Hello everyone,
I’m currently using the sharetribe GO version and have a question regarding the social media sharing buttons in the listings (See below). What does the Like button do excatly? When you click on it, it will simply add a number next to it. How useful is it for the listings?
Thank you!
Hey @Tdiallo!
This button is a Facebook sharing button. If a visitor clicks that “Like” button, it records it in their Facebook profile account and adds one like to the page, from Facebook’s perspective.
It helps if visitors want to share the page with their Facebook network. Facebook, and some search engines, use that information to promote content in users’ feeds and search results.
Does it answer your question?
Hello,
Thank you for the response, but it’s still a little unclear. Let’s take a real life example. If i visit a listing where a Volvo car is for sale, and i click the Like button. It will add 1 like to the page, which is ok. But you mentioned facebook records it to your profile account, however when i click the like button, i don’t see anything under my FB account. I don’t receive any notification from facebook either. So can you please explain where in my account and how it saves it? How does the visitor share the page with their FB network since no one receives a notification. Or is it something that doesn’t happen live?
Thanks again, just trying to understand better so i can explain to anyone who has a question.
Cheers!
Good question! I’m actually not entirely sure, and I’m not using Facebook myself.
According to Facebook’s documentation, a click on that Like button/widget “log this like on Facebook”. From other sources online, Wikipedia for example, it’s explained that “Once clicked by a user, the designated content appears in the News Feeds of that user’s friends, and the button also displays the number of other users who have liked the content, including a full or partial list of those users.”. I understand that Facebook uses this also for their ad-related tracking.
I’m not exactly sure how that is visualized or found in a user’s Facebook profile, though.
Thanks again! Will have to test it for some time and see what really happens.