ShareThis provides users with a simple and easy way to implement sharing to any site and share via email and all of the popular social media channels including Twitter and Facebook. We have compiled some of the best practices to provide you with a robust sharing experience.
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The ShareThis button can be placed anywhere on your page to enable you to share anything with anyone. Here are a few examples of where you can place the button to achieve maximum results.
A default option of placing the ShareThis button at the bottom of each blog post makes sharing information from sites created with popular blog platforms like WordPress, TypePad, or Blogger quick and easy. Site audiences can quickly and easily share the items without any additional scrolling or searching for the sharing tool.
Typically you will see the ShareThis button placed at the top of an article on a news website. This generally fits in with the site's look and feel due to the fact that news sites generally have a few options at the top of each story.
While it is possible to place the ShareThis widget in the sidebar of your site it is not recommended. Since the nature of ShareThis is to allow your content to be shared, just sharing the homepage will not proved the long tail type traffic that your site will need.
Sometimes you want to offer users visiting your site more than one sharing service on the page, but still take advantage of the ShareThis Analytics. Now, you are able to do this using the Sharing Bar option. As an example, below indicates how a user can post directly to Facebook and Twitter as well as have access to all the other sharing options ShareThis offers.
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The Sharing Bar will allow you to customize the best tools for the audience visiting your site. You can still use the ShareThis button in conjunction with the Sharing Bar option. This gives your audience the best of both worlds.
For more information about using this option, please email support@sharethis.com
Another new feature is the option to have the ShareThis widget automatically launch when a visitor to your site hovers their mouse over the ShareThis button. This will increase completed shares of your content.
