Sexybookmarks plugin – 9 steps to set it up easily

Sexybookmarks is an extremely useful plugin created by Shareaholic. It’s a great tool to help your readers submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites, social networking sites and easily share the articles by email. Without a doubt, that way you can increase traffic to your blog. What’s more the plugin looks really cool . Have a look underneath.

How to set it up

1. In your dashboard got to Plugins and choose Add New.

2. Type in Sexybookmarks and hit Search.

3. Choose Sexybookmarks and hit Install.

4. After successful installation go to Settings in your dashboard and find Sexybookmarks among other plugins and settings.

5. When you click on it it will take you to the plugin configuration dashboard.

6. Firstly, choose the networks you want to display on your blog, you can drag them to order the way you like it. There are 90 icons to choose from. It’s up to you, how many you choose and which ones but I recommend: dig, mix, reddit, stumbleupon, propeller, delicious, google buzz, facebook, twitter, email to friend, technorati, friendfeed.

7. Now, let’s go to Functionality Settings. You should choose: add nofollow to the links and open links in a new window. The first one is better for SEO and the second one is obvious if you want to save your readers time on looking again for your website.

8. The next step is Plugin Aesthetics. Most of the options are already set by default. You can change them and choose a background image you like.