: Social media integration solutions Another question someone posted got me thinking, what are the social media integration solutions that everyone uses? The most common solutions I've come across

@Caterina187

Note about Facebook share buttons, you can control the link text that will appear on facebook when people share your content. To make facebook read your guidelines from your website you need to use several tags.

Facebook describe their tags on the OpenGraph Protocol page. If you believe that facebook links are good for SEO, you might want to optimize the anchor texts. Otherwise it is just generally good to control what text friends of your users see when your content is shared.

Regarding the original question, I am still trying to find a solution that will get added within a noindex,nofollow iframe to my pages. Since by using SexyBookmarks I found in Google Webmaster Tools that the most relevant words to my blog posts are "png", "sexybookmarks", etc... and it just feels very wrong to see that in there.

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@Murphy175

We used to use AddThis on sites, and we liked the fact that it was easy to implement and offered everything (a couple of years back the market was more fragmented, before Facebook and Twitter dominated).

However, the stats were very disappointing, and we put this down to the fact that people were less likely to interact with a widget that they didn't instantly recognise as linking directly to their preferred social widget.

We therefore moved to dedicated buttons (specifically for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr). The usage was several orders of magnitude higher.

In terms of ease of use, most social networking sites make it incredibly easy to add these buttons to sites, so the advantages of services like AddThis are reduced.

I agree, some of the bars that sit at the bottom of the screen are just irritating noise. Hopefully they will go away soon.

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