Ability to share products on Facebook and Twitter


rstinnett
Boonville, MO
2009 President's Circle
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Idea_tail_up posted on May 17, 2009 at 04:49PM to Online Community

I want to be able to click on a "Share This" link and be able to share products I am looking at on sears.com or kmart.com with my friends on Twitter or Facebook.  I just saw the new Kenmore Black Stainless Steel Trio refrigerator and wanted to show it off on Facebook but there is no easy way to do that!


view 5 comments | leave a comment Latest comment: August 27, 2009 at 09:53PM by SHC-JohnL
2009 Chairman's Circle posted on May 17, 2009 at 10:54PM
 

Wouldn't the URL be really long and eat up your Twitter characters? You'd be better off running the URL through tinyurl.com or a similar site before posting. I don't think they'd want to be seen endorsing a particular URL conversion site, and leaving the URL long is cumbersome and restrictive. Just my guesses.


2009 President's Circle posted on May 18, 2009 at 09:25AM
 

TinyURL and the others are industry standards -- and they use 301 redirects which do not affect page rank of SEO. Other retailers (like Finishline) already do this, so it can be done. In fact if you look up at the top of this screen you will see a "share this" button so they are already doing it on MySears -- I just would like to see them expand it to all of Sears.com and Kmart.com


2009 Chairman's Circle posted on May 18, 2009 at 01:14PM
 

Yeah, I've seen the "e-mail this to a friend" thing on sears.com, but I don't know why they don't do something similar outside of e-mail.


 Community Manager (MySears) posted on May 25, 2009 at 02:41PM
 

Great idea which the folks who manage sears.com and kmart.com should know about. Would you want to tweet the product description and price with URL? Maybe the image (twitpic?)?


2009 Friends Circle posted on August 27, 2009 at 09:53PM
 

There is now a "share this item" link in the top right corner of a product page. This lets you share on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Delicious, Digg and others.




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