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If you like traffic on your site then you’ll probably like Facebook’s ‘Like’ button – a lot13th July, 2010

There’s a very conclusive report over at TypePad about the benefits of adding Facebook’s ‘Like’ button to your web site. In short, it boosts traffic from Facebook by around 50%, which is not at all bad considering how easy it is to integrate into your design (check this instruction video at Social Networking Weblog to learn how).

The results are derived from an experiment in which roughly 1,500 TypePad bloggers installed the button (launched by FB last April) on their blogs and then recorded the ensuing boost in traffic. Full graphical data of the results can be found at either TypePad or Mashable.

Whatsmore, once TypePad added the like button as a post footer, bloggers saw a 200% boost in referrals from Facebook,…

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