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Question about Facebook, Twitter Share buttons.

by vjboc
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I am wanting to add share buttons on my site. Where is the best place to get them? Does the share script slow down the website in any way? Do people really use them? Does it depend on the type of website? My site is a price comparison site, would a share button be helpful for it? Thanks for any help in advance.
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  • Profile picture of the author wfhblueprints
    Vjboc,

    Personally since my site is based on Wordpress...I use a wordpress plugin which does the trick.

    If not you would need to get the different scripts from the different sites that you want to be able to interact with.

    Personally on my sites the sharing scripts do not seem to have an adverse effect on my site speeds.

    Kind regards

    Chris
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    Originally Posted by vjboc View Post

    I am wanting to add share buttons on my site. Where is the best place to get them?
    I use AddThis - Share Button, Social Bookmark, Sharing Plugins and Analytics for my social sharing buttons.

    You can see them in effect here...

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    Originally Posted by vjboc View Post

    Does the share script slow down the website in any way?
    They can, but rarely. Remember, they're being pulled from the third party site itself. In this case addthis.com. So if, for any reason, theres a delay at their end, it can cause a delay at yours. Usually this doesnt happen. But I have seen buttons that fail to load occasionally.

    Originally Posted by vjboc View Post

    Do people really use them?
    Absolutely.

    Originally Posted by vjboc View Post

    Does it depend on the type of website?
    It shouldn't. Of course if your site is an adult theme, it might.

    Originally Posted by vjboc View Post

    My site is a price comparison site, would a share button be helpful for it?
    Social widgets should always be part of your onsite optimisation strategy.

    Hope this helps.

    PS. For the facebook like button, go here...

    Like Button - Facebook Developers

    For the G+ button, go here...

    plusone-button

    Heres the retweet button...

    http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/06/tweetmeme-button/
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  • Profile picture of the author Mate
    If you have wordpress there are countless of plugins that will do this instantly.
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  • Profile picture of the author sonicadam123
    I use addthis aswell, I've tried a lot of different others .. including other major ones like sharethis & addtoany.

    But I prefer the feel to addthis, and the analytics are really handy too & it now supports address bar sharing!
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