Add social sharing links to your site
Goal: The aim is to incorporate social sharing links into your website.
Ideal Outcome: Visitors to your website will effortlessly share your content across their social channels.
Prerequisites or requirements: Sumo must be installed on your website.
Importance: Social sharing links facilitate user engagement and promote content sharing. Configuring them for both desktop and mobile devices is crucial to ensure accessibility.
Location: Configuration is carried out on Sumo and within WordPress.
Timing: Initially, for your current website and subsequently for any new sites.
Executors: You, or the individual responsible for website management.
Environment setup:
Ensure access to your company’s social media accounts.
Configure social sharing links on your website:
For demonstration purposes, we’ll utilize our dummy website, www.asiteaboutemojis.com.
- Log in to Sumo using the badge in the top right corner of your homepage or click on “My Tools” if already logged in.
- In the left sidebar of Sumo, navigate to Social ⇒ Share.
- Click “Activate now” to enable the sharing option.
- Begin by configuring the basic settings.
- Click on “Settings” to choose the services to display. Recommended options include Facebook, Twitter, and Email, but select those relevant to your industry. Limit selections to three services.
- Choose the “Smart” option for Sumo to arrange the share buttons.
- Other settings can be adjusted later; for now, maintain default settings.
- Now, configure the layout.
- Click on “Layout” at the top of the screen.
- Utilize Sumo’s default layout for both desktop and mobile unless specific customization is necessary.
- Optionally, configure mobile sharing links by clicking on “Mobile Optimized” and enabling desired services.
- Proceed to “Display Rules” to specify where social sharing links should not appear on your website.
- Compile a list of pages where social sharing links should be excluded, such as Terms & Conditions or Privacy Policy pages.
- Utilize the “Don’t Show Rules” section to exclude specific pages, subdomains, subfolders, or homepage.
- Exercise caution with broad exclusion options to avoid unintended page exclusions.
- Lastly, after configuring social sharing links, connect selected services by logging in.
- Click on “Services” to link your social accounts.
- Connect to Facebook, ensuring access to the specific company page only.
- Input your company’s Twitter handle and click “Save” to finalize.
- With social sharing links configured, proudly display them on your website and monitor shares.