When you're actively gigging it's important to get the word out to everyone. To have the most visibility you’ll want to promote your shows on your website as well as through social media. One way to make this happen is to use the share options provided in our 'Calendar' feature. Enabling the 'Show share links' option also creates a permalink for the event, which helps boost SEO.
This Help article includes the following information:
- Enabling the option to share events
- How to share events from your website account
- How to share events from your website
- How to hide the 'share' option
To share your music on social media, please view the 'Sharing Music' Help article.
Enabling the option to share events
Enabling sharing will create a permalink that indexes your event, which will display in search engine results. To show sharing links and index your events, follow these steps: 1. From the 'Edit Content' tab, open the page where your event is displayed 2. Select 'Options' in the feature sidebar 3. In the 'Options' tab, toggle on the 'Show share links' option 4. Click 'Save'
Sharing events from your website account
Use this option to share events to your social media accounts.
- From the 'Edit Content' tab, open the page where your event is displayed
- Click the 'Calendar' feature
- Click the 'Share' button
- Choose the share option you'll be using:
- Facebook: Click the Facebook icon
- Threads: Click the Threads icon
- X: Click the X icon
- By Email: Click the email icon
- By direct link: Click 'Copy' in the 'Link' field, and paste that into a social media post, email, or text message.
- QR Code: Copy, print, or download the QR Code that will link directly to your track or album when scanned.
How to share events from your website
From your website, you or your fans can follow these steps to share an event to social media accounts. The 'Share' button is located in different spots, depending on which display view you've selected for the 'Calendar' feature. (To see which view you're using, click the 'Options' tab in the left-hand pane within the 'Calendar' feature.)
- From the 'Calendar' feature, click the 'Share' link
Note: In 'table' or 'calendar' views, you'll need to click the event name/date, to see the 'Share' link.
- Choose the share option you'll be using:
- Facebook: Click the Facebook icon
- Threads: Click the Threads icon
- X: Click the X icon
- By Email: Click the email icon
- By direct link: Click 'Copy' in the 'Link' field, and paste that into a social media post, email, or text message.
- QR Code: Copy, print, or download the QR Code that will link directly to your track or album when scanned.
How to hide the 'share' option
If you don't want visitors to have the option to share your event to social media, that link can be hidden from your website:
- From the 'Edit Content' tab, open the page where your 'Calendar' feature is displayed
- Select 'Options' in the left sidebar
- In the 'Options' tab, toggle off the 'Show share links on events' option
- Click 'Save'
Note: If you previously allowed sharing, links found in Google search index may still be usable.
