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HOW do you ADD social media icons on your website?

by ebizman
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I'm looking to add facebook, Google, etc social buttons on my website.

how can I do this?
#add #icons #media #social #website
  • Profile picture of the author Sillysoft
    You can use pre-existing services like AddThis.com
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    • Profile picture of the author ebizman
      Originally Posted by Sillysoft View Post

      You can use pre-existing services like AddThis.com
      is this service legit or will it place ads on my site?
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      • Profile picture of the author ashu2982
        Originally Posted by ebizman View Post

        is this service legit or will it place ads on my site?
        are you kidding
        of course this is legit
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      • Profile picture of the author Sillysoft
        Originally Posted by ebizman View Post

        is this service legit or will it place ads on my site?
        Yes this is legit. Its an easy way to get all the social icons in one place with just a few lines of codes. The only drawback in my mind is it makes an external call so it may cause some extra load time for your pages. If you are using wordpress then there are plugins for social media buttons.
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    • Profile picture of the author jwmann2
      Twitter and Facebook have widgets that you can paste into your website. Also if you have for example, a WordPress website, there are social media plugins and extensions that you can upload to your website. Very easy.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ryan Donrew
    You can do this easily by using sprites, or you mean adding "like" buttons and such? if it's wordpress your using then there are plenty of plugins out there.

    If your website is html then please specify and i will build you the code block.
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  • Profile picture of the author ToddRestrepo
    If you are running wordpress a really terrric lightweight plugin is: Twitter Facebook Social Share

    You can add Google+, twitter, facebook, pinterest, stumbleupon and LinkedIn and it gives you different display options.

    Take Care!
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesPenn
    If using Wordpress, use the Really Simple Facebook Twitter Social Share plug-in.

    It works fantastically for me.

    James
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    For Wordpress sites, I use Sociable plugin
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  • Profile picture of the author oniram
    I use Lockerz Share Buttons, Sharing Widget, Sharing Plugin - AddToAny and Google plus button You can also use share this as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ralph Moore
      Just another reason I like the Weaver Pro theme for Wordpress.

      It has over 60 of these buttons built in so you can add your social sites with a couple of clicks.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheArticlePros
    WordPress › Share This « WordPress Plugins

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    WordPress › WP Socializer « WordPress Plugins

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  • Profile picture of the author jamesmorrison80
    in wordpress use Twitter Facebook Social Share
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  • Profile picture of the author ebookzz
    What kind of website do you have??

    If its wordpress i like this plug in Slick Social Share Buttons
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  • Profile picture of the author jamesmorrison80
    You might looking for icon sets repo here is a free sorted icon sets with description, type and file size Click here to view the Social Icon Set List and download it
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  • Profile picture of the author MariamN
    You can get the button manually from your Fcebook, Twitter, Google etc accounts. If you wish to get them all at once, you can try free plug ins which programmers are creating. Word Press is offering many of them.
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  • Profile picture of the author msu
    I used both AddThis and ShareThis on my site for a while and found ShareThis out-performed AddThis by a huge degree. It also automatically tracks sharing in Google Analytics.
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  • Profile picture of the author imsas
    I would recommend AddThis as they provide great analytics for your website (who share links, who clicked, etc.)
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  • Profile picture of the author Yuvraj Pratap
    you can use floatingsocialmediabuttons[.]com its free
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  • Profile picture of the author 300SMG
    Another user here of Lockerz - Add to Any
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  • Profile picture of the author Prof1tSn1per
    Almost all of the popular CMSes, blog engines your website is based on has free extensions, plugins for social sharing so check yours out!
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