Social Sharing Buttons: SEO friendly ?
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Any recommendations for an SEO friendly social sharing button company? Or ones that provide a good service and also actually helps your brand name in SEO?
I think it is important for others to be able to share my pages with colleagues and others.
Thank you,
UtahTiger
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I keep a little text file with the easiest generic code for buttons to social links, that I can paste quite reqularly.
Many of them are javascript and ugly, but I refuse to link to add this, etc..
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I just took out the last line of code that that has the visible addthis link with that ugly box overlay.
It was easy, & now all I have left is the little squares that do not expand out into the addthis link.
As well as the idea that if ass this takes away one link by linking to their site, how many more links to they give a webpage owner by making sure that more people are adding an sharing thus linking to original content. It seems like a one step back gets you ten steps forward situation.
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I use Addthis on my site:
It shows in their analytics as well as GA. The only problem I had with them was that it was slow at 1st. Then I added a script to my header,and my pages started load FAST FAST FAST. I didn't know that Addthis was making them slow in the beginning. I have ass this on almost every page including the blog and a couple ecommerce sites of mine.
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AddThis does have the hidden links to their website in the toolbar which is a concern - http://phill.co/seo/dont-use-the-addthis-social-sharing-toolbar-its-bad-for-seo did a good write up on it, I mean if you want to give some one a free site wide link this is something worth looking into.
That been said their are plenty on the market Sharing is Sexy was a good on, I would research into the specific plug in before using it.
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Here is enough reading to make your head spin...
share this VS add this
http://www.seomoz.org/q/sharethis-vs-addthis
Integrating personal communication with sharing to increase the shares.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-increase-the-odds-of-your-content-going-viral-whiteboard-friday
Add this using conacial links.
http://www.seomoz.org/q/i-just-discovered-something-about-addthis-shares-twitter-and-rel-canonical
EGOL & others talking about add this.
http://www.seomoz.org/q/addthis-widget-tracking-success
I have been doing research on this very same thing in the past few weeks.
I'm more then likely going to go with Add This.
Note;
I JUST discovered this:
I work with photos...
http://www.addthis.com/labs/photo-sharing
I'm going to scream & dance now...
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That is good info...thanks....but I was talking about companies like www.addthis.com and www.sharethis.com
Where they supply additional SEO possibly and also have all the social linked buttons attached that can be put on our landing pages.
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Hi utatiger,
Did you mean social friendly sites so that you can add buttons to your site?
Try Google +, FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Stumpleupon, Reddit, Digg, Paper.li A video on the top 15 referral sites - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kN6-Opsqv8&list=UUvOLeOv_0_ijT8JlmxAFmGA&index=3&feature=plcp
Regards,
Vahe
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I would love to see some recommendations on good sharing buttons as well.
With the way SEO is trending sharing is gaining importance.
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