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Your point is not entirely accurate though. The likes get displayed and used on Facebook which can help and your post to the top of other people's feeds. I don
by BinaryIdiot 9y ago
Your point is not entirely accurate though. The likes get displayed and used on Facebook which can help and your post to the top of other people's feeds.
I don't like them either but you'd be crazy by not integrating it on a website that you're trying to funnel organic, social traffic to.
- exodust 9y agoIt's not the website's job to host Facebook-exclusive functionality. By all means have the basic FB share link, as found on every Youtube video, along with other social media services. But the actual Facebook widget is not what should be installed on websites, and FB should kill it dead. Sounds like you need a browser extension to handle "liking" the current page you're on. Not all websites have the Like button, so it makes no sense to assume a website Like button is "plan A" in any social traffic strategy. Further more, websites have many pages. It's impractical to install a Like button for every discrete piece of content everywhere on the site, and everywhere on the Internet. Facebook Like buttons DO NOT belong on every web page of every site on the Internet, and the widget should go the way of Flash. (I'd sooner keep Flash than FB javascript).
- BinaryIdiot 9y agoI get you but that’s just idealistic. Today you have to do it to help your social engagement. Every opportunity you can get to gain more likes you have to take to get your social postings to rank higher.
- exodust 9y agoI'm sure spammers apply same logic.