Social Media: Two important new buttons to add to your website

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My friend, Laura Click (@lauraclick)just posted a great blog about a couple of new buttons you should add to your website or blog to support the sharing of your content via social media:

1) Twitter – Make it easy for site visitors to follow you on Twitter right from your website. Twitter has updated their API to allow for this functionality. This is a no-brainer – now, people can follow you on Twitter without leaving your website to do so. Zing! The snippet of code can be grabbed here: https://twitter.com/about/resources/followbutton

2) +1 – Google’s +1 button seems synonymous with the Google Plus social network, but Google is also showing +1 results in its search engine. This is significant, as the votes your content receives on your site are likely to show up in search results in the future. Here’s one you can download for WordPress.

Laura explores both of these in greater detail on her blog – definitely take a few minutes to educate yourself, as well as explore other ways of adding this functionality to your site.

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Over seven years ago, Misty started MyStrategicMarketer.com and Strategic Marketing Solutions with a vision for helping independent professional grow profitable, sustainable business that gave them the opportunity to do the work they love while contributing meaningfully to the world. Her background in artist management and marketing uniquely-positioned her understand the gritty, everyday business-management issues that creative individuals struggle with and the blind spots that prevent them from making sound strategic decisions.

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