Top WordPress Plugins for Social Media Marketing
Tools to Increase Blog Traffic and Engage Readers
Sep 5, 2009
Blogging is central to social media marketing, and WordPress.org offers hundreds of plugins to increase viral exposure through other social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Digg.
WordPress.org is a leading blog publishing platform that can be customized much more than its WordPress.com counterpart. Users of WordPress.org have access to the Official WordPress Plugins Repository, which houses thousands of plugins to increase functionality. The following plugins are designed to increase blog traffic and engage readers with social media tools:
Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button Allows Visitors to Share Blog Posts
Readers can easily share blog posts with the Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button plugin. It appends a single button to the bottom of blog posts, which links to nearly any social networking (e.g. Facebook, MySpace) or social bookmarking (e.g. del.icio.us, reddit) site. It also allows users to e-mail individual posts to one or more addresses.
Sociable Allows the Administrator to Select Bookmarking Links to Share Blog Posts
The Sociable plugin automatically adds select links to social bookmarking sites on the bottom of each post, page and RSS feed. The blog administrator can choose from 99 social bookmarking icons to add to the blog.
Subscription Options Provides a Widget with Three Ways to Subscribe to a Blog
E-mail, RSS and Twitter represent the three most popular ways to subscribe to a blog. The Subscription Options plugin generates a sidebar widget with links to these options, using similar icons for each. Blog administrators just need to enter the feed URLs.
TweetMeme Button Allows Readers to Retweet Blog Posts
The TweetMeme Button plugin adds a “retweet” button to blog posts and RSS feeds. Readers can click on the button to share the post on their Twitter accounts. The title of the post and short link is displayed. This plugin also provides statistics for the blog administrator to track who is tweeting what.
Twitter Widget Pro Generates a Twitter Feed for WordPress Blogs
Twitter Widget Pro is an easy-to-use plugin that creates a sidebar widget with a Twitter feed. It includes @username, #hashtag and link parsing. There is an additional option to display profile images of users.
Feed Facebook, Leave Facebook Allows Bloggers to Direct Facebook Users to a Blog
Facebook is among the most popular social networking sites worldwide. The Feed Facebook, Leave Facebook plugin generates a separate partial feed for Facebook that directs users to the blog while leaving the primary full-text feed intact.
Digg This Button Distributes Blog Posts Through Digg
Digg is a popular social news site in which users submit and share their favorite links to articles and blog posts. This plugin adds a “Digg This” button to the top or bottom of each post, as directed by the administrator. It also allows users to customize the Digg skin and select the button background color.
WordPress plugins can help increase blog traffic and engage readers. The above plugins can be downloaded from the Official WordPress Plugins Repository.
To learn more about popular WordPress Plugins, visit Top WordPress Plugins for Every Blogger and Top WordPress Plugins for Business Blogs.
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