Increasing Traffic To Your Site With Drupal

Making one-click submissions to aggregator sites is one of the easiest ways to increase traffic and search engine ranking, and it's fairly simple with Drupal. This is absolutely a work in progress, but I wanted to throw together some ideas and define the links I've put in the "Syndicate" block below this article. If there are any requests, maybe for aggregator sites that don't make it easy to create these kinds of dynamic links, please leave a comment -- I'd love to figure out a drupal hack for them.

First, Del.icio.us

This is an easy one, as it requires nothing on your end. Just put this in the URL, and any page gets put into del.icio.us.
onclick="window.open('http://del.icio.us/post?v=4 &noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+' &title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=700,height=400'); return false;
The image is http://images.del.icio.us/static/img/delicious.small.gif

DIGG
Currently, Digg makes it damn near impossible to submit code anywhere near them without jumping through a series of flaming hoops. Ainsi, the lameass link to the submit page.
to http://www.digg.com/submit
The image is http://digg.com/img/badges/10x10-digg-thumb.gif

Technorati
This simply links to http://technorati.com/faves?sub=addfavbtn&add=http://www.prodromic.com
It'll favorite this site, but doesn't do much for specific entries. The image is Technorati's favicon.ico

Reddit
This took a simple line of PHP to hack its way in.
http://reddit.com/submit?url=http://www.prodromic.com/jon/?<?php echo $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] ?> This is cheap, but it gets the job done for linking whatever entry you're on with a Reddit submission. The image is the favicon.ico here, too.

This is probably as good a place as any to mention you'll need to set your input format to PHP, which means line breaks aren't auto formatted as <BR>, and that means more typing.

Furl
Does anyone even use Furl? Well, if you do, here's how to use it. It's a mouthful, so rather than try to type it here and try to keep it form rendering, just check out this textfile. The image is just their generic http://www.furl.net/i/lil_furl_butt.gif that's used everywhere on the site.

Newsvine
Similar formulae for Newsvine and StumbleUpon. For NV, use the URL as such: newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save?u=http://www.prodromic.com/?<?php echo $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] ?>&h=<?php echo $head_title; ?> The image is http://www.newsvine.com/_vine/images/_/shield_small_white.gif, with the height and width specified as 14 (or Safari views them as odd sizes.)

StumbleUpon
Similar deal, here: stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.prodromic.com/ ?<?php echo $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] ?>&title=<?php echo $head_title; ?> where the image is just the plain favicon.ico

More later...

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