Social Media Signals with AddThis?

[Michael-Goode]

Good day guys,

Just a quick question. By having the AddThis sharing tool to share content such as blogs, does it still send the same social signals to Google as you would get by having the official Facebook/Twitter plug-ins?

Regards

[JamesNorquay]

Hi,

Add this button will provide the same basic elements as a direct share button, that been said AddThis has run into some trouble in the past with hidden links via the share buttons, a good post on this here: http://phill.co/seo/dont-use-the-addthis-social-sharing-toolbar-its-bad-for-seo

I do not know if they currently still do this, personally I use the sharing is Sexy buttons and also some direct ones on most of my sites.

Hope this helps.

[Michael-Goode]

Hi James,

Thank you very much for that article you linked to, I didn't even notice that it was actually doing that. What we did now is just get rid of that orange "share" button as a whole, and only keep the Twitter/FB and G+ ones (that don't link back to AddThis).

Thanks for your help!