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Facebook Like Button vs Like Box
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We want to add the Facebook Like and Google Plus One functionality to our website but had a question. Is it better for SEO and usability to use a global Facebook Like Button for people to Like the home page of our website or a Facebook Like Box to Like our Facebook page from our website? I know that we can specify the URL in the Like Button but I wanted to get some feedback. Thanks!
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Thank you very much Sida. We are going to use the Facebook Like button in the header of all of the pages and then have it update Likes on our Facebook page. We will have a second Facebook Like button in our blog and that will Like the actual page itself. Appreciate the feedback and suggestion.
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They are two separate things and I would recommend to have both if you can, as Like button is get people to share your home page with their friends and Like Box is to get them to join your Facebook page which is important have more followers for retention and branding purposes. From SEO point, it is important if people share your page but you also need to get people to share your future posts which is also important and to do this you need to make sure you grow your followers on Like Page. Like box on home page would be good way to get more followers.
I hope that helps
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