Share buttons or Follow buttons
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I have added share buttons to the thankyou page of our site and receive 2 or 3 shares on average per day back to our homepage from this via twitter, facebook, google+ and linkedin. We have done this for the past couple of months.
Im not too sure what benefits i may get out of this other than a few clickbacks. Do i gain links back or do they carry little value?
Am i better to replace these share buttons with follow buttons to our facebook and twitter pages?
thanks
Andy
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Hey Andy,
Good question. To answer we need to consider your intent for having a share or follow button. Shares helps attract new users, follow helps retain previous visitors.
Do you have a site that is likely to get repeat visitors?
You also mentioned the share button is on the thank you page. It's highly likely this is accessed by posting some type of form, so it could be tricky for others to see what the original sharer saw.
I'd use the thank you page to retain visitors with follow buttons and add share buttons to useful content to attract new users.
As far as the value of the links of shares goes, you get little value from Twitter & Facebook. However it's fair to say in the not to distant future social signals from Google Plus will play a significant factor in SEO rankings.
Hope that helps.
Iain - Reload Media
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