Automatically Add Social Bookmarking Links

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For the past couple of months, I have been trying to find a way to automatically add social bookmarking links (such as DiggIt and del.icio.us) to my posts. Finally after much searching, I found instructions on how to modify my blogger template. You can find the instructions at here. I only ran into one problem when I saved my modified template. Blogger reported "...element type "h3" must be terminated ..." the fix for this is to remove the statement that is just before the Statement. Clear as mud right? If you follow the article it's relatively easy. I had to read the article twice before I made changes. And as I worked with my template code I realized what they were talking about. To help you, here's my code before the change (the lines in red is the "data:post.link" that TekArtist's article is refering to):

  <h3 class="post-title">
<b:if cond="data:post.link">
  <a href="data:post.link"><data:post.title></data:post.title></a>
<b:else>
   <b:if cond="data:post.url">
     <a href="data:post.url"><data:post.title></data:post.title></a>
   <b:else>
     <data:post.title>
   </data:post.title>
</b:else>
 </b:if>
</b:else>
</b:if>
</h3>

and here is what I changed (the '<!--' and '-->' are used to comment out section of HTML code and are ignored by the browser):

     <h3 class='post-title'>
<!-- commented out to ensure no conflict with the default template behavior for the link data.
     <b:if cond='data:post.link'>
       <a expr:href='data:post.link'><data:post.title/></a>
     <b:else/>
-->
      <b:if cond='data:post.url'>
        <a expr:href='data:post.url'><data:post.title/></a>
      <b:else/>
        <data:post.title/>
      </b:if>
<!-- comment out because of the previously commented out section above this
     </b:if>
-->
    </h3>
  </b:if>

After you have made all the changes recommended by TekArtist, you can add more social bookmark links. I found the code for many of them listed here at Myo Kyaw Htun's site. Let me know how this works for you and if you need any further clarifications.