Today, the blog-O-sphere has led us to socialize to an extent one would have never thought of. Thanks to one of the most innovative technology of the century, the Internet. Blogs no more confine ourselves to writing posts and getting feedbacks or comments. Web 2.0 involves much more than just that. With the advent of technologies like Ajax, XML, Django framework, Python web development, etc. the way people work on the Internet has changed dramatically.
Moving on to the topic of discussion today, we shall have a look at one of the popular ways in which one can promote a blog post. This is known as Social Bookmarking. We shall review few of the top social bookmarking plugins for Wordpress. I feel socializing a blog is somehow adds more value to the posts as compared to employing direct SEO strategy. Such plugins allow your visitors to evangelize your blog posts by sharing it.
Use this awesome plugin to automatically add links below posts to popularize it on social bookmarking websites like Digg, Technorati, StumbleUpon, Facebook, etc. The admin panel allows you to choose any number of social sites from around 100 listed networking sites!
The plugin gives you a choice to decide on pages where you wish the social sites icons to be shown. You can keep it on full-posts, static pages and even in the RSS feed. The plugin is showcased as a “share and enjoy” badge just after the post.
As the name says, you may use this plugin to allow the visitors to share a post on your blog to several social bookmarking websites. They can also send your post to friends and their peers via email! This plugin is a good option if you’re looking for an option to track sharing statistics.
It is by far one of the most widely used sharing or bookmarking plugin across a plethora of blogs in the blog-O-sphere.
This is yet another WP plugin which adds an array of XHTML compliant social bookmarking graphic links at the end of blog posts, allowing your visitors to submit them with ease to a number of different social bookmarking websites.
The plugin can be customized from within the WordPress admin panel. The plugin uses a stylesheet named social_bookmarks.css which can be modified to integrate it further with your theme.
Micro-blogging is in! Thanks to services like Twitter and Tumblr which have caught a lot of attention for people who wish to write things short and fast and wish it to spread far and wide. This plugin generates a tweet on your twitter account whenever you happen to publish a new post. If you are atwitter freak and do most of the writing on twitter, you can use this plugin to show recent twitter updates in the sidebar of your blog. Now that’s cool!
5) WP Conditional Digg This Badge plugin
Digg is something as obvious to a profit blogger as a router is to a network engineer! Out of several Digg plugins I have come across and tested, WP Conditional Digg This Badge plugin happens to be my favorite! This plugin has the intelligence of checking for a predefined number of Diggs (default is 10) before showing the “Digg This” button. Now that makes some sense to me and to your blog visitors too, I am sure. However, there have been reportedly some issues with WP 2.5 and above. This plugin is based on open source paradigm and shall soon be upgraded by someone or the other, if not the author.
6) WP_LinkTools
If you think getting your posts published on Digg is pretty boring and consumes time, this plugin is for you. Get your newly published post on delicious automatically with the help of this plugin. What’s more amazing is, you can use your post categories, tags and title as tags for the delicious links!
These were a few top notch social bookmarking tools which I’ve tried and tested. There are plethora of similar tools and plugins available on the WordPress website, but most of them serve the same cause in one or the other way. I hope these shall do some justice to your blog posts in spreading a word about them. Stay tuned for more action!
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Wow… these are super traffic plugins.
Thanks for your tips.
Thanks for this. It’s exactly what I was looking for. James
I am using a Wp template which is already using plugin but the thing is how to lead the reader to the comment page and see these plugins displayed.
On the homepage, they can’t see: so I have to use the “share button”.
I am not wordpress savvy, so is it a disadvantage to bloggers like us?
Wow! Another great info packed post from ProfitBlogger. I’m really starting to enjoy this site.
I’m going to try the Social Bookmarks plugin. I just wonder if anyone knows if it’s effective.
Great article Gobala. Stright forward and useful tools. Many thanks.
Actually I’ve been using some of the social bookmarking tools for some times, and I also test it in my different blogs. They give some positive result just on certain plugin. But I will still continue to use it so I can gather more real result and than later I will share it to all of the members here.
Fantastic article, thanks. I’m in the proccess of building my blog at the moment, and will certainly include a lot of these into it.