Promotion is a very important part of every blog. There are many ways to promote your blog. One of the most popular is social networking and bookmarking websites. To do this in Drupal is very simple.

Download share this module first from official Drupal website. Extract downloaded software and upload extracted folder to your remote server sites/default/modules directory. Enable this module in administer/site_building/modules

Next go to administer/site_configuration/sharethis and configure share this module the way you want. The most important is to enable share this module at the top of the page and under Node type and positioning section you must to choose for what content types to display this module.

What this module can do you can check by clicking on share this link under this post. This will extend menu with 36 available social network and bookmarking websites. By clicking on one of this websites name you will be redirected to this website bookmarking page. You must to have an account with this website to leave a bookmark.

Why you must to use it on your website? First if you are bookmarking content of your blog yourself it is useful to have all links right beside you. All what you must to do is to click on them. Also you are giving availability for your blog visitors to share content with their friends via e-mail.

Another benefit of share this module is possibility to configure share this pop up window the way you want. To do this you will must to create an account on Share this official website. Proceed through all steps and insert code on the administer/site_configuration/share_this page. You can check button statistic usage on share this website also.

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