You are placing "Share This" buttons on your web pages, aren't you? If you care about the power of Social Networking—and you should—then these buttons will encourage your visitors to quickly and easily share your web page with social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, and Delicious.
What 'Share This' Buttons Are
'Share This' Buttons are buttons or a button toolbar that have one or more icons that a visitor can click on to share your page with a social networking site. For example, a 'Facebook' icon, when clicked on, will allow the visitor to quickly add a link to your web page onto their Facebook Wall so that their Facebook friends can see the link and view your web page.
This is, in effect, free word-of-mouth advertising!
Oh. Did I mention they're free?
How to Add 'Share This' Buttons to Your Web Page
It's easy to add these buttons to your web pages. You will, however, have to be able to edit the html code of your web page and then upload the new web page to your web site host. If you are uncomfortable with this, then your web developer can do it. The whole process takes about 15 minutes.
- Go to one of the 'Share This' web sites below, choose which button configuration you want, and copy the JavaScript code.
- Open up your web page for editing and simply paste the JavaScript code where you want the buttons to appear.
- Upload your new web page to your hosting server.
That's it!
Where to get the Buttons
Here are three of the most popular 'Share This' button generator sites:
Have fun!
