I'm really impressed by some of the new and effective internet marketing strategies that have been coming out lately. On LinkedIn, I saw a post for a sharing widget and decided that it would be cool to add this functionality to the collection of social media buttons on Florida SEO Blog. [directions to install the code].

As long as LinkedIn doesn't decide to change the API too much, I can have my readers spread the word about the content on Florida Search Engine Optimization and Florida SEO Blog to all of their contacts in LinkedIn and possibly expand Florida Search Engine Optimization's reach to a targeted market that otherwise I would not be accessible to.

For the CF coders that want to install the LinkedIn code on to BlogCFC, it's not too hard. There are five URL variables to be updated to share the article submission with your LinkedIn network.

• 1. The LinkedIn URL
• 2. The Article URL
• 3. The Article Title
• 4. The Article Source
• 5. The Article Summary

http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=

    {articleUrl}&title={articleTitle}&summary={articleSummary}

    &source={articleSource}

I added the following code to the row of BlogCFC's social media buttons around line 100 of index.cfm. The content for this area is within div class="byline". If you want to add a LinkedIn Icon ... there's a good set of LinkedIn Icons here ... I used the 16px version.

<img src="#application.rooturl#/images/LinkedIn_16.png" align="middle" title="Share on LinkedIn!" 

   height="16" width="16"> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=

   #application.blog.makeLink(id)#&title=#URLEncodedFormat("#title#")#&summary=

   #URLEncodedFormat("#Left(application.blog.renderEntry(body,false,enclosure),200)#")#&source=

   #URLEncodedFormat("#application.blog.getProperty('blogTitle')#")#" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn Share!</a>

Oh Yeah ... If you liked this article ... Don't forget to share it with your LinkedIn network ... :)