You have probably seen many websites with social media sharing icons, the premise being that the user clicks an icon which in turn displays a window containing information about the page (or page contents) which they can easily share on social media. Adding social media sharing to your website not only provides a useful tool for your visitors, but can provide brand and product exposure.

Imagine a visitor to your website views something that interests them. This user has a modest 100 followers on Twitter for example. They share the item on Twitter which is seen by 100 people. The people following your user will likely have similar interests, so let’s say that 5 out of the 100 people share this on their own Twitter accounts. If these users also have a modest 100 followers, that’s now 600 people who have viewed the item. If just a few percent out of those 600…

You get the point, social media yields massive power in promotion.

But how do I add social sharing to my website?

The most popular method is through a social sharing plugin. You install the plugin, choose which platforms to support, add a piece of code to your website and voila.

These plugin also have drawbacks, the design often does not match your website design, there may be security implications of using a third party system and if they are not coded well, could slow down your website.

Our preferred method is through code, we have developed our own module that adds social sharing to your website quickly and easily. Just let us know which platforms you would like to support and we’ll do the rest. Rest assured that our code is secure and super quick.

Our module is so awesome that we also released it on to a WordPress plugin we created for the recruitment industry. This adds easy social sharing to job pages, providing visibility to each vacancy being advertised.

How much is our social sharing?

Our module makes adding social sharing to a website quick and simple, as part of a website design and development project there will be no additional cost to add social sharing to your website.

Adding our social sharing to an existing website shouldn’t cost more than £120 one off fee, adding a third party plugin yourself will range from free to £200 depending on the plugin used. Some third party plugins also incur a monthly fee so be keep a look out for that.