Mar 20 2009

Encourage Your Readers to Share Your Posts

This Friday tip was provided by our reader SEOdart.

Social media optimization is an important step to making your content viral. Offer your visitors an easy way to share your posts throughout all popular social bookmarking and networking sites.

A few most useful WordPress plugins that unite multiple social media sites and offer your readers one-click submission include:

And which one are you using? How do you encourage your visitors to promote your content?

18 Responses to “Encourage Your Readers to Share Your Posts”

  1. cleomorgause (Cleo Morgause) says:
    December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm

    3 plugins #wordpress para ajudar a compartilhar cont?do com os leitores: http://tinyurl.com/ce9nwx (via @annsmarty)

  2. cleomorgause (Cleo Morgause) says:
    December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm

    Encourage Your Readers to Share Your Posts: http://tinyurl.com/ce9nwx

  3. BrokenUrn (Robert C) says:
    December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm

    3 great content distribution widgets for any web page http://is.gd/ogR9

  4. Joel Drapper says:
    March 20, 2009 at 7:20 pm

    Thanks for sharing this tip. I usually add social bookmarking links manually in the theme, but it reminded me that I need to do that anyway.

    Thanks again!

    Joel Drapper’s last incredible blog post..WeFollow – Great New Twitter Directory

  5. Alysson says:
    March 20, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    For WordPress users, I highly recommend Joost’s Sociable plugin. It includes almost any social bookmarking/sharing service available and you can choose which to include. It’s very useful.

    I actually input the Digg submit, Sphinn, and Fetch It buttons manually using their respective codes so those options are more prominent, and also to show the number of Diggs, etc.

    Alysson’s last incredible blog post..Hi, I’m Alysson and I Am Addicted to WordPress Plugins

  6. Steen Öhman says:
    March 20, 2009 at 8:41 pm

    I use the sociable plugin, it easy to use and have most sharing services.

    It’s always a good idea to encourage the users to show some viral behaviour

  7. Mr. I says:
    March 21, 2009 at 1:41 am

    I tested lot of plugins that add social bookmarking icons but no ne satisfied my taste. So, I did some research and coded them into theme.

    I added 3 most popular services to this and to make sure other are available, I use ShareThis plugin as a dropdown.

    Mr. I’s last incredible blog post..Why You Should Subscribe to Our Feeds

  8. Gerald Weber says:
    March 21, 2009 at 4:37 am

    Ann,

    I was using a plugin called sociable that would give an option to share on most social platforms like Digg, SU, Reddti ect, However I recently switched to Tweet this because as the name implies it gives you teh option to tweet but also includes support for SU, Delicious, Reddit and Plurk. I liket he way the buttons looke better and they are more prominent.

    Also a similar WordPress plugin I use is Referrer Detector What’s cool about this one is that it will only show a button for a certina platform when you user actually visited your site from that platform. i.e. if they came from StumbleUpon it will display the SU button and remind them to thumbs up if they like the article.

    Gerald Weber’s last incredible blog post..15 WordPress Plugins That I Can’t Live Without

    Ann Smarty Reply:
    March 21st, 2009 at 10:24 am

    Thanks, Gerald! Looks like you are a plugin-guru ;)

    Ann Smarty’s last incredible blog post..Search Cloudlet Adds Twitter Tag Clouds

    Gerald Weber Reply:
    March 21st, 2009 at 5:48 pm

    LOL, um ok. :-p

    Gerald Weber’s last incredible blog post..15 WordPress Plugins That I Can’t Live Without

  9. Barry Welford says:
    March 21, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    Like Gerald, I use the Tweet This plugin. Details are as follows:
    Tweet This v. 1.3.9 Adds a “Tweet This Post” link to every post and page. Shortens URLs in advance through Th8.us, eating up only 19 of 140 characters. Customize under Settings > Tweet This. By Richard X. Thripp.

    I also use the Tell-a-friend Widget Plugin for WordPress v. 1.0 by socialtwist. I find this particularly good with a large number of options and always use it to create my Del.icio.us and Technorati bookmarks once I have completed the post.

    Both of these put handy buttons at the foot of each post.

    Barry Welford’s last incredible blog post..Zoomit For Proud Canadians

  10. CybernautSEO says:
    March 21, 2009 at 10:10 pm

    I use the dofollow plug in to follow commentators links but do not want to follow all of the social links. Anyone know a workaround for wordpress? This problem has kept me from adding the sociable plug in.

    CybernautSEO’s last incredible blog post..TLD Country Codes and Hosting for international SEO

  11. peterK says:
    March 22, 2009 at 5:31 am

    Cheers for sharing this. Found it very useful, so thanks again.

  12. PM.Online says:
    March 23, 2009 at 6:44 am

    I use comment luv to make my reader and poster to get in touch with there last comment and I think this is the best “passife advertising so far to keep my link always tail them wherever they left another post to another site and stated there opinion

  13. Josh Millrod says:
    March 23, 2009 at 8:21 pm

    I use Greg Boser’s Dofollow plug-in which works just fine with Sociable. The most recent versions of both integrate without following the social media links.

    http://www.gregboser.com/downloads/

    Josh Millrod’s last incredible blog post..The Truth About Linkbuilding: Good vs Crappy Links

  14. long distance moving company says:
    March 24, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    Great tip, this can be a very powerful tool. I have tried ShareThis and Add to Any, and I prefer Add to Any because it opens an iframe on mouseover, which I think is easier for the readers than having to click on the ShareThis icon. I’ve read good things about Sociable but haven’t tried it.

  15. David Leonhardt says:
    March 29, 2009 at 1:02 am

    I would be very remiss if I did not mention The Bookmarketer, which we keep very up to date (Spurl, Furl and Magnolia have all been removed).

    David Leonhardt’s last incredible blog post..SEO Strategies for government websites

  16. yabinlee says:
    August 25, 2010 at 11:15 pm

    important step to making your content viral. Offer your visitors an easy way to share your posts throughout all popular social bookmarking and networking sites.

    A few most useful WordPress plugins that unite