Increase Social Media Traffic With These 6 WordPress Plugins

Integrating social media is imperative for the success of your WordPress website. This due to the fact that social networks provide much-needed traffic to the site and improve rankings in the search engine results page. One of the best ways to integrate social media is by using social media plugins, which can be used to track follower count, add sharing capabilities and more.  Here are 6 WordPress plugins you can use to increase social media traffic on your WordPress website.

1.      Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress

Easy Social Share Buttons is a plugin used to add sharing buttons to your WordPress website. It supports around 40 different social media platforms and the buttons themselves can be displayed in 20 different positions. Another feature offered by this plugin is the ability to add various shareable quotes to your content, which additionally helps increase traffic coming from and to social media. This is a premium plugin, which means that it isn’t free. But fortunately, it’s not particularly expensive and you can purchase it for just $19.

2.      WP Twitter Feeds

This powerful yet free twitter plugin allows users to feature twitter activity on WordPress blogs and websites. It’s a free plugin, which offers users to create a widget that displays the number of likes and retweets, as well as additional sharing options. Other features include hiding Twitter intents and excluding all replies related to your tweets. It doesn’t require a password, as it uses APIs to connect to Twitter. With WP Twitter Feeds, you’re giving your blog social reliability and make it seem more active to the new users.

3.      Monarch

Monarch is elegant, yet very powerful social media plugin made by Elegant themes, which allows users to share your content on various social networks. It’s certainly one of the cleanest and simplest plugins when it comes to design and with it, you can add social media sharing, fly-ins, pop-ups, floating sidebars, inline sharing links and much more. They can be added almost anywhere on your website and can even me featured on mobile sites. Unfortunately, it’s somewhat expensive when compared to other plugins on the list and costs $69.

4.      Digg Digg

Another excellent sharing plugin, Digg Digg has been recently overhauled by its creators. Currently, the plugin offers social media sharing capabilities in the form of a share bar which is located on the left side of your WordPress website. The bar follows users as they scroll down and flats as they read the go through the content. In addition to the sidebar, you can also add social sharing buttons, both at the top and at the bottom of your website.

5.      Social Metrics

Social Metrics allows its users to track how many times their articles were shared on various social media platforms. The number of shares can be filtered by category or date, making it easier to see which ones are performing better than the others. It’s clean interface and compact design makes it extremely easy for users to overview all the sharing activities associated with your posts and see which articles require additional work. Furthermore, you can use this plugin to filter out the most popular content and analyze it in order to understand what makes the readers want to share that specific content and incorporate that information in your other posts.

6.      Sumo

Sumo is regarded as one of the best free plugins used to display important statistics, add the ability to join an email list and, of course, social media sharing capabilities. Experts from WordPress Website Design Sydney highly recommend this plugin, as it features share buttons, welcome mats, image shares, list builder in the form of a pop-up used to build e-mail subscriptions and even a heat maps you can use to track user behavior. It integrates with all the major management software used for handling e-mails, including Aweber and MailChimp and it can be placed anywhere on your website.Even GOPCSOFT uses the same Plugin to attract more audiences.

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These are just some of the most popular social media sharing solutions available for WordPress. Some are free while other require some additional resources, but they do provide some excellent opportunities to increase the social media presence on your website and in turn, drive much-needed traffic. There are other plugins available on the internet which offer similar capabilities and if you’re interested in testing them out, make sure to download them only from the official WordPress repository.