Social Media Links (Placement/Usefullness)

I have decided to implement the most common social media plugins into my website design. These being FB, Twitter, Google & LinkedIN.

I am coming to you all because I am wondering what types of placement you have used and which scenarios you deem most useful. I own a web hosting company and have implemented the links on my homepage, plan pages, organization information pages, announcements and knowledge-base articles. I have added them to my header, but did think about placing them in the footer. Please check out placement (www.option9.com) and let me know what your thoughts are.

As well: For each page the plugins are on should I use my homepage as the href source or the current page url? Which would be better?

As well: For each page the plugins are on should I use my homepage as the href source or the current page url? Which would be better?

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Why would people looking at one URL want to "recommend" a different URL??

chrishirst said:

Why would people looking at one URL want to "recommend" a different URL??

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Good point, but I would still leave the announcements and articles sections to use the current page's url, however for my plan pages/company info pages/domain page it just seems like the homepage would suffice.

The WHOLE point of promotion and marketing is to get traffic direct to the products or service you are promoting, so they can sign up, purchase or otherwise convert WITHOUT having to think about it. Why would you want to dump visitors on the root URL then hope they go in the right direction??

If you want them to read about the company .. send them to the "about us" document.
If you want them to find the latest 'news' ... send them to the 'news' document.
and so on.

Very true. I'll keep the data sources to the current page url.

Nullified said:

Very true. I'll keep the data sources to the current page url.

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A good move to do so.