How to use Addtoany to easily offer readers social bookmarking and RSS subscription options for your wordpress.com blog (posts)

DOES a single service designated to handle both social bookmarking and RSS subscription options sound useful?

Addtoany is an easy way to offer social bookamrking options and RSS subscription options. None of the methods quite work for wordpress.com blogs .

However, here is an easy way to make it work.

To use Addtoany as a social bookmarking service for individual blog posts

Go to the Addtoany homepage and enter the blog post url. Now choose webpage, as opposed to feed. and click OK. The buttons of representative social bookmarking icons are now configured to bookmark your blog post!

Copy the url from the address bar. Save it in a Notepad file.

Go back to the Addtoany homepage and copy the Bookmark button. Although you see the drop-sown menu when you hover the mouseover the button, the menu will not work in wordpress. Paste the button under your blog post and link it to the copied url.

And you are done! If you click the button you will be able to bookmark this post!

How to use Addtoany to offer reader RSS subscription options for your blog

Go to the Addtoany homepage and enter your blog’s feed url. Now choose Feed, as opposed to webpage and click OK.

All the buttons of representative RSS services are now configured to allow your readers to subscribe to the feed of your blog! Not only that, they also have the option to receive the feed of your blog in their email!

Copy the url from the address bar. Saveit in a Notepad file.

Now go back to the Addtoany homepage and copy the button. Paste the button in your sidebar and link it to the url.

And rejoice! No, wait, click on my Addtoany RSS button to see that it works!

Although I should have it in my side bar, I put it here on test basis, as I prefer my feedburner button in the side bar instead. Which reminds me, it is possible to use Addtoany in conjunction with Feedburner. All you need to do is paste the feedburner feed url of your blog in Addtoany and you are done!

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