If the number of shares was displayed adjacent to the share buttons, would it result in a "herd instinct" and encourage more readers to share?
I think so. That herd instinct thing is very very real. I see it a lot on facebook. Especially with the 'likes.' If I say something funny and two people hit 'like,' it's common that several more will follow.
Of course the negative is if no one has shared something then people may think the thing isn't worth sharing.
We used to display the number of shares next to the buttons, actually. However, it slowed down the load time of the page considerably, and after extensive testing, we found that the number of shares was not significantly higher with the numbers showing than without.
In general, this technique is only effective with articles that already have shares in the hundreds and thousands, which is only the case for an extremely small percentage of existing Hubs since most Hub traffic is from Google, not social media. In the end, we decided the faster loading time would be of a much broader benefit to more Hubbers.
That's interesting that page load times were slower. Is that because the social networking sites have to be interrogated on the fly to get data on shares? If the numbers were held locally and incremented each time a share was made, presumably this wouldn't affect load times. Of course the numbers then wouldn't reflect unshares made directly on the social sites or secondary shares of original shares.
Anyway you've done the testing Christy and it wasn't worthwhile, so it's back to the drawing board for more brainwaves!
Yes, the buttons made a call to each network every time the page was loaded.
by Mary Hyatt 11 years ago
My feed is full of "shares" by a Hubber. HP recommends we do not share our own Hubs too frequently, why can't that apply to multiple sharings by the same Hubber for other Hubs. I don't think they can possibly read all those Hubs, I think it's done for other reasons.
by L.M. Hosler 8 years ago
The share buttons seem to be missing from hubs. Anyone else having this problem?
by K Kiss 9 years ago
A few weeks or maybe a month or two ago I recall being able to see the number of facebook, twitter, pinterest shares etc next to my hubs. Now the social media buttons have changed and I can only see the social media share buttons but not the number of times my hubs have been shared. Is there any...
by OSBERT JOEL C 9 years ago
New superb share buttons replaces the old share buttons. These include share buttons of facebook, google plus, twitter, pinterest and hubpages.
by ProCW 15 years ago
The Share, Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down buttons on all the hubs (at least from my end) aren't displaying correctly in Firefox or IE. Also checked on another computer.What's up? ProCW
by Jayne Lancer 8 years ago
Nine months ago a number of Hubbers noticed that share buttons were not visible when using a screen resolution of less than 1100 pixels wide, or when zoomed in on higher screen resolutions (due to poor eyesight or whatever). The reasoning behind this, according to staff, was that only 5.9% of our...
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