May 12
I know every webmaster likes to put those social bookmarking buttons on his sites. Some overdo it, others make it work and get like 200 tweets and 500 facebook shares. I honestly haven’t cracked that shell yet, I don’t know how to make something that popular. What I do know on the other hand, is that “Like” works better than facebook share.
It looks like this:
and you can get it from the Facebook developer pages here. Customize it the way you want it and voila! It is ready to get slapped in your pages.
I love this little piece of code for many reasons.
- It is minimal, and it fits every website. You cannot possibly argue with your designer about integrating this widget. I mean, come on. Even the background is transparent.
- It shows pictures of people’s friends. I can’t even begin to talk about how awesome that is. Instead of those ugly boxes for facebook pages that show a bunch of strangers, this widget shows the users friends faces. People just want to click it.
- It shows a count of people who liked this. Crowd mentality here, if people see that 100 others liked it, they will like it too.
- The code geolocates to the user’s native language setting on facebook. Yea, awesome.
- Facebook has made the “Like” feature a reflex to all casual facebook users. Put the code in the right position and visitors will like it on autopilot.
- It actually brings traffic.
- Sneezers (see Seth Godin) who like your page are going to bring their pack. And a pack’s interests are usually common amongst its members.
- It is a one click deal. Even though Facebook share is optimized to the heavens for fast sharing of internet goodyness, it is still 2-3 clicks too long. This little baby is ONE CLICK. ONE.
Seriously, just try it.
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