Best WordPress Plugins To Promote Your Site
written by Nikola LazarevicIf you’re running WordPress blog and you want to promote your blog posts with social bookmarking to reach more readers, the following WordPress plugins are just a few of the options available to help you accomplish this.
There are countless plugins available to help integrate social media links into your posts, if we missed your favorite WordPress social media plugins, please leave links to them in the comments.
SexyBookmarks is an extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites.
Whether they are on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, BlinkList, or any other social network/sharing site, the Sociable Plugin will allow your blog to be connected to the social media stream, making your content known to the world.
The Social Media Marketing Plugin that lets you put social bookmarking links in your posts and other pages. Help your readers promote your blog and watch your traffic grow!
Contains social links to over 50 famous and less famous social websites. You can choose which one will appear and which one will not.
Digg Digg is a WordPress plugin that is used to generate social vote button, which include Digg , Reddit , Dzone , Yahoo Buzz , TweetMeme (twitter) , fbShare (facebook), Polladium, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Sphinn, Post comments and Google Buzz buttons.
Social Bookmarks is a WordPress plugin that adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts that allow your visitors to easily submit them in a number of different social bookmarking sites. The plugin supports more than fifty sites and that is without including the sites of the available Site Packs.
I Love Social Bookmarking is a simple WordPress plugin that allows your readers to submit your content to social media services via a clutter-free drop-down list of attractive icons.
The ShareThis WordPress plugin provides a simple way for users to add your post to many social bookmarking sites, or to send a link to your post via email, AIM, Facebook, Twitter and more.
The TweetMeme button plugin allows you to easily integrate the TweetMeme button into your WordPress blog. The plugin will put the button into both your content and your feed.
This plugin gives you full control of the digg button, easily allows your blog post or page to be dugg!
This plugin adds a link to the bottom of each post and page on your blog with the text “Share on Facebook”, Facebook icon, both or the Facebook share button depending on what you choose on the Options page.
We’d love to hear from you! If you could install just one plugin to promote your post, which one would it be?
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14 Comments
ADD COMMENTBenjamin Rama says:
March 18, 2010very good list Nikola ,ive been looking for a separate stumble button like the digg digg one cheers , bookmarked for when I have time to install some more plugins cheers
Logobird says:
March 18, 2010Excellent list of plugins Nikola. Thanks for this mate!
Paulo says:
March 18, 2010Great tips, Nikola! I was looking for the facebook share button, now I found in digg digg.
Thanks.
jared thompson says:
March 18, 2010Amazing to see how many ways their are to promote a WordPress site, and plug-ins make this idea so much easier.
netbook reviews says:
March 18, 2010It would have been nice if you would told us which one is the most lean, mean :)
JC says:
March 18, 2010Great list….always looking for ways to promote!
Rocky says:
March 20, 2010Nice collection.. i love Sociable plugin bocz it is simple and matches with any theme..
adone says:
March 21, 2010Great list. More “WordPress Plugins” blog posts please.
Zoe says:
March 22, 2010Great post – I have been using the AddToAny plugin but some of the ones you mentioned are much prettier ;)
Ivan Balletta says:
April 7, 2010Hey, I am checking this site from my iPhone and it looks kinda funky. Thought you’d want to know. It’s a great post though, didn’t mess that up :)
Bottomless says:
May 1, 2010Here’s the Facebook Like button plugin (for the new Like button released April 21st 2010) available from WordPress:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/like
Benjamin Edwards says:
May 2, 2010i have tried social media marketing for getting our new products to be known on the market. it seems to work well specially if the audience is targeted .
searchterm says:
October 3, 2010I discovered your blog site on google and check a few of your early posts. Continue to keep up the very good operate. I just additional up your RSS feed to my MSN News Reader. Seeking forward to reading more from you later on!?
David Artiss says:
December 23, 2010I’d also like to recommend my own plugin, Simple Social Bookmarks (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-social-bookmarks/).
It has over 200 social bookmarking sites to choose from and is very flexible!