How to add social media sharing buttons in blog to grow visitors?

We have posted a tutorial on how to add Social Media share buttons powered by Addthis manually in your blog via secondary gadget. That was quite a basic and doesn't guarantee availability of room for changes in future. Moreover, adding third party gadget in your blog reduces loading speed.

Therefore, today I would like to extend that tutorial to little advance level, but to better level, and take you through in adding Social Media sharing buttons of Addthis by getting inside Addthis dashboard. We have done same in Getsitecontrol. This means by creating an account with Addthis, subscribing to all its tools and keeping them enabled and active.

Let us get started. Please follow the given steps:

Step-1

Open Addthis.

            

Step-2

Create your Account.

      

Step-3

Click on 'Get Share Buttons'

           

Step-4

Choose a side. Left or Right

            

Step-5

Choose theme. Consider the background of your blog.

               

Step-6

Give title of the gadget

              

Step-7

Select the number of buttons you want.

           

Step-8 

You can click on 'Show More Options'

          

Step-9

Make customization as you wants

            

Step-10 

Click on Activate. You're done! 

                 

Addthis not only provides social media sharing buttons for bloggers. It also provides email list building facilities, content recommendation gadget, social media follow buttons, analytical tools and also conversion tools. And all those tools are for free. Wonderful, right?

Which blog monetization program is best for Bhutanese Bloggers?

Bloggers can get registered with online content monetization programs. There are literally more than hundreds that provide this service for bloggers, affiliate marketers, website owners and also content developers. 

 

But number should remain as number. We shouldn’t get excited looking at the numbers of content monetization program providers. All have their own shares of advantages and limitations. We, as bloggers whose long-run goal is to make money out of our blogs should exercise well in studying their advantages and limitations. 

Time is precious. We cannot afford to waste our time spending on less helpful blog monetization programs. 

I have also studied some of such programs. I have registered in which I think would worth my time and effort. In some, though I really wish to get registered and start monetizing my blog, I couldn’t do so due to their own policies or non-availability of their services in this geographical area. I will introduce all.

Google Adsense
This is one of the best content monetization programs any experienced online marketing expert would recommend for you. 

It’s said that one can earn whenever visitors genuinely click on those ads being displayed in your website/blog footer, header, and sidebars. 

Bloggers can submit the application for it. The Adsense team will review the blog you’ve submitted and respond accordingly. The response from their side will be either approval or disapproval. Former happens for new bloggers usually.

I love Google Adsense looking at the quality of their ads formats, availability of various helps for it, mode of payment and its popularity. 

But it has a lot of restrictions and complicated policies. Your application won’t get approved in first few attempts. Since my application is also not yet in approved status, I cannot comment much about Google Adsense’s earning levels. 

Will I recommend this to Bhutanese Bloggers?
Yes. It’s quite obvious that you will get disapproved for first few instances. First develop a good contents and traffics. It’s not recommended for bloggers having less number of articles or low traffics. It’s not for few days old bloggers.

InFolinks
This is the best Google Adsense alternative program for blog monetization. Registration procedures are simple and rules are easy. There are also not many approval scrutiny processes like in Google Adsense. This is best recommended for new bloggers who are having few numbers of posts and traffics level is quite lower.    

 

Photo: Screenshot of my Infolink account

I have signed up with it few weeks before and it’s running successfully in my blog. I am earning at least $0.8 per day. And its payment threshold is $100. This means Infolinks will send your earnings when your accumulated earnings reach $100. This is quite lower when compared with other programs, which indeed is good for us. .
 
Viglink
Viglink is another blog monetization program that is as easy as Infolinks in installation and integration with your blog. The good part of Viglink is that it doesn’t have strict approval policies like in Google Adsense or other affiliate programs. 

 

Photo: Screenshot of my Viglink account

Once you sign up with it and add its code in your template, things thereafter are being carried out by Viglink. Even high paid keyword linking is also done by itself. Literally you don’t have to do anything.

I have also signed up with it few weeks back. As of now, my blog couldn’t generate even a single cent out of this. May be things would change. 

  
Chitika
Chitika is also one of my recommendations to monetize your blog. It also doesn’t have many approval procedures.

The integration and approval are very quick. But, I personally didn’t like it due to that fact of its account needing to get verified with paypal account. Since I don’t paypal account, I didn’t add this in my blog. Bloggers having paypal account can try it. It appears more tempting compare to infolinks and bidvertiser.

Bidvertiser
I personally love Bidvertiser and Infolinks more than other blog monetization programs I know of. The revenues/earnings my blog could receive in my respective account are higher in these two affiliate programs.

 

Photo: Screenshot of my Bidvertiser account

These two also has less approval procedures and integration is very easy. I think even primary school kid can do that. Guides are given in their respective websites.Read Here: How to register your blog with Bidvertiser to make money online.Click here to start earning from Bidvertiser: Monetize your Website or Blog with BidVertiser

5 star free rating widget for Blogger+Installation procedures

There are plugins to rate books, movies or any other products in self hosted WordPress blogs. You just have to install the plugin. But this isn't there for blogger. However don't freak out, we can add it as a third party gadget.
 

In blogger, we can install 5 star rating gadget/widget to rate blog post individually. 5 star rating gadget is some sort of readers' feedback gathering mechanism. When a reader sees the rating option just below your post, they just have to click any star to rate the post. Returning readers will be tempted to check out your blog post that has got maximum ratings.
       
Read: How to register your blog with Bidvertiser to make money online?

        

This means you also want this rating gadget installed in your blog. If that is the case, please follow my steps in getting it installed in your blogspot blog:

Step-1

Login to your blogger account
              

Step-2

Choose the blog (if you've more)

              

Step-3

Click on Layout

             

Step-4

Click on Add Gadget
               

Step-5

Select HTML/JavaScript

               

Step-6

Keep the title blank
            

Step-7

In content, add the given HTML:

<script type="text/javascript">(function(d, t, e, m){
window._rws = window._rws || [{
huid: "313365",
 uid: "ab0d94c20f7af1fb72707290db5186ab",
source: "blogger",
options: {
"size": "medium",
"type": "nero",
"style": "thumbs",
"isDummy": false
}
}];
// Append Rating-Widget JavaScript library.
var rw, s = d.getElementsByTagName(e)[0], id = "rw-blogger-js",
p = d.location.protocol, a = ("https:" == p ? "secure." +
m + "js/platform/" : "js." + m + "platform/"),
ck = "Y" + t.getFullYear() + "M" + t.getMonth() + "D" + t.getDate();
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;           
rw = d.createElement(e);
rw.id = id; rw.async = true; rw.type = "text/javascript";
rw.src = p + "//" + a + "blogger.js?ck=" + ck;
s.parentNode.insertBefore(rw, s);
}(document, new Date(), "script", "rating-widget.com/"));</script>

       
Once you have added it, click on Save. You have added it successfully in your blog. To see whether it appears or not, click on view blog and view any post. If rating options appears below post article body, you have been successful.