How to Add an Email This Button to Your Blog Post
Have you ever seen one of those cool little buttons in some blogs that says Email This. It is not just on blogs, it is on a lot of other sites like Yahoo, and others. Well what is the point of those, and how do they do it?
This actually is a great way of word of mouth advertising. Your users can suggest a great article to their friends, and you get new readers. That is why a lot of sites use this sort of feature.
In this post I will show you how you can put one on your blog. It is quite easy actually because you are using a javascript. This javascript lets the user click on the link, and it will open up their default email program with the link to your post. It does not jeopardizes anyone’s email, so it is secure.
<script type="text/javascript">
<!– Begin
function isPPC() {
if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("PPC") != -1) return true;
else return false;
}
if(isPPC()) {
document.write(‘<a class="contact" HREF=\"mailto:\?subject\=Check out this page I found, ‘ + document.title + ‘?body=You can view this page by following this url: ‘ + window.location + ‘\” onMouseOver=”window.status=\’Send your friends e-mail about this page\’; return true” TITLE=”Send your friends e-mail about this page”>Email to a Friend<\/a>’);
}
else { document.write(’<a class=”contact” HREF=\”mailto:\?body\=Check out this page I found ‘ + document.title + ‘. You can view this page by following this url: ‘ + window.location + ‘\” onMouseOver=”window.status=\’Send your friends e-mail about this page\’; return true” TITLE=”Send your friends e-mail about this page” rel=”nofollow”>Email This!<\/a>’);
}
// End –>
</script>
I don’t have this on Balkhis but hopefully whenever I redesign, I will add this feature in. This is a great way of making connections with your reader’s friends. So implement it when you can.
Hey, I am Syed Balkhi, The guy who is behind Balkhis Inc. I entered the industry back in 2002 not knowing a single thing. I barely spoke English at that time. In the past six years, my language barrier has been eliminated. Aside from English, now I also speak html, and php. Along with the languages I have also managed to master a few arts. Art of web-designing started when I first entered. Messing around with photoshop, I learned how to create my first web design. Now I founded a web designing firm Uzzz Productions. After running numerous amount of websites in various niche, I have mastered the art of web-development. Now I am compiling a resource of what I already know, and what I am learning on this blog. This resource is to help me if I ever need a guide to look back to, and it is help my fellow webmasters.
Nice one..i will try this thing on my blog.
Thanks Balkhis and sorry for the loss on your Grand father’s death
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Great tutorial, thanks!
Nice. Thing is, I’ve never seen this as anything significant. If anyone ever even does email an article to a friend (instead of IMing them, tweeting them, etc, etc) it’s only one more visitor. I just feel no one really uses that feature.
I definitely could be wrong though.
Did you have any success with “email-me” button on your sites?
I have never paid attention to such little things .
It’s a great idea. Sometimes little things like this matter. Besides – you want to provide as many avenues into your blog as possible.
I do not know whether this is such a good idea Syed. I normally send the URL of the page to whoever I wish to read my blog apart from the regular readers. When you put yours up, I shall see quite how it looks and take it from there.
It sounds like a great plan to try. I tired to see what the code you wrote about looks like on frontpage but it didn’t work, is there a certain place you can get this button?
I agree with most people here that it is of little or no use. Feedburner mails themselves have a ‘Email this’ link in them. Also the reader can just forward the feedburner mail from his inbox. Shouldn’t this be much more convenient because you can access all your contacts much more easily..
You are right, the ‘email this’ button is extremely useful in a sense it is kind of viral marketing. So thanks for that information.
I actually think it is a great idea to add the button because this quite a good viral marketing technique. So thanks for the idea and the info about how to put it into practice.
Nice and easy tip. How it behaves if Javascript is disabled ?
Nice tutorial and I have this feature on one blog. Do you see this feature being utilized that much as with the blog I have it on, it does not get that much use.
I did notice that some visitors actually come to my site from emails being sent to them (most likely by their friends).
Even if it’s only a few, visitors are still visitors!
Does this button just create the message in your email client and fill in the subject and add short text to the body?
@Webkinz, glancing over the code, yeah, that looks like what it does.
Yeah works the same as Tell a friend script. Gets really viral.
Thanks buddy. I will try it out on my blog
I was actually looking for this for a while. Didn’t get around to google it though. Thanks for the post.
I’m on the fence about this… I’ve used similar tools in the past, checked logs, and found that nobody really used them. However, people forward stuff to me from sites every so often, so obviously some people use them. Really, it couldn’t hurt.
I prefer to use plugin to do that
I was looking through your web design section and I didn’t see anything on how to put a video on your website. I was just wondering how to do that.
Very easy to follow. Great tutorial
The add email button is a great little button feature, I can’t wait to see how it will be utilized on your future site update. I wonder how successful the current “social bookmarking” thing you have is.
Thanks for giving such code for any websites.I will try this on my side.I will reply you.
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Thanks buddy.Sometimes little things like this matter.I just feel no one really uses that feature.
Thanks Syed. I will try it on my blog too.
I wish you had an example here, but I think I get what it does…