Importance of Social Media Buttons

By Jamie Faidley Tweet

In the history of the Internet, it has never been easy for site owners to get links.  No longer does a visitor have to have a blog where they copy and paste your URL over to a post on their site to give you a link.  Now, most of the visitors have a Twitter or Facebook account.  If someone thinks what you are posting is interesting all they have to do is push a button to send out a tweet or a status update with your link.

The key is making it easy and the way to do that is to make sure you have social media buttons on every page of your site.  This way the user doesn't have to go to the actual site of Twitter or Facebook in order to share your link with the world.  All they should have to do is click a button.

Many people think these buttons are not worth the time because the links are no-followed.  However, both Twitter and Facebook feed other sites which do not put "nofollow" tags on their links.  Plus, isn't the added exposure worth it even without the link juice?  I think so.

One important thing to note is that people are followers.  Nobody wants to be the first person to like or tweet your post.  But, once you start getting escalating numbers by your likes or tweets, more people will push the button and do the same.

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