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7 Best Plugins to Increase Social Media Traffic to Your Site

Blogging for me has always been fun. This makes my job very enjoyable, because everyday I get to do what I love. Mark Twain once said, ‘a person who holds a cat by its tail learns something that he cannot know in any other way.’ With time I have become an expert in using the WordPress Platform.

During my journey, I took a pretty big hit when someone once hacked my accounts-and, well, lets just say, did a makeover on my websites. This incidence happened when I had tens of thousands of visitors on one of my sites. It’s pretty safe to say that it has not been the smoothest sail for me. There have been ups and downs, but I have always managed to land on my feet.

If you are starting out on WordPress, and have been checking out  DIY Thesis Theme Reviews, then you will probably be noticing that there are ways in which you can increase traffic to your site. By the use of WordPress Plugins, you can easily increase social media traffic to your website. When you implement some of the best social media plugins, you will be sure to find the same rise in traffic that I did when I started using them. These are my top 7 selections for 2012:

1. Digg Digg

This is a great plugin, which is basically an all in one sharing plugin. It has sharing buttons for twitter, Facebook, digg, LinkedIn, yahoo, dZone, Buzz, StumbleUpon, Reddit, TweetMeme, Serpd, Weblend, Sphinn, Design bump, and so on. Digg digg shows the count for each button. As a result you can know how many people have read your post.

2. Socialize

This is another great social media plugin that is designed to help increase traffic to your site. It does this in an easy way; by adding bookmarking buttons to the content on your website.

Additionally, a person has the freedom to add the bookmarks via the control panel of the posts area in WordPress.

3. Tweet Stream

This is a WordPress plugin that helps to display your tweets from twitter. It has an additional feature that gives people the freedom to display an avatar as well as the number of tweets one wants displayed.

4. Follow me Plugin

The follow me is another great bookmarking plugin. It normally allows a person to display all social media profiles by a click of a button. Therefore, it is easy for people to follow you. I love it because of its simplicity and ease of use.

5. GetSocial

This is another great plugin that is well liked since it works well with a number of browsers. It normally ensures simple sharing of social media. The script is usually at the bottom of the page and and does not affect page load times.

6. Sexy Bookmarks

Another great social media plugin that you can use on your site is sexy bookmarks. The advantage of sexy bookmarks is its fast loading capability and it works pretty well on mobile platforms.

7. AddtoAny

AddtoAny allows you to share any post via email, and any social media platform such as twitter, and Facebook.

By adding any or all of these plugins to your site you will surely see a rise in traffic. Try a few of them, then switch them up if you like. Make sure you do some tracking to see which ones result in the biggest traffic boost. These top 7 plugins will be sure not to dissapoint!

 

 

James Martell is a huge fan of WordPress, and today he is trying out the WordPress Genesis themes. He often jokes that he cannot even remember what existed before WordPress; and is the reason he believes that WordPress is the future of the web. James loves to see people succeed using WordPress websites so he regularly shares his knowledge via his many podcasts.

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Posted on: May 17, 2012