Streamline Social Sharing Buttons on Your WordPress Site with Sharedaddy

Every WordPress blog that is publishing regularly requires some form of social sharing for its content. More than likely, the bulk of your traffic is going to come from the energetic social sharing of your articles by devoted readers. Many businesses are finding that Twitter and Facebook are becoming their number one referrers for new traffic, simply because of content-sharing between readers of similar interests.

If you’re new to managing your content with WordPress, then you need to know that offering some form of social sharing of your content is a must. However, sorting through the overwhelming number of plugins that do this can be exhausting. I want to recommend Sharedaddy. It’s a plugin developed for WordPress.com and was recently made available to self-hosted WordPress sites in the repository.

Sharedaddy includes all the traditional avenues of sharing: Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, StumbleUpon, PressThis, Digg, Print, and Email. It also includes the ability to add custom sharing services as necessary. Drag and drop the buttons you want to include and you’re ready to go.

Three solid reasons to use this plugin:

• Its sleek, minimalistic design is unobtrusive and will not upstage your content.
• It was developed for one of the largest blog networks on the internet and is likely to be well-maintained and updated for each new WordPress release.
• Adding a new sharing service is easy and can be done directly through the dashboard without hacking the plugin.

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It is key, however, to remember that no matter how heavily your site is covered in social sharing buttons, if your content isn’t unique and useful, visitors will not share it. Keep your focus on producing solid, valuable content and your articles are more likely to find their way to larger numbers of unique visitors. Improved sharing functions on your blog will help you to discover the increasing power of social media to drive new traffic to your website.

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