social media: sharing is caring with add this

Social Media: Sharing is Caring

Business Tools: Add This

http://www.addthis.com/

By: www.sladesherman.com

Is Your Website Social Media Friendly? Do your web pages point to sites like

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Ask and Stumble Upon?

Is it easy for people viewing articles, listings and products to share your pages with their friends and networks?

It’s easy to use the same tools as online publishers with this free tool:

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What does Add This Do? Adds sharing to your website, blog or

newsletter. AddThis is easy to install and highly effective. Offers analytics so you can see where your

content is being shared. When visitors to your site use AddThis, your

web pages can be shared resulting in: Increased traffic to your pages/site. Better search engine ranking. Increased site popularity.




Add This: Process1. Add This Widget is

placed on your webpage.

2. User mousses over ‘Add This’ widget and is instructed to ‘Select a Service’

3. User selects Facebook.

4. Add This contacts the users account in Facebook and posts a link to your page in their status.

5. Process is the same for other social media.



Setup Add This on your Site:1. Go to www.addthis.com2. Click on ‘Get Your Button’





Setup ‘Add This’ on your Site:3. Select the options for your ‘add this’ button

by completing the steps on the form.




Setup ‘Add This’ on your Site:4. You can nominate to have an Add This

button for either ‘sharing and bookmarking button’ or ‘RSS feed button’.

5. Once you complete the form click on ‘get your button code’.




Setup ‘Add This’ on your Site:6. Copy the code from ‘Add This’ and paste this

on your web page.7. You can also track your ‘Add This’ button by

joining ‘Add This’.




Setup ‘Add This’ on your Site:8. Once the ‘Add This’ code is placed on your

page the button appears on the page.




Who Else Uses ‘Add This’? Launched in 2006 Add This is used on

hundreds of thousands of websites including: SAP TIME Magazine Entertainment Weekly Lonely Planet MapQuest PGA Tour FOX ABC CBS

Currently viewed over 20 billion times a month.



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