Tell-a-Friend button for your Home Page

Best Practice Guide for Tell-a-Friend button placement
Successful content sharing starts with good Tell-a-Friend button placement. By reading this series of posts, you can gather tips on placing your button on your Home Page, Ecommerce Product Page, Blog Post, and general content pages.

Why good button placement is important
You need more traffic, more users and more revenue, right?  Start getting more from your users and your content by placing your Tell-a-Friend button in places that will produce successful word of mouth marketing results.  In the first blog post of this series, we’ll discuss Tell-a-Friend button placement for your website’s Home Page.

Home Page button placement
Our usage statistics shows that if you make posting, bookmarking and sharing easy and accessible for your users, they will share and spread your content and help build your community, increase your traffic and produce more leads and sales.  We recommend that you always place a Tell-a-Friend button on your Home Page.  This will serve to promote your brand and introduce your overall products/services. The following illustrations are possible best practice locations for your Tell-a-Friend button on your Home Page. The idea is to be able to have Tell-a-Friend button positioned in such a way that it is not missed and at the same time not overly imposing on your site.

Home Page Button Placement

4 Responses to this post.

  1. Posted by Akshay S Dinesh on 04.05.09 at 9:47 am

    Are you sure about the placement in the middle of sidebar?

  2. Posted by taffer on 04.05.09 at 9:47 am

    Well, the exact placement of TAF in the sidebar would depend on the content of the sidebar and the purpose it serves. Whether it should be in the middle or beginning or end of the sidebar is a call which the web designer needs to take.

  3. Posted by Justin Marinos on 04.05.09 at 9:47 am

    Since you have the analytics, you should consider creating a share button similar to the digg square button, the 51×80px yahoo buzz button, etc. with the number of shares shown http://buzz.yahoo.com/buttons

  4. Posted by Alex Peter on 04.05.09 at 9:47 am

    It is great.Wonderful Idea

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