What’s the point?īut let’s say that the same post results in a few press mentions, tons of traffic and a flood of new customers. That said, shares don’t mean much if they don’t have an impact on your business.įor example, let’s say you have a post that results in thousands of shares but no long-term engagement, no new followers and no sales. Sure, we want people to share our content. Look no further than celebrity Tweets that get shared around or brand Tweets that go viral. After all, how many shares a post gets isn’t exactly a measure of its quality. Some critics consider social media shares to be a vanity metric, though.Īnd those critics aren’t totally wrong. Perhaps that’s why 48% of social marketers use shares as a way to measure the success of their campaigns. It’s no secret that interactions related to engagement (e.g., shares, “likes” and comments) are among the most important metrics to track. Why do you need to track social shares in the first place?īefore we get into the nitty-gritty, let’s briefly break down why social shares matter. That’s why we’ve put together a list of seven low-hanging strategies you can roll out ASAP to encourage more shares. If you feel like there aren’t enough eyes on your content, we hear you. However, getting social media shares is easier said than done when your audience is bombarded with so much content across so many platforms these days.

That’s because shares directly signal which messages, campaigns and images engage your audience the most.Īnd on the flip side, a lack of shares is often a sign of a lackluster content strategy. We are happy about contributions via pull requests or patches on Github, but please open issues on Drupal.Social media shares are a valuable currency for brands today. The Drupal 8 version is mirror to the github repository at.

Flexible: As every plugin can have its own context parameters, all parameters supported by a social share link provider can be configured.

Privacy enabled: Plugins do not load external javascript assets.

The module comes with a quite simple javascript that takes care of opening the sharing URLs in a suiting modal window only.

Simple: Use simple sharing URLs and avoid extra javascript if necessary.

There are no nice icons out of the box as it is expected for the theme to provide this.

Ease customization, thus every plugin has a template so the markup can be easily controlled.

While extension modules may add additional social share plugins, the module comes with default plugins focusing on the following: It provides a social share link plugin type and allows the configuration of the plugins via a block or a field type, which allows editors to select desired social media links. The Drupal 8 version (8.x-2.x) is a completely new version of the module. While not a dependency, if the shorten module is installed, urls being shared will first be shortened. 20, 2013ħ.x-2.0 is released! The 1.x branch is now EOL, and I will no longer be providing updates for the D6 version (based on usage statistics this should not surprise anyone).

This facilitates styling the links as icons, or whatever best suits the site. Links are added to all nodes of the types configured to allow it, and appear with a class name based on the social network being shared to. You can select what networks you want available between the Social Share-tab on the content type settings and - if enabled - on the block-settings page.

Links for these social networks are included:ĭelicious, Digg, Facebook, Google Plus, Hyves, LinkedIn, MSN Live, Myspace, Orkut, Pinterest, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Twitter, YahooĪdditionally, it provides a GUI interface to add new network share links, and control the display order of available links. Social Share adds very simple, configurable social network share links to nodes Drupal 7 version

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