Share your Newsletters on Social Networks

Scope

In this tutorial, you will see how to insert a link in your email communications to share, for example, your newsletter on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. The link points to a static HTML, which is then automatically shared by the Contactlab platform.

Procedure

The following uses Facebook as an example. To insert the link in your emails, do the following:

  1. Sign in to the platform and navigate to the appropriate template, which was created previously with Pagebuilder.
  2. Locate the precise point in the HTML code where the sharing option should be inserted and position your mouse cursor there.
    Click the appropriate social network logo, such as Facebook, positioned towards the bottom of the page.
    The relevant code is inserted where you have placed your mouse

The HTML code insertion point and the social network logos

The HTML code insertion point with the appropriate Facebook code inserted

All available social network-related code snippets

When sharing on Facebook, the recipient can not only see the link to the newsletter, but also a title, a description and an image. Because of this, we recommend that you add Open Graph properties to your email, which make it easier to include the required text and main image for Facebook sharing. See the Contactsend Guide > Create and How to… for more details.

Continue as follows:

  1. Locate the precise point in the HTML code where the meta tags should be inserted and position your mouse cursor there.
  2. Click Open Graph properties and define the Title, Description and Image.0

The meta tags insertion point and the Open Graph properties window

  1. When you are finished, click insert.
    The meta tags are inserted where you have placed your mouse.

The meta tags inserted in the HTML code

  1. Because the link points to a static HTML page, it needs to be published online, using Contactsend.
  2. It will be published automatically during the Confirm step of creating an email delivery, when the following page is displayed.
    The following options are available:

    • Upload an alternative template.
    • Define the publication URL.
      The static HTML is selected automatically.
    • Rename the HTML page.
      The .html file extension must be included, to ensure that it displays correctly.
    • View a preview of the published web version.
    • Modify the current template with an HTML editor.

If you do not make any changes, the newsletter that is delivered will be the same as the one published on the web.

Because the shared links only work correctly in delivered messages, we recommend that you send a test delivery to your email address, to check that everything works as you expect.

For more information read the guide or contact our Customer Care.