Social Media Links (Placement/Usefullness)

[Nullified]

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?

 

[Martee]

Well, in my eyes, you need to place it where people go to the most and you have done that. People generally tend to follow one of two paths when looking at a website. The F layout and the Z layout. Essentially, it just means people look at your page in a Z style, so from corner to corner, down to the bottom corner and to the other corner and likewise with the F, following the shape of the letter basically.

You hve yours in both two focal points and above your navigation so on a personal level, that is fine with me. For me, your footer is crowded enough as it is anyway so adding more in there would just make it worse and adding too many places of social medai sharing just screams 'LIKE ME PLEASE IM SO DESPERATE' so yeh..

But hey, thats just opinions.

 

[Nullified]

Nice to know about the Z and F page screening process. I never knew that or thought about it, so in the future when making developmental changes I'll be sure to keep that in mind. Thanks for the response; however opinionated it is, your ideas seem logical.

Do you have any thoughts on whether I should include the data source of my homepage no matter what page the visitor is seeing or should I keep it to http://<?php print $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] ?>