LinkedIn Share Button

[Anonymous]

We publish a weekly email newsletter that I also would like to "share" on our company's group discussion page each week.  However, when I try to insert the HTML code for the share button into the email, I am not able to approve the draft.  I get an error that the message contains "script tags".  Can anyone tell me how to get around this and/or what it means?

Thanks!

[Mike_Reynolds2]

Greg,

You won't be able to put any social media share buttons inside of an email because they require scripts to function and scripts aren't allowed in emails (they're a common way to spread viruses, so most email providers block those emails anyway). As an alternative, if you have a link to a landing page in your email, you can put the share button on the landing page.

[Anonymous]

That explains it.  Thanks for your help!

[Anonymous]

Hi, I just imported and editedd Mizona email template and it actually contains social media icons. Does that mean that I am not able to use them at all, ever?

My company has just started using Marketo and we actually haven't deployed any of the emails yet.

[Mike_Reynolds2]

You can use any image and hyperlink you want in an email. However, a "social share" is usually going to refer to the sharing of content inside of LinkedIn or Facebook or Twitter, etc.. If you place a LinkedIn icon image in your email, you can hyperlink it to LinkedIn, but it just directs to the site, it doesn't actually post content info like when you would use a button on a landing page. When sharing a landing page with the button, it carries a preview of the page content and description details. Here's the related documentation on it: Add a Social Button to a Free-form Landing Page - Marketo Docs - Product Docs

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much for your quick reply.