Badges Of Honour
If you didn’t do this when you originally set up your Facebook Page and Twitter accounts, you should do this now!
Your homepage is not only the landing area for new traffic in many cases, but it can also be used to exhibit the other platforms where you and your company are also available. For example, the popularity of mobile phones with internet access is rapidly growing, and this is something that you, as a responsible and culturally aware web master can capitalize on for your own gain.
The vast majority of people using their phones to access the internet is rapidly expanding, as visitors can now ‘follow’ the progress and updates of their favourite websites on their phones via Twitter and Facebook accounts. You can see an example of this on the website http://www.carpbaitsonline.co.uk/ on the far right of the homepage.
Also notice that Carp Baits Online also have a Twitter feed beneath the buttons which provides the most recent Tweets from the site. This is very easy to set up too, and instructions on how to do this can be found on the Twitter website in the ‘Help’ section.
To advertise your Twitter and Facebook accounts is actually very simple, and if your website design is identical on each page, there’s no reason why you can’t have the buttons throughout, so that you’re covering the visitors who may arrive on your site via another entrance as opposed to the homepage. There’s a variety of buttons available online, which can be found via a Google Images search, before being resized to fit the aesthetics of your page and linked directly to either your Facebook Page or your Twitter profile.
Even if a visitor does not choose to follow your updates and progress on either platform immediately, the mere presence of the buttons shows that your website is modern and in sync with the latest online networking sites.