Increase followers on social media platforms through your site (like button, follow us, subscribe)

Your website may be used to promote your accounts on social media platforms. Social media sites are also important for promoting your site, especially since users spend a lot of time on them. Which means that there is a mutual benefit between the site and social media accounts. So, it may be important to link them together to get full benefit.

In this article, we will discuss how to increase followers on social media platforms by adding a Like, Follow Us, or Subscribe button, so that the user can subscribe to social media platforms directly through your site. Why link a website to your accounts on social media platforms? Linking the site to social media accounts may be a first step to start enhancing your content, gaining more visits and increasing your audience base, and now we find that most websites add it to every page or article to promote their content on different communication platforms.

Also, when users are converted to subscribe or like social media accounts, it will turn them into more loyal users, ensuring constant visits to your website, in addition to enhancing the social media accounts themselves in increasing users’ interaction with you, if you use them to promote some products or services. How to increase followers on social media platforms through your website. In some cases, you may want a way to get followers and subscriptions to social media accounts directly without leaving the site and directing visitors to social media accounts. In the following lines, I will show you the way to add a Like button to Facebook pages, follow Twitter accounts, and subscribe to YouTube channels.

How to add a subscribe button to your YouTube channel

Adding a subscribe button to your website helps you get subscriptions to your channel faster with one click instead of diverting visitors to the channel's home page and then subscribing. You can do this by installing and activating the Easy Subscribe Button Widget add-on, through the steps to install WordPress plugins. After that, go to the WordPress control panel, select the theme and click Customize, then scroll down and click on Widgets, select the place where you want to add the YouTube channel subscription button, then click on the blue + icon and search for YouTube to show you the option to add a YouTube subscribe button. You must obtain the identification code (ID) and you will find it in the link for the channel, which is highlighted in red in the image below: After that, you must customize the settings of the subscribe button from the text that appears, and also add the channel identification code, and click Publish at the top. Thus, the YouTube channel subscription button has been added to the site so that it appears in this way. Adding the Facebook page like button to the website You will first install the WP Like Button add-on. The WP Like button option will be added to the right menu of the WordPress control panel, click on it. Enter the settings for the addition, from the place where you want to show the button and enter the ID of the page, and then whether you want to show the option on the phone or not as well. You can change the size of the like button, and the language of the text that appears at the top of the like button.

After completing, click on Save Settings to save the changes. This will add the Like button to the Facebook page and it will look like this: How to add a Twitter account follow button. The method of adding a Twitter account follow button may be the easiest method compared to adding buttons on other social media platforms. This is done by going to Twitter’s publishing tools website tool. Then, copy the link to the account to which you want to bring followers. After that, paste the link into the designated field in the Twitter publisher tool, click on the side arrow, then select the button on the right side, and also select the shape of the button that you want. After that, you must copy the code by clicking on Copy Code. Now, go to the article or page on which you want to add a follow Twitter account button, select the appropriate place and click on the option to include components + and look for the custom HTML option and click on it. Paste the code in the designated place and click Publish and the follow button will look like this: Therefore, the method of linking the site to social media platforms is easy and does not require these lengthy steps. Sometimes there are templates that support adding icons for social media platforms and others that do not, and in this case you will have to search for one of the plugins that enables you to do that.

Both methods of linking the site to social media platforms through the template settings will be explained in the following lines. You can easily complete the linking process through the template settings if it supports this feature. You can head to your WordPress dashboard and click on Appearance < تخصيص ثم انقر على خيار قوائم بعد ذلك، اضغط على إنشاء قائمة جديدة ادخل اسم للقائمة، ومن ثم مرر لأسفل وحدد على خيار قائمة اجتماعية وانقر على التالي يتوجب عليك الآن، إضافة منصات التواصل الاجتماعي، بالنقر على خيار أضف عناصر وفي القائمة التي تظهر على اليسار اضغط على روابط مخصصة. ومن ثم قم بإضافة رابط حساب التواصل الاجتماعي الخاص بك وأدخل نص الرابط واضغط على أضف للقائمة .

Click on the Publish option at the top, and then you can repeat the process to add all other social media accounts. You will find that the icon for the added social media account has been added, and this depends on your template. In this Twenty Twenty template, the icon will appear on the home page and other pages of the site as follows: Linking the site to social media accounts using plugins. If your website template does not support customization settings or linking social media accounts, you have another option, which is to use one of the plugins that enables you to do that. Sometimes add-ons provide more customization options that are better than the template settings, and here are the necessary steps to do that: In this guide, the Social Icons Widget add-on will be used because it is easy to use and constantly updated with the many customization options it comes with, including modifying the icon, colors, transparency, frames, and downloading the icon in many formats.

You will install and activate the plugin on your site, then go to the WordPress control panel to start adding social media platform icons to the site, by clicking on Appearance. < تخصيص مرر لأسفل وانقر على ودجات حدد المكان الي تريد إضافة أيقونة حسابات التواصل الإجتماعي عليه، مع العلم أن هذه الخيارات تختلف من قالب والآخر انقر على أيقونة + في الجزء العلوي، وابحث عن الإضافة بإدخال اسمها Social Icons وانقر عليها لتُضاف الايقونات مباشرة إلى القائمة على اليمين بعد ذلك، بإمكانك إضافة الروابط لكل أيقونة إلى حِدّة، مع إمكانية إضافة ما لا يقل من 50 أيقونة مختلفة، كما تستطيع تخصيص والتعديل على ألوان الأيقونات وغيرها الكثير من الإعدادات المُميّزة. كما ترى في الصورة في الأسفل هناك حقل خاص لإضافة الرابط ومع خيار للتعديل وإزالة الايقونة. وبالنقر على أيقونة الإضافة في الأعلى ستتمكن من تغيير شكل أيقونات منصات التواصل الاجتماعي بالمفاضلة بين العديد من الخيارات.

After completing all the customization processes, click Publish at the top, so that the icons will appear as follows on the site: Adding social media icons in the manual way If you do not want to use the additions for fear of affecting the speed of the site or for any other reason, and at the same time your website does not support customization options, you can add social media platform icons through an easy manual method. Here is it: First, you must download the social media platform icons from the Internet, or you can design them yourself through Photoshop or one of the other tools. Then add a new post or page. Add the image that you want to place as an icon to the article or page, then add a link to the social media platform account, so that when clicking on the image, the visitor will be directed to the account.

Add text above the icon like Subscribe now, Follow us. After that, switch to the code editor by pressing ctrl+shift+alt +M in the component editor. If you are using the traditional WordPress editor, you must click on the text editor at the top of the screen, then copy the code for the icon and text added before. Head to the Home screen and tap Appearance < تخصيص انقر على ودجات حدد المكان الذي تريد إضافة الأيقونة إليه اضغط على أيقونة + وحدد على خيار كود قصير وألصق الكود في المكان المُخصص له بعد ذلك، سيتم إضافة الصورة التي حددتها ومع النص المدخل أخيرًا، لقد كانت هذه طريقة زيادة متابعين منصات التواصل من خلال ربط الموقع بها، لتتمكن من تعزيز المحتوى الخاص بك وتبدأ في زيادة حجم جمهورك كواحدة من ضمن استراتيجيات التسويق الإلكتروني لموقعك الخاص.