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    Posted on January 30th, 2008 FreeReason 16 comments


    As a blogger, i need to boost my website traffic and increase my readership. I did so many things as of to date just to increase my blog traffic. As you all know, i did reveal the 5 easy step on how to drive traffic to your blog. Other than that i also mentioned about how viral links grow my blog readership .

    If you noticed, i installed Addthis Social bookmarking since the first day i started blogging. I know addthis.com is one of the best social bookmarking available for the bloggers to promote their blog. However i noticed some of the Social bookmarking on addthis.com are not working very well and some produced error. Thus resulting me, changing my Addthis.com to sharethis.com.

    I believe this is a very subjective matters, some people will still love Addthis.com. But in my case i no longer need addthis.com huge socialbookmarking list. I’ved done some testing and analysis of how many of my readers really use all of the list provided by addthis.com, the result, they only used Stumbleupon.com and digg.com. I think it is at best for me to remove and get sharethis.com social bookmarking. The main reason why i am using sharethis.com is:

    1) Simple and more user friendly.

    2) I love the ability to tell your myspace.com contact

    3) Ability to tell all you facebook.com contact directly

    4) Listed only the best Social Bookmarking website

    My advice, if you havent tried sharthis.com this is the time! Time to change, sharethis.com  always the smarter choice :) .

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    15 responses to “Addthis Vs. Sharethis” RSS icon

    • Yep, agree with you bro…ShareThis widget is simple and easy to implement…

    • I see no difference between the two. Hehe.

    • I too had seen AddThis, but ShareThis - now that it’s finally available to all, not just WordPress - is way better IMO. I’d like to see some kind of deeper comparison, or hear someone actually tell me the reasons why they think AddThis is better… but for now I agree in thinking ShareThis is the better choice between the two.

      Thanks for this post, yours came up top when I googled addthis vs sharethis. :)

      p.s. I’m using ShareThis on my blog - http://willotoons.com - and on my shop: http://shop.willotoons.com/products/geekyfantastic-guys

    • Thanks for this article - helps clarify the differences between addthis and sharethis. I was hoping to talk to you more about this post but couldn’t find your contact information. I’m developing a similar widget with some additional bells & whistles and thought you could provide some feedback. Send me an email when you get the chance.

      Thanks!

    • Aj: Hi thanks for dropping by to my blog. basically you can contact me thru my email address at benreason at gmail if you got this..do let me know ya.. thanks.. really keen to see what you are going to develop thanks.

    • Willo: Thanks for dropping by ya! i never knew i came first for the search terms of addthis vs sharethis :) nice blog u got there.

    • Yeah, i agree with you and ShareThis have $21M fund from VC, that is much money…

    • Neezar: Ya 21M VC Fund is Much money

    • Thanks for the comparison of ShareThis vs AddThis.

    • Jonas Lindqvist October 21st, 2008 at 21:23

      Hi!

      Funny that you say that Stumbleupon.com and digg.com are performing best for you. When I started with Addthis a few month ago I thought those would be the biggest also for me as everyone seems to have them as default, but… biggest for me are Google, Myspace, Facebook etc. Digg is on sixth place and Stumbleupon is very small on eleventh place. I had 500 bookmarks for September so it is a fairly good statistical base. Maybe different sites having different audiences will have different stats…but for me Sumbleupon and Digg is definitely not the best performing.

    • I think it in other way. I also know that if my site is bookmarked in at least 20 websites, then also it’s great for me. So the huge list of anyone matters less. But what matters to me is that which one is more usable and more noticeable. If users are not able to notice the bookmark button, then I have no benefit of using anything there. In this case i see that the AddThis widget is more noticeable and useful than that small green button of ShareThis. Secondly the Addthis widget works on mouse-over which is more attractive. The ShareThis widget again needs to be closed by clicking the close button.
      That’s why I personally prefer Addthis.

    • Hi, my name is Justin Thorp and I’m the community manager at AddThis.  I really appreciate your feedback about our service.  Your thoughts are helpful.  I’m curious though.  Can you tell me what kind of errors you were encountering when submitting to different social bookmarks?  E-mail me - justin@addthis.com

    • Yeah I am using http://www.crowdsend.com on my site! Much better!

    • You mention that you use Sharethis however for this blog post I am seeing Addthis. Why did you switch back?

    • You claim sharethis is better. But you still use addthis. strange.


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