Should you use Social Media Buttons?

Why Social Media Buttons


Because we want people to share our content

Of course making it easy is the goal

Everyone else has them right!

Site Speed




Tracking




Social media buttons help social sites track you around the web

People are much more attuned to being tracked

Social proof right?


They provide social proof for your content

On many sites they are simply a vast wasteland of no clicks

Articles have 22,000 views and not a single social vote
Drop Social Media Buttons                     

But they're part of Social Strategy?


No they aren't they're a way to fool yourself in to thinking you have a social strategy


Social media strategy is:
  • excellent content
  • serious networking
  • constant engagement

What about Mobile?


All that speed stuff x10 and the extra weight adds to bandwidth

Often take 2 clicks to activate
And the buttons are small
Then you have to type in passwords on your device

Increased Sharing


A number of sites have reported increased sharing when they removed social buttons



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Should you use Social Media Buttons?

By curtismchale

Should you use Social Media Buttons?

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