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Social Sharing Buttons - EVIL for SEO - what you think?

by nik0 Banned
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Those social sharing buttons are nice and all but they are leaking a ton of link juice away that could flow to other pages.

What you think of that?
#buttons #evil #seo #sharing #social
  • Profile picture of the author TheInternet
    I would be surprised if Google wasn't able to tell the difference between a share button and a normal link. Besides, you get occasional links back (even if they're nofollow) and potentially substantial traffic.

    I'm willing to take the risk that sharing buttons confuse Google for the benefits of having them.
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  • Profile picture of the author PBScott
    I made my own social sharing buttons to try and combat this as much as possible.

    Most of the popular sharing services are are made as link bait, same as the tiny url services.

    On another note though, with Big G slapping down all the link bait out there, who is going to make our widgets and templates. Sure been a lot less info graphics floating around the web these days...too bad, I kind of liked them.
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    • Profile picture of the author dennis09
      Originally Posted by PBScott View Post

      I made my own social sharing buttons to try and combat this as much as possible.

      Most of them are link bait, same as the tiny url services.

      On another note though, with Big G slapping down all the link bait out there, who is going to make our widgets and templates. Sure been a lot less info graphics floating around the web these days...too bad, I kind of liked them.
      No, Google is slapping down developers dropping keyword rich anchors as the attribution link. Besides, if you just pay for the stuff you can remove it anyway.
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    I think it's normal to use Social Share buttons, because this is a great way to boost your Social presence when you have a lot of visitors to make it more and more popular...
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      My social/share buttons are done via javascript...just saying....no link juice.

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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        My social/share buttons are done via javascript...just saying....no link juice.

        Paul
        Agreed, simply use javascript or iframe to display any sharing buttons/links.
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      • Profile picture of the author nik0
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        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        My social/share buttons are done via javascript...just saying....no link juice.

        Paul
        Yeah makes sense, you use a plugin for that, if so which one?

        I believe the most popular one 'addthis' doesn't come in the javascript style.
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        • Profile picture of the author paulgl
          Yeah, I use addthis. The code is a javascript. I tried direct
          linking, but never could get anything to look or feel right on
          a webpage.

          Paul
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          • Profile picture of the author PBScott
            Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

            Yeah, I use addthis. The code is a javascript. I tried direct
            linking, but never could get anything to look or feel right on
            a webpage.

            Paul
            Addthis code on your website might not share any of your linkjuice to them, but when people use Addthis to bookmark you, that is when it takes it share, first it links to addthis, and then it redirects to you.

            You are best off using the official code from the websites you wish to share to, and then adjust it for appearance and speed as you see fit.

            Try not to involve a third party.

            I just checked AddThis PR ... it is 10...wow.
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        • Profile picture of the author MatthewWoodward
          Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

          Yeah makes sense, you use a plugin for that, if so which one?

          I believe the most popular one 'addthis' doesn't come in the javascript style.
          Most of the standard buttons the social networks give you code for are java based.

          I would assume they are not leaking any juice but you never know what Google is thinking/doing/reading ^^

          Even if they were leaking though - I wouldn't remove them, they bring too much value!
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          • Profile picture of the author yukon
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            Originally Posted by MatthewWoodward View Post

            Most of the standard buttons the social networks give you code for are java based.

            I would assume they are not leaking any juice but you never know what Google is thinking/doing/reading
            It's obvious what Google is looking at simply by looking at the Cache (text version).
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            • Profile picture of the author paulgl
              After rethinking this over, I do use addthis on most pages. But on various
              things like blogs, my twitter share is a link. Simple code. Theoretically,
              that would divide PR by another link. The FB like on those pages is
              a javascript provided by FB.

              I like the addthis on all article pages because it's neat, tidy, easy, and
              covers all bases.

              Not sure why I never thought of just a simple twitter code on that before
              as well.

              Interesting topic, at least.

              I don't think google gives much thought to seeing twitter, fb, plus one
              a site. If you did not use a javascript, and had all those other dozens
              of useless shares, it could sure muddle a lot of things, which could
              effect SEO in several potential ways.

              Paul
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