{"id":14166,"date":"2014-06-19T11:57:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.shareaholic.com\/?p=14166"},"modified":"2014-07-03T10:45:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T14:45:28","slug":"image-share-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/image-share-buttons\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Shareable Images (share buttons for images)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, we released our <a title=\"Social Media Traffic Report for October 2013\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/social-media-traffic-trends-04-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">Social Media Traffic Report<\/a>, which\u00a0noted Pinterest&#8217;s growing importance as a source of referral traffic for sites.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest surprise? Pinterest drives more traffic to sites than\u00a0Twitter, LinkedIn, and Reddit combined!<\/p>\n<p>Realizing there is a massive opportunity for sites to drive <em>even more<\/em> traffic from Pinterest, we built the perfect product for publishers to do just that.<\/p>\n<h3>Introducing Shareable Images<\/h3>\n<p>The latest addition to our suite of\u00a0<a title=\"Shareaholic's Related Content, Share Buttons and Analytics tools\" href=\"https:\/\/shareaholic.com\/publishers\" target=\"_blank\">Shareaholic Publisher Tools<\/a>\u00a0allows site owners to automagically add share buttons to their images. Here\u2019s a snapshot of how it would look:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14192 aligncenter\" alt=\"Shareable Images, image share buttons\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/shareable-images2.png\" width=\"560\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/shareable-images2.png 800w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/shareable-images2-543x400.png 543w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/shareable-images2-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/shareable-images2-768x565.png 768w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/shareable-images2-400x295.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Also, if you mouse over the above image, you will notice a nifty &#8220;Pin It Button&#8221; (in the upper-left corner) is now available for you to share the image straight to Pinterest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Essentially, this new feature will\u00a0allow visitors to seamlessly share images (and the accompanying stories) they like if the site they are visiting is powered by Shareaholic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One of our goals at Shareaholic is to make content more shareable\u00a0across the Social and Visual Web.<\/p>\n<div><em>Here are three reasons why you should be excited:\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>This is now available to our network of 300k publishers who reach more than 400mm people monthly.<\/strong>\u00a0So even if you&#8217;re not a site owner and want to share images easier, your favorite blog might use our tools with this fun feature.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It&#8217;s completely <em>free<\/em>.<\/strong> We want to empower sites to take full advantage of the Social and Visual Web, so we decided against charging exorbitant fees (or any fees for that matter).<\/li>\n<li><strong>We\u2019re starting with Pinterest (for obvious reasons).\u00a0<\/strong>We know the power of Pinterest, and want to help publishers get more traffic from the growing social platform. Shortly,\u00a0will add other visual services such as WeHeartIt, Twitter (which now shows images in feeds), etc.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p>Shareable Images is the <em>simplest<\/em> solution for site owners who want to make their content more shareable.\u00a0Oh, and enabling Shareable Images takes less than 30 seconds. It&#8217;s as easy as checking a box and clicking save.<\/p>\n<p>If this has convinced you to use Shareaholic tools, <a href=\"https:\/\/shareaholic.com\/publishers\" target=\"_blank\">get &#8217;em here<\/a>\u00a0and read the following instructions to learn how to opt-in and enable Shareable Images. If you already use Shareaholic tools, follow these five steps and watch the traffic roll in:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/shareaholic.com\/login\" target=\"_blank\">Sign into<\/a> your account.<\/li>\n<li>Go ahead and click &#8220;Edit&#8221; to access your account settings (or click <a href=\"https:\/\/shareaholic.com\/account\/profile\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Open up the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/shareaholic.com\/publisher_tools\" target=\"_blank\">Site Tools<\/a>&#8221; section.<\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-14183\" alt=\"setting Shareable Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/user-flow-for-setting-Shareable-Images1.png\" width=\"64\" height=\"19\" \/>, which will take you to the &#8220;Edit Settings&#8221; page.<\/li>\n<li>Next, open the &#8220;Sharing&#8221; tab and click the box to check and enable Shareable Images<\/li>\n<li>Finally, scroll down to hit &#8220;Save Settings,&#8221; and <em>voila<\/em>!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-19178\" title=\"Enabling Shareable Images\" alt=\"Enabling Shareable Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Enabling-Shareable-Images.png\" width=\"560\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Enabling-Shareable-Images-465x400.png 465w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Enabling-Shareable-Images-300x258.png 300w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Enabling-Shareable-Images-349x300.png 349w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Simple, right?<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the new feature? Tweet us <a title=\"Shareaholic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/shareaholic\" target=\"_blank\">@Shareaholic<\/a>\u00a0or leave a comment on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shareaholic\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>. For more feature details, visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/support.shareaholic.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/200918036-Shareable-Images-share-buttons-for-images-\" target=\"_blank\">knowledge base<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/shareaholic-email-signup\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Shareaholic Email Signup\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/shareaholic-newsletter-cta.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong>Note from the Editor (July 1st, 2014):<\/strong>\u00a0Since the initial launch of Shareable Images, we&#8217;ve made a number of important improvements. Now that the feature is available to all Shareaholic users, we want to say a big &#8220;THANKS!&#8221; to our early innovators. Leave a comment if you have suggestions about how we can build better products for you. If you haven&#8217;t tried Shareable Images yet, do check it out!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, we released our Social Media Traffic Report, which\u00a0noted Pinterest&#8217;s growing importance as a source of referral traffic for sites. The biggest surprise? 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