Increase Your Sharing. Put Your AddThis Button Front and Center.
April 7th, 2009 by Justin Thorp in Using AddThisThe purpose of AddThis is to help your Web pages get shared far and wide to every corner of the Social Web. Yet, all too often when I’m surfing around the Web, I see that a publisher has put the share button in the very bottom corner of the site where no one will see it.
If your user comes to your site, thinks it’s really rad, and wants to share it, you should make the AddThis button really obviously placed so your users can find it. Put your AddThis button front and center. The faster users can find the button the more likely it is they will share. The more your users share your content the more traffic you’ll get.
The AddThis button is the most widely used sharing button on the Web. It’s loaded over 20 billion times every month, all across the Web by users all over the world. It has become the de facto standard. When users see it, they’ll recognize it.
Here are two examples of folks who do it right…
Frank Gruber of the personal technology lifestyle blog Somewhat Frank makes his AddThis button easy to find:
The entirely adorable Web site The Daily Puppy also puts AddThis front and center:
Where is the AddThis button on your site? How’s it been going for you guys?
I just stumbled across your site today and I have to confess that we didn’t even have the addthis plugin on our blog. I just notified our webmaster and hopefully, we will have it on our blog soon.
@Mark. Glad to hear it. Let us know if there is anything we can do to make it better for you.
Maybe you can help with an issue. Is it possible to have the addthisbutton link to a particular story on a blog without the linker being on the actual post page, but on the main page?
Also, how do you get the addthis button to show up in the RSS feed per post?
How do you decide which sharing services buttons to show? Do you just do the most popular ones like Facebook, Twitter, etc?
@Badminton – Our ranking algorithm looks at what’s most popular, what your browser language is set to, and what you’ve previously shared to determine the order that you see.
Currently we place Add This buttons on top and bottom of page. But shouldnt placing it at bottom alone be enough? Coz only when user has read the page he will think of sharing it? Whats ur take?