Posts Tagged ‘Share Bar’

New Report: More Tweets, More Traffic

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Websites with a Tweet button receive seven times as many links as those that do not, according to a study BrightEdge released in September. With countless blogs and agencies dedicated to SEO, it’s important to remember that the main tenet of making a findable website is pretty simple:

Get people to link to it on other findable websites–like, say, social networks.

According to BrightEdge, the most successful online businesses get this point. A little over 50 percent of the top 10,000 websites have some sort of Twitter or Facebook presence on their websites, and this number is growing month over month. However, Twitter and Facebook are not alone in this field. Google+ posted a greater growth in adoption for the past month than the other networks combined – all this even before releasing the Google+ API.

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Gigya Now Supports Google’s +1 Button

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
We are proud to announce full support for Google’s +1 button beginning Monday, June 6th.  As the leader in making sites social, we are committed to always offering the latest social technologies in the ever-changing social landscape. Gigya clients now have the option to add the Google +1 button to their website via the Gigya Share Bar.

Background on +1
Google’s +1 button is similar to Facebook’s “Like” button in that it enables users to give a stamp of approval on site content with a single click. Significantly, Google is taking into account the +1 button within its search algorithm. This means that the more users click +1 on your site, the more likely your content will be to show up in search results.

Integrating the +1 Button
With Gigya’s Share Plugin, adding Google’s +1 button to any website is as easy as checking a box. Once the button is integrated, users will be able to click +1 to recommend products, articles, videos or other content to friends. To learn more about how to integrate Google’s new +1 functionality, contact a Gigya representative today by emailing us at support@gigya.com, or give us a call at 650-353-7230.