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Read our Blog: http://123-reg.co.uk/blog/

View our support site http://123-reg.co.uk/support/

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/123reg

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Log into your 123-reg control panel

Enter your 123-reg username and password.

Scroll down to the Ecommerce section of your control panel, select the shop that you wish to manage

from the dropdown list and click on the Log in button to the right.

This will take you to the eCommerce admin panel.

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Using Social Web tools

To access the Social Web section, click on Marketing and then click on Social Web.

You should now be on the following screen.

From here you can set your shop to include a Facebook Like button, a Tweet this button, a Google+ button,

and other social bookmarking services such as Digg, Delicious, Stumble upon, Technorati and Mister

Wong.

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To add a Tweet this button, click the Twitter icon on the page.

This will then open up a page where you can select to display the button on your product pages and

choose the style of button that is used.

Press the Save button when you have made your choice, to make the change show on your site online

you will need to update the page cache. You will be prompted to update your Page Cache. Clicking on the

prompt will trigger the update, and you will see a confirmation message upon completion.

You can then view the change online by pressing the Preview: Home page button, then if you navigate to

a product page you will see the Tweet this button has been added to your page.

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To add a Facebook Like button to your products, click the Facebook icon on the page.

This option will provide visitors to your site the ability to link your products to Facebook straight from your

product pages even if you don’t have a Facebook account.

Press the Save button when you have made your choice, to make the change show on your site online

you will need to update the page cache. You will be prompted to update your Page Cache. Clicking on the

prompt will trigger the update, and you will see a confirmation message upon completion.

You can then view the change online by pressing the Preview: Home page button, then if you navigate to

a product page you will see the Tweet this button has been added to your page.

Please Note: When clicking the Facebook buttons, data is sent to

Facebook. We advise you to inform your customers about this in the

Privacy policy.

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To add a Facebook Like button to your products, click the Facebook icon on the page.

This option will provide visitors to your site the ability to link your products to Google+ straight from your

product pages even if you don’t have a Google+ account.

Press the Save button when you have made your choice, to make the change show on your site online

you will need to update the page cache. You will be prompted to update your Page Cache. Clicking on the

prompt will trigger the update, and you will see a confirmation message upon completion.

Please Note: When clicking the Google+ buttons, data is sent to Google.

We advise you to inform your customers about this in the Privacy policy.

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To add one of the other social media bookmarks to your product page, click on the Social Bookmarks

icon.

This will take you to the following page which will allow you to set if you want to display a selection of

social media bookmarks to your products and which of them are actually displayed.

Press the Save button when you have made your choice, to make the change show on your site online

you will need to update the page cache. You will be prompted to update your Page Cache. Clicking on the

prompt will trigger the update, and you will see a confirmation message upon completion.

You can then view the change online by pressing the Preview: Home page button, then if you navigate to

a product page you will see the Tweet this button has been added to your page.

That is all you need to do in order to allow visitors to your eCommerce shop to be able to link your products

using social media.

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If you want to add your own like or follow me button to link to your own social media pages you can do that

by adding your own user defined page element. You will need to obtain the relevant code from twitter or

facebook to add to your page

Select Design then Advanced Design from the drop down list.

Choose the location on your page that you wish to place your item and click on Insert page element.

Then select User defined page elements.

Then choose either Text (HTML) or Text with heading (box with HTML) to either display your item on its

own or in a box formatted to match the other widget boxes in your eCommerce shop.

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Press the Insert button to continue.

Enter your heading in the Heading box and click the Edit text button to add HTML code. Then press the

Apply button to save the code.

Press the Apply button again to save the change and place your like button on the page.

Further Guides in the eCommerce series. Includes guides on:

Payment methods

Delivery settings

Products, Product Variations and Product Bundles

Newsletters and Marketing

The booking system

And many more….

These can be downloaded from http://www.123-reg.co.uk/support/