Back in August I mentioned this cool little bookmarking icon that can play a huge roll in marketing your site. You can find it at the bottom of all of my posts, and on several other sites I have. I was recently asked to look at this used Honda Civics site, and was happy to find it on their site. Their site is in blog format, and if you are running a blog or a blog styled site you better get one. These little buttons make traffic.

Add This

What’s so great about that little Add This icon? Well for one, visitors use it to bookmark your site in their favorite social bookmarking sites, and also add tags. It’s a tool, and checking my stats it’s a tool that is being used more frequently. Visitors on BestWebImage.com alone, are now using it four times more than they were in September. It’s becoming to be an expected item by site visitors, and though you may think it’s not that important look around. Many of the big bloggers are using it.

The second reason to have it is because it helps you market a site, and it does it in the best way. It allows a visitor to socially bookmark it, creating a free public backlink to your site. Additionally, if they happen to select Digg as the bookmarking service you could be in for a whirlwind of traffic. Many of the services listed in the AddThis tool are big traffic suppliers, and marketing is all about getting your site seen.

A Little Comparison

Looking at the Honda site a little more I saw something that could possibly help their site, and the automotive site I mentioned in my last post, Big and Clean. Let’s say you wanted to look only for “Honda Civic 2000 used” on the Honda Site. All you would have to do is click on the year 2000 in their left sidebar, and their you are. On the other site, their is no way to search by year. Something I didn’t notice until I looked at this site.

What I am wondering is what is better for the user in this case? Would it be easier to just click on the year to find or would you rather input the year into a search form? Any suggestions out there? Searching for a car help.

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