Adding "Digg This" Links to Your Blog Posts

Have you seen "Digg This", "Digg It" and other various Digg-related hyperlinks at the bottom of blog posts recently (including this one)?  PR Squared recently had a good post answering some basic questions on the Social Media News Release (SMNR), especially when dealing with the subject of SMNR's and Technorati tagging to establish thematic relationships with your news releases. 

One portion of the post dealt specifically with adding "Digg It/Digg This" capability to the bottom or your SMNR or Blog Posts in order to allow users to easily submit your releases to the popular article community site, Digg.  This blog post provides examples of more advanced ways to enable users to automatically submit your article (with title and URL) to Digg, without manually entering in the information.  Specific Digg material on integrating Digg into your site and SMNR's can be found here.

A Couple Initial Notes on Digg

• You still need to have a registered account to submit information.
• Make sure to adhere to the Digg TOS for quality guidelines and read their FAQ ahead of time.

General Social Media News Releases
The additional code for your hyperlink to "Digg This" is very simple and requires only a slight bit of coding on the author's part.  Simply hyperlink the "Digg" text as follows using standard HTML:

• <A HREF="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=DOMAIN.COM&title=STORY TITLE">DIGG</A>
• In this case, substitute DOMAIN.COM with the web address of your SMNR and "STORY TITLE" with your specific Title.
• You can add more information to this hyperlink (such as description and topic), but I find that this can get a bit cumbersome for code purposes and offers more potential for error in coding.

Adding "Digg This" to TypePad Blogs
Because blog posts are dynamic in nature, it is slightly difficult to manually enter you code in each individual post.  Rather, your blog administrator can adjust the template of the posts to incorporate the functionality automatically. 

Instead of static parameters, TypePad users need to implement the code associated with appropriate tags in order to implement "Digg This" functionality.  That means that:

• url=<$MTEntryPermalink$>
• title=<$MTEntryTitle$>

The code that needs to be placed in the template will look like this:

• <A HREF="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=<$MTEntry
  Permalink$>&title=<$MTEntryTitle$>">DIGG</A>

WordPress Functionality
Bloggers using WordPress need to follow these guidelines for proper coding:

• url=<?php the_permalink() ?>
• title=<?php the_title(); ?>

And your code for the WordPress template:

• <A HREF="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>">DIGG</A>

Using Digg with Blogger
I'm not a fan of adding a lot to Blogger in general, because if you don't save your files, then decide you want to use a new template, anything you do from a customization standpoint is lost.  That being said, here is the code for Blogger as well:

• url=<$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$>
• title=<$BlogItemTitle$>

The final product:

• <A HREF="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=<$BlogItemPerm
  alinkUrl$>&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>">DIGG</A>

The only thing left to do in any of these instances is locating the exact place where you want this link to appear.  I suggest having it at the very end of your post(s), somewhere in the footer section.  If you have any difficulty, or need assistance, feel free to comment back and I'll see if I can assist with placement and specific locations.  Enjoy!