get social!
September 4, 2009
Yesterday I finally got around to asking Raincoaster about the snazzy social networking icons she has on her posts. And she gave me the scoop on Get Social.
So I am now adding Get Social icons to my posts and have back-dated them to August 1st. Which took more time than I would like to admit. But doing it on a daily basis takes no time at all. Anyhow, what do you think? Cute? Garish? Have no idea what to do with them?
Must start doing shortlinks from now on…
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They look great, but do people really use them? I ask because during a six-week trial period where I stuck them on every post, the effect was zero. I’m sure you already know this, but you and your blog also have to be registered with the social media behind each button, or it won’t work even if someone does click on it.
That’s not entirely correct Ian
The blog owner doesn’t need to have a user in any of the social networks in order to get bookmarked – only the visitors that click the buttons need to have such users.
Furthermore, these days a simple face book account is all you need in order to log in to some of these networks (e.g. – Digg)!
Thanks Din (and welcome!). I was pretty sure that the blog owner didn’t need to be registered, just the person doing the bookmarking.
I’m signed up to about half those places, with Twitter and Stumbleupon being my favourites.
My hits went up by 25% when I started using them: Facebook is now my largest referrer, and Twitter my second-largest. I put that down to GetSocial.
you social media techy you…
What? Huh?