Free Tell A Friend Script For Your Blog
If you’re looking for a free “Tell a Friend” script for your website or blog, read this post to discover how to use FreeTellAFriend.com to create the buzz / viral effect for your blog. First let me clarify – YES it’s completely free, and YES you can use it for blogs AND static websites.
I came across the FreeTellAFriend.com service when I was looking for a WordPress plugin for social bookmarking, but found something much more useful. Using this service, you can do all the following at the same time:
- Put a basic “Tell-a-friend” form on your website where names and email addresses are entered manually
- Allow users to import addresses from their email accounts (Gmail / Yahoo etc), which has a more “viral” effect
- Allow users to bookmarks your blog / site with social bookmarking services like Delicious (and about 20 others)
- Allow users to bookmark directly to their PC using their browser
You can just go to the site and get the script, copy and paste it to your blog. Then when someone clicks on the image or text link, they see a window like this:
But you may want to consider creating your own account, which is also free. This allows you to change the setting of the form, and the default email subject, and the actual default message sent using the Tell-a-friend system.
More importantly though, you can then check your stats and see how many users have emailed their friends about your site, saved your pages to social bookmarking services, or bookmarked it on their PC. This is powerful as without this you never know if the Tell-a-friend is working at all on your website.
Ideally, you would want to create your own images that match your blog or website. This makes it look pretty integrated – you could also do away with images and just use a text link.
To test it out, click on the image at the bottom of this post to start the form and click around to see how it works. Also, while you’re at it maybe you could do us a favor and save this site to your social bookmarks, Facebook, Stumble it, or recommend it to your friends who have a website 
Website: FreeTellAFriend.com or get the WordPress Plugin
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Thanks abunch Gobala, now blog marketing even easier for bloggers by using this service and it’s free.
It make our life in IM simple.
Thanks Gobala.
Thanks Gobala..
This in incredibly fantastic!
Would you really want your readers to enter their gmail password which is the key to other services such as Adsense, Adwords etc?
There are safer methods of implementing a tell-a-friend
Not to mention there are considerations using it with Aweber and have you read the ToS for each of the email services?
I love this idea, but when I tried to open an account with them, their site would *not* accept the human verification code (similar to Capcha).
I entered the codes correctly, time after time, and got repeated error messages. I have emailed their support. We’ll see what happened.
HI Gobala
Thanks for the awesome plugin.
Going to install it on my websites tonight..
Andy, whats the issue with Aweber?
I use them for my email, why would they care if i use this?
Wow I love this idea, it looks like a great way to get some more free marketing from my visitors. One of the great things about having a base of internet marketers as my readers is I get a good amount of free exposure of social networks
Here is the official version from the Aweber Knowledgebase.
http://www.aweber.com/faq/questions/267/Can+I+Use+a+Tell+a+Friend+Form+With+AWeber%3F
However I have heard there are ways to get conventional tell-a-friend approved if you don’t have an Aweber opt-in form on the same page….
That really precludes most blogs who have an opt-in mechanism of some kind on every page.
I have written about various scripts similar to this a number of times, most of which are much more powerful because they enable incentivised offers based upon various requirements.
My gmail account is effectively the keys to half my online business. If I wouldn’t be willing to hand over those keys, why would I encourage my visitors to do the same?
Awesome share Gobala. Just what I was looking for my blog. I love the whole facebook style tell-a-friend idea. I think it great. I’m testing a similar script on my landing pages and its have boost my opt-in rates, this kind of script is awesome in driving traffic to your landing pages or your blog.
Thanks again mate. cheers
This is a great marketing tip, I actually saw one of these on one of my merchant’s sites and am now using it on my a couple of my blogs. I think this is especially good for niche sites, people always share a good find with friends and family.
this is something i wouldnt use the moment i did the trial i thought how dodgy i have to enter my email address AND password…no way…
it does not work to get contacts from my Gmail account
The free script is a bit unreliable
gmail does not work in this script