WordPress bloggers are finding social media the easiest and more influential way to reach more readers. There are plenty of Social Media plugins that can optimize your blog and increase its visibility on social media platforms. Here’s a list of top 8 must-have Social Media Plugins:
Share This
This thoughtfully designed plugin enables you to choose sites you want to target and gives readers the option to vote for you. Another great feature of Share This is that you can choose colors complementing your website. The best part is that it provides tracking reports, so you can see how many votes you have received.
Share This is simple and accelerates your online world.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/share-this/
Twitter Tools
This plugin serves to connect your WordPress blog with your Twitter account. Twitter Tools has features enabling you to:
- Place your tweets in the Archive section.
- Develop a post from your tweets
- Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you develop a post, providing a link to the blog post
- Post a tweet from your sidebar.
- Post a tweet from the admin panel of WordPress.
- Send your tweets to another service
An excellent plugin with pretty thorough feature sets.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/
Digg This
Digg can send a great stream of traffic to your site. This plugin enables you to place a button on your posts using which readers can conveniently digg your posts. The greatest advantage is that you get to choose which posts you want to Digg. You can even display the digg button on your home and archive pages.
To install this plugin, you need to upload the “Digg This” folder to your plugins folder. The next step is to navigate to the Plugins page and activate the plugin. To display the Digg button, you must add a custom field setting the key as ‘digg’ and its value as ’1′.
An interesting and quite simple plugin to use.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-digg-this/
SphinnIt
The plugin basically ads a “sphinn it” button to the blog post that allows people to vote for your post. Although, the button is drag n’ drop, but its position is fully customizable.
With this plugin your readers can easily Sphinn your posts, particularly if its on internet marketing and search related topics.
Good in terms of traffic generation.
http://www.michellemacphearson.com/wordpress-plugin-sphinnit-button/
WP Super Cache
This plugin is pretty useful if your site has to deal with a steady stream of traffic. The plugin enables your site/blog to deliver pages without routing through the database, treating them as static html pages. This makes your server’s work easier.
A static plugin that would especially be of help for slow updating forums.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/
Facebook Posted Items
This plugin enables you to share your posts with Facebook users. It accesses posted items from Facebook and displays them in a list with appropriate links and comments. To install, upload the file containing the plugin on your plugins folder. Then navigate to the Plugins page in the admin panel and enable Facebook sharer.
Looking for more ways to socialize and publicize your blog? Try this plugin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-posted-items/
I Love Social Bookmarking
This tool makes it easy for readers to vote for their favorite blog posts . All the reader has to do is click on a drop down menu, choose a social networking site and then vote for the particular post. This helps to minimize the screen space devoted to icons on your blog.
One of the best looking and stylish plugins.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/i-love-social-bookmarking/
Social Media Page Plugin
This Plugin provides a list of links to your chosen social media profiles on any networking site.
It saves you from the bother of entering your social media profiles, as it requires you to only type in your username and can access the profile by itself. The list provided is comprehensive, covering a variety of social media sites, which makes your task easier. Also, you can use your preferred keyword to link to the different sites.
The plugin greatly facilitates social networking.
