Not all your content is created equal. Most blogs and sites have pages that are necessary for the functionality of the site, like category and author pages on your blog. Although they may be viewed a lot by your visitors, it may not be a page you want your content recommendation widgets showing your visitors. Does this sound familiar? Continue →
With temperatures warming up and summer right around the corner, it’s time for little league games, pick up soccer matches, and getting in shape for upcoming vacations. But before we jump into these activities, we need the proper athletic equipment, shoes, and clothes. Right? We decided to see who the sports retail advocates are at this time of year, and how we can find them online. Continue →
When you design a mobile version of your website or create a responsive design that adjusts to different screen sizes, chances are that not all your widgets will work well with your new design. And then you have to go through and restyle them for every screen size in your theme. Unless you have AddThis’ mobile-friendly widgets.
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The video game industry has thrived even in the midst of a recession. Revenue is over $60 billion a year, and projected to reach $82 billion by 2017. Even so, marketing is critical to make games stand out in a bulging supply. With the growth of social media, how has searching and sharing represented sales for video games? Are there predictors in the strength of a release? Continue →
For a number of years, Merchtable has been using free AddThis tools to increase sharing across all of their online stores. When they wanted to take it further, they upgraded to AddThis Pro for its advanced content recommendations to show visitors related products that they might be interested in. The result was very pleasing.
This week we watched Bubba Watson win his second Masters tournament and filed our taxes. We also heard about the sinking of a South Korean ferry. But the list of this week’s most popular stories on social were a little different. Let’s take a look.
There are some instances where JavaScript won’t work, such as email and with some content management systems. Yet we have a simple solution that can still get sharing buttons onto your next email campaign.
Like most website owners, you’re probably noticing that you’re getting more and more traffic from mobile devices, like smartphones and tablets. And to help all those mobile users share your content, we just launched a new mobile sharing toolbar for AddThis Pro users. Continue →
This week we learned about UConn men and women’s basketball national titles, an online security flaw, more updates about the Malaysian Airlines plane, and sadly, Mickey Rooney’s death. We did see other popular stories sharing across the web. Here’s what trended this week.
By now you may have heard of the security vulnerability CVE-2014-0160 popularly known as Heartbleed. This was a bug in the popular OpenSSL encryption library used by a majority of web sites, including AddThis. Continue →
