Why "Tell a Friend Scripts" is useless

In certain extent it did, it was an useful way for your visitors telling their friends about your site.

It was getting really popular in the year 1997-2005 as your visitors read something that they liked that they wanted to share with their friends, and the script allowed them to do it from your web page with just a single click!

Most webmasters ask you to promote it through social media.

For example, take a look at my site, I do not have any “tell a friend scripts” installed since I prefer that my visitors promote my site through social media such as Stumbleupon, Twitter, Facebook and etc.

You can see at the bottom of every pages of my website, there is an option to share the link through social network.

I think that works better than using “tell a friend scripts”.



If you are using the script, it would only allow you to share it with one friend using a single e-mail address.

But if you are using social media, it lets you promote it to a whole bunch of people at once.

Facebook and Twitter are the two most important social networks nowadays and most people use these sites to get in touch with their friends so it is much easier for them to share their site through these social media.

A great tool for any online marketer would be to include AddThis option to their site.

This powerful tool simply allows your visitors to share your site through social networks. The tool is completely free, all you to have to do is to add their code in your HTML tags.

Take a look at this: