{"id":13012,"date":"2016-06-24T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shareaholic.com\/?p=13012"},"modified":"2017-10-02T15:57:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T19:57:23","slug":"how-to-brand-your-blogs-social-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/how-to-brand-your-blogs-social-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Brand Your Site&#8217;s Social Shares with Shareaholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shareaholic-quick-tip-brand-your-shares.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shareaholic-quick-tip-brand-your-shares.png\" alt=\"shareaholic-quick-tip-brand-your-shares\" width=\"576\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shareaholic-quick-tip-brand-your-shares.png 720w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shareaholic-quick-tip-brand-your-shares-640x400.png 640w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shareaholic-quick-tip-brand-your-shares-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shareaholic-quick-tip-brand-your-shares-400x250.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Icons by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iconify.it\/\">Iconify.it<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This tip may seem like an unnecessary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/blog-housekeeping\/\">piece of housekeeping<\/a>. &#8220;Branding my Tweets? Who has time for that?&#8221; But the results can be extremely helpful to growing your site, and it&#8217;s really easy to do.<\/p>\n<p>When your Twitter handle is highlighted in each of your Twitter shares, you will drive attention to your Twitter account and increase your following. Including your Twitter handle in your site&#8217;s social shares can help you gain new followers and brand recognition whenever a post is shared &#8212; a passive and easy way to build your site&#8217;s audience.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re using <a href=\"https:\/\/shareaholic.com\/publishers\/sharing\">Share Buttons<\/a> in the Shareaholic <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/shareaholic\/\">WordPress<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/drupal.org\/project\/shareaholic\">Drupal<\/a> plugin, simply go into your settings and scroll down to Share Buttons General Settings. There, you can edit your Twitter shares to point to your Twitter handle and include any message that you want. For example, you can make all Twitter shares say &#8220;by @Twitterhandle&#8221; vs. &#8220;via @Twitterhandle&#8221; depending on your preference. If you&#8217;re not using these plugins, follow <a href=\"http:\/\/support.shareaholic.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/200470956-Customizing-Your-Twitter-Share-Template\">these instructions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Shareaholic-Share-Buttons-General-Settings.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15501\" title=\"Shareaholic Share Buttons General Settings\" alt=\"Shareaholic Share Buttons General Settings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Shareaholic-Share-Buttons-General-Settings.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Shareaholic-Share-Buttons-General-Settings.png 631w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Shareaholic-Share-Buttons-General-Settings-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Shareaholic-Share-Buttons-General-Settings-400x192.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t hesitate &#8211; make sure to brand your social shares and grow your Twitter following with this simple step. You could be missing out on engaging with some amazing new followers!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Like \u201cQuick Tips\u201d like this? Stay tuned for more. Better yet, subscribe to Shareaholic Blog updates so you never miss a post from us.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icons by\u00a0Iconify.it This tip may seem like an unnecessary piece of housekeeping. &#8220;Branding my Tweets? Who has time for that?&#8221; But the results can be&hellip;&nbsp;<br \/><a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/how-to-brand-your-blogs-social-shares\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":21127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[606,545],"tags":[295,390,143,510,506,408,530,796,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}