Introduction:

Addthis.com is one of those very many social networking or sites built around social networking or sharing site.  This particular site deals with social bookmarkings and sharing them.  Addthis.com is nothing but a too or a button which you can use to subscribe to a particular blog or blog post or anything or any sites for that matter.

This site or tool was born out of the need for a single tool or button to access all or the famous social bookmarking or sharing sites.  This came as a boon for the blog owners and site owners so that it saved them a lot of space on their page as this button occupies very little space and can hold as many social bookmarking sites for everyone’s needs.  This also made the life easier for the readers who find it hard to bookmark a particular blog or site of their interest to their favorite social bookmarking or social news sharing sites from a single point console and Addthis.com made it possible.

Within a short span of one year Addthis has become the number one social bookmarking and sharing button or site.

Features:

One important feature with Addthis is that you get to choose any social bookmarking site that you like and they have them in their button, so that you can use any one of them and proceed.  It is easy to use and bookmark and share.  It helps in promoting ones blog or website from their perspective.  From the webmaster’s perspective this helps in increasing ranking or popularity of their blogs or sites.  Apart from helping in bookmarking and sharing, Addthis.com has the option of giving the detailed statistics for both the webmasters and the end users.  It is very easy to install and use.

The best part of Addthis.com is that using this you can easily add any page found on the net to your favorite site sharing or bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us, MySpace, Facebook, Google Bookmarks, Yahoo Buzz, etc.

Tips & Tricks:

For the webmasters you can easily install them by customizing it according to your needs and add them to your blog or website with just a push of a button.  For others you can just look for this button and choose the bookmarking site that you use and proceed.  If you want to have an extensive collection of sites and blogs to subscribe or bookmark to use the most popular ones as you can easily bookmark them through Addthis in a single click, else you will have to proceed to a new page and search for the bookmarking site and then proceed, this will save some extra time for you.  Sometimes you will also not find the bookmarking site that you use, here and hence making it tougher for you to use Addthis.

Newbie Friendly Rating:

Since Addthis has made life easier for both the webmasters and the readers together by removing a lot of clutter and saving time and space, Addthis.com can be offered a rating of 9 out of 10.