{"id":44198,"date":"2020-07-01T06:59:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T06:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glassmountains.co.uk\/?p=44198"},"modified":"2020-07-01T06:59:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T06:59:28","slug":"wordpress-social-media-from-last-weeks-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glassmountains.co.uk\/campfire\/wordpress-social-media-from-last-weeks-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress\/social media from last week’s talk"},"content":{"rendered":"
In the heady excitement of chatting to Helen Reynolds about Social Media last week<\/a> I clean forgot to mention a couple of points about social media and WordPress, so I think I’ll rattle those off now\u2026.<\/p>\n It used to be the case that adding social media widgets (so that you can show your twitter feed on your website etc) were pretty much default on any<\/em> website (indeed, we have it on our website footer, but it won’t be there shortly).<\/p>\n However, I would raise a couple of points before you add such widgets to your website.<\/p>\nSocial Media Widgets<\/h2>\n
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\nSome people add these widgets to their site thinking that this will trick Google into believing that, because you update (say) Twitter regularly, then this means your website is updated regularly – sadly this is not the case.<\/li>\n
\nThe direction of travel for WordPress<\/a> websites will be leaner & faster; in light of this, such social media widgets may well not make the grade.<\/li>\n
\nThink of it from another perspective: website visitors have short attention spans, we all know that, they quickly scan web pages trying to gauge the element of risk in reading your content i.e. what is the likelihood that it will actually solve their question? If a quick scan of your page makes them optimistic enough – then you’ve passed the first test. The more dead content which their eye has to scan to gauge that risk, the harder you are making it for your true content & messaging to shine through and win the day.<\/li>\n
\nThe use of social media widgets can also influence the privacy profile of your website. Which then may well impact the privacy policy you create, and whether you need a cookie opt-in pop-up banner etc.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nSocial Media Sharing Buttons<\/h2>\n