If you have a blog or website, I’m sure you already have some kind of process set up to include social media traffic benefits to it. Whether you are just looking for a few new visitors or to gain backlinks or trying to get more friends across your networks, sharing yourself around the main social sites can help profusely. This of course is nothing new but using the free tools that are available such as those below, ensure that we spend less time doing it!
Make it easy for others to share your stuff!
Today, I’m going to look at 10 useful and free resources that can help you with regard to easy social bookmarking and sharing across the web’s favourite social sites. Many of the following tools are WordPress plugins but similar widgets are available for standard static websites too. These incorporate all the social media big boys like Facebook, Digg, Twitter and so on and can make your life a lot easier and save you time with bookmarking etc.
You’ve probably noticed that social-media-traffic.com uses a number of plug-ins for Twitter, Facebook and so on. These make it easy to share news and views across the world wide web with your followers and friends and for others to do the same and spread your content for you. By the way if you’re reading this and find it useful – I’d really appreciate a retweet below, thanks! 
There are hundreds of WordPress plugins for that will give you social media benefits and those below are really just 10 of the best. If you don’t use WordPress for your website or blog, just do a Google search or check a social site directly to see if you can get a widget, HTML or Javascript code to add similar functions to your site.
“This plugin adds a footer link to add the current post or page to a Facebook Mini-Feed. While the plugin is activated a link will appear after the content of the post with the text “Share on Facebook” or the Facebook icon or both.”
“Digg This O’ Mine” is a plugin that allows you to place the famous “Digg This” button at the end of your posts, pages, or anywhere at your choice.”
“The Social Media Page WordPress plugin will add a list of links to your social media profiles on a page or post of your choice through the use of a simple tag. A widget is also added so that you can display this list of links in the side menu of the site. Rather than getting you to enter all of your social media profiles as URLs the plugin gets you to enter your username and works out the rest for you.”
“Icons for major Social Bookmarking websites: Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us, dzone, stumbleupon, blinklist, blogmarks, furl, newsvine, technorati, magnolia.”
Sociofluid - As seen below!
“The Follow Me plugin was updated in Version 2.0 to allow users to stick the widget on the side of their website. Along with that we included new pop-up functionality that displays all of your social profiles with large icons. We also included in this update the ability to add your Google buzz profile along with an RSS icon.”
“Allows you to add full or partial posts to Google Buzz automatically. There is no longer any reason to wait for Google to crawl your site either. Just click the link in the settings panel after you enter your google ID and tell google to recrawl your site. Works immediately, and you can then link your site to your buzz.”
“RO Social Bookmarks plugin for WordPress adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts and/or pages that allow your visitors to easily submit them on social bookmarking / network sites. RO Social Bookmarks support the following social networks: BlogRO, Digg RO, BlogPoint, FTW, Ghidoo, Zilei, Polimedia, VoxRo, ProBlogger, Proddit, Baga Mare, Recomanda, BlogPoint, Preferate, Del.icio.us, digg, FURL, blinklist, Socializer, reddit, Feed Me Links!, Technorati, Newsvine, Ma.gnolia, Google Bookmarks, Squidoo, BlinkBits, Stumble Upon, RawSugar, Netvouz, Rojo, Blogmarks, Co.mments, Scuttle, Tailrank, Bloglines, Netscape, Bookmark.it, Ask, linkagogo, del.irio.us, Socialdust, Live – MSN, Slashdot, Sphinn, Seotribu, FaceBook, HealthRanker, Barrapunto, Blogsphere news, Blogsvine, Mixx, Scoopeo, Myspace, Twitter, Plim, IndianPad, Blue Dot, Connotea, Diggitsport, Tipd, forexassessment, FriendFeed.”
“The Gigya Toolbar increases your blog’s traffic and provides an opprtunity to make extra revenues:
- Get return traffic when users share and tweet from the toolbar.
- Supports 80 social destinations including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Yahoo.
- FREE and takes only 2 minutes to add to any site.
- The toolbar does not affect page load time! It loads only after the page has finished loading.
- Get paid for searches made from the toolbar (coming soon).”
“Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!”
“Automatically displays Google Buzz button for every post and pages. Why not have a button for sharing blog posts/pages to the service?”
Also remember to have an RSS logo with your feed URL attached for people to subscribe to. You can add my feed here.
