how to integrate your website with social media

Your Social Media & Website should work together as part of an overall digital marketing strategy - this is why integrating between your website and your social media channels is important as your website if often your gateway to your online presence.

There are a few important ways to help social media and website integration - in this article I list the must haves for any website.

All of these are easy to implement on your Squarespace or Shopify website.


Social Media Links

Add all your social links to your website - make sure you display them (as icons) in a few strategic places:

  • Navigation

  • Footer

  • Contact page

IMPORTANT: If you change your social handle don’t forget to update your website links! as otherwise links will be broken.

Social Links on Menu

Social links on contact page

Social Feeds

For better engagement and to encourage site visitors to follow your brand, add social feeds to your website.

  • Instagram Photos

  • Twitter News

  • Embedded YouTube / Vimeo

Instagram feed on home page

Instagram feed in footer

Like & Share

Help visitors share your content by adding social share links to your:

  • blog

  • products

  • galleries

Share post / recopies

 

Social Image

Control how your website link / content is viewed on Social Media by adding a dedicated Social Image to your website.

  • Check recommended sizing

  • Add your logo

  • Match image to page content

Social Text Preview

Control the text preview for your content on social media by updating site meta tags

IMPORTANT- the same meta tags are used by search engines to index your site so make sure they work for both!

Social Image + Text

 

Integration Tools & Codes:

Add codes to support social media campaigns & tools to help engagement

  • Facebook Pixel

  • Pinterest Save

  • Products on Instagram

Save to Pinterest

 
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