December 14th, 2011 by Kori Hill in Using AddThis, What's New
You may notice that the sharing menus on our blog and other pages on AddThis.com look a little different today. We’ve rolled out some new tools that are simple and streamlined.
These updated tools are designed to boost sharing by showing more of the viewer’s personalized services as a simple, friendly list. We’ve also redesigned and expanded the AddThis email form to be even easier to use.
If you want to try out these buttons for your own site they are available here.
Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback – we’d love to hear from you.
December 13th, 2011 by Greg Cypes in Using AddThis
The response to our inforgraphic on sharing trends from 2010 was so high, we knew we had to follow up this year. Allow us to introduce trends in sharing for 2011. Beyond just the most popular sharing services, we’ve taken a look back at the most shared stories this year. It’s been an amazing one for us at Clearspring. We’re proud to say AddThis is now on 11 million domains world wide! We hope you’ve had a great year, too. Here’s to 2011 and an even better 2012!
November 22nd, 2011 by Kori Hill in Updates, Using AddThis, What's New
This morning we are very excited to announce that AddThis now supports sharing to Pinterest! You can now start pinning interesting and fun images to your board.
Pinterest is a rapidly-growing image sharing social network which according to Businessweek has seen traffic grow 7x in the past 5 months. The site allows users to create “boards” for inspiration and has been furiously adopted by DIY crafters and bloggers.
To get your site set up with a Pinterest button follow the steps here. Please let us know if you have any questions!
November 3rd, 2011 by Kori Hill in Using AddThis, What's New
StumbleUpon is one of the most popular sharing services on AddThis and can be an important driver of new traffic to your site. Now you can use AddThis analytics to track the number of clicks to your content from StumbleUpon, also known as “Stumbles”.
Just like our Facebook, bit.ly and Twitter integrations, you do not need to make any changes to start receiving StumbleUpon data. StumbleUpon stats are shown on the Content Detail page of the associated story, which you can find by clicking on any piece on content in your Analytics dashboard or from the Content tab.
If you have any feedback or requests for other 3rd party tracking services you would like to see in the AddThis Analytics, please post in the comments below or email us.
October 28th, 2011 by Greg Cypes in Tips, Using AddThis, What's New
We know many of you out there use Google Analytics to help measure your site traffic and how users explore and engage with your content. We also know how you rely on AddThis to enable sharing and to provide social analytics for your website.
For publishers who use Google as their primary source for site analytics, injecting AddThis social insight data into Google Analytics enables you to analyze user interactions from our sharing tools as well as Facebook Like and Twitter Tweet right inside Google’s dashboard. Of course all of your real-time and rich audience data will still be available in your AddThis dashboard, too.
It is very easy to get AddThis for your site, and even easier to integrate Google Analytics. Get started today.
October 7th, 2011 by Kori Hill in Updates, Using AddThis, What's New
This week we released 5 new services into the AddThis menu. Godudu, Ketnooi, Raise Your Voice, SkyRock, and WebShare.
We are constantly updating our service list to make sure that it is easy to share content everywhere online. If there is a service you like to use that is not included in the AddThis menu, please shoot us a note and we’ll do what we can to get it in there!
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email us or post in the comments below.
October 5th, 2011 by Kori Hill in Updates, Using AddThis, What's New
The AddThis Address Bar Sharing Analytics feature is now available with in Chrome versions 14 and above. We can now track copy and paste data from Safari, Firefox and Chrome, which covers 50% of the browser market share.
For those who do not know, Address Bar Sharing Analytics is a feature that measures how often users share your site by copying the URL from their address bar and send it via email. IM or other channels. Getting this data is a great way to understand ALL of your content that is being socialized and better understand where some of that direct traffic is coming from.
Turning on Address Bar Sharing Analytics for your website is super easy and only takes one additional line to your AddThis code:
<script type="text/javascript">
var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};
</script>
As always, please let us know if you have any questions or feedback.
September 20th, 2011 by elizabeth in Updates, Using AddThis, What's New
If you think our Firefox, Internet Explorer, and recently updated Chrome extensions are rad, hold onto your hats, ’cause we’ve just added another to the mix – AddThis for Apple Safari!
Now (whether you use Firefox, IE, Chrome, or Safari) you can have all your favorite social networking, bookmarking, blogging, and e-mail services at your fingertips – with one click, AddThis enables you to instantly share and bookmark web pages, blogs, news, photos, videos, and any other content to the most popular destinations.
Customize Your Toolbar View
Like all of our browser extensions, the default view displays popular services you can share to using AddThis. If you’d like to choose which services are displayed you have the option to customize your menu; it’s super easy, just click on the wrench located at the far right of the toolbar and then add or remove services accordingly.
If you love using Safari and haven’t downloaded our extension yet, click the image below to install AddThis for Safari now!
Got questions or feedback on our browser extensions? Let us know! Drop a note on our forum or hit me up on Twitter – twitter.com/AddThisMaven
