Tips for Choosing the Right Social Media Icons for Your Site
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Choosing the right social media icons for your site is important. This is the way you draw attention to your different accounts. Sure people may find you on the different sites, but it’s a lot easier if you help them out by including these icons somewhere on your site.There are literally thousands of different icons you can use so it’s important to choose the one that fits your site the best. This will depend on the site you have, what you use it for, and what’s important for you.
A lot of business owners pay close attention to branding their business. They do this with ever aspect of their business and that includes social media sites. When everything matches the people that see them online will know it’s them whenever they see the header, background, or images.
For other websites branding isn’t important or as important and so they have the ability to choose icons that may not necessarily match their site. Having these icons stand out may be more important and they may feel if they match they’ll blend in to much and could be missed.
The best thing to do when you’re trying to choose the right social media icons is to search for them using Google Images. There are hundreds of websites that offer free icons you can use or you can get ideas from them so you can make your own. Another option is to look at websites that are similar to yours or that are visited by your target market.
No matter what type of icon you choose to place on your site, you’ll find you have so many to choose from, that the hard part may be making the decision. The good thing is you don’t necessarily have to keep the same ones. You can use one and if you get bored or you don’t feel it’s working, you have the ability to change to a different one. You can also have them made to fit your needs and wants.
Social media icons are important when you want to drive traffic to your accounts. Choosing the wrong icons will decrease your chances of increasing your followship and that’s not a good thing when you want to use social media to grow your business and increase the knowledge your followers have when it comes to what you offer.
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Dawn Pigoni, IVAA Member
