my favorite web sites. I just find it easier to bookmark web sites and then quickly go click on them in my bookmarks. I know there are a lot of my friends that still continue to do the same thing you do because they do not even know a lot about social media.

I mean they use web sites like Myspace and Facebook but they never save a web site on there. And what can it hurt to give someone another way of saving your blog. And not a lot of people go through their bookmarks on their browser and delete any. They usually continue to just pile up the web sites so if they forget about your blog they are likely to someday come back when they see your blog in their bookmarks. “They will never be able to completely forget you.”

Below is the code that you can copy and paste somewhere on your blog so by clicking the Add to Bookmark, the dialog window will pop up so they can bookmark it to the browser they are currently using. This should work for the browsers Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera.

<script language="JavaScript1.2" type="text/javascript">
 function CreateBookmarkLink() {

 title = "Webpage Title";
  // Blogger - Replace with <$BlogItemTitle$>
  // MovableType - Replace with <$MTEntryTitle$>

 url = "Webpage URL";
  // Blogger - Replace with <$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>
  // MovableType - Replace with <$MTEntryPermalink$>
  // WordPress - <?php bloginfo('url'); ?>

	if (window.sidebar) { // Mozilla Firefox Bookmark
		window.sidebar.addPanel(title, url,"");
	} else if( window.external ) { // IE Favorite
		window.external.AddFavorite( url, title); }
	else if(window.opera && window.print) { // Opera Hotlist
		return true; }
 }

 if (window.external) {
  document.write('<a href =
     "javascript:CreateBookmarkLink()");">Add to Favorites</a>');
  } else  if (window.sidebar) {
  document.write('<a href =
    "javascript:CreateBookmarkLink()");">Bookmark Page</a>');
 } else if (window.opera && window.print) {
   document.write('<a href =
     "javascript:CreateBookmarkLink()");">Add Bookmark</a>');
 }
</script>