The power of social media plug-ins in marketing

The importance of social media plug-ins have gone beyond sharing and fun on the internet. It has become so important that every webmasters have to use it on their websites or clients websites. You must have seen things like these;  

                                        

And you wonder why you find it on most websites. Apart from its fun and connecting behavior, it goes a long way to affect internet marketing today. How does this work for internet marketing?

Researches have shown that thousands and even millions of people stay on social media sites 24 hrs of the day and these people do not just use the social media sites, they visit other websites by searching directories and search engines for other interests all at the same time. And when they do this, they see plug-ins on websites and if they like the website or information on the web page, they share with these plug-ins. By doing this, the shared websites appears on the wall of social medias where thousands see it and share with others too. And this spreads your message like a virus through the internet.

It works out this way, the more people like or share your website, the more potential clients you get. You might be spending money on advertising, which is not a bad thing, but social media plug-ins can do 50% of advertising for you.

Examples of these powerful social media plug-ins are; the facebook like button, tweet buttons and now the google +1 button is here. It is advisable to have at least one on your website and then you will see how useful and powerful they are.