Widget Related Topics 
Adam Sherk
MAY 14, 2013
Widgets and badges. Utilizing various forms of widgets and badges is a tactic more often used by other types of businesses, but it is applicable to publishers too. But beyond the SEO implications, widgets offer a way to help promote new and featured content so there is value in the right situation.
Adam Sherk
APRIL 26, 2010
The Huffington Post The Huffington Post has added a “Hot on Facebook” module to its home page and in a sidebar on posts: I like this and think it will do a good job of encouraging user clicks, similar to the Digg widget that has worked well on news sites. Seeing that stories have been liked thousands of times certainly caught my interest.
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Adam Sherk
OCTOBER 15, 2010
SocialTwist examined content shared with its Tell-a-Friend widget from August 2009 to July 2010. According to the Social Media Sharing Trends 2010 report from SocialTwist, Facebook dominates content sharing among social media sites but links shared on Twitter have a much higher click-through rate. clicks vs. only 2.87
Adam Sherk
OCTOBER 26, 2011
Pages also allow for more functionality like special widgets and custom tabs. One advantage of Facebook Pages is they allow journalists to keep their personal profiles completely personal, which is attractive to those who like to maintain a firm boundary between their work and home lives.
Adam Sherk
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
You have to show social-proof to your readers which can be in the form of a widget displaying “1267 people liked it&# or “900 people tweeted about it.&# There are plethora of widgets available that make it very easy to implement this functionality on a media site. Conclusion.
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