It’s one thing to write and have great content on your website. It is another thing for that content to be discoverable and easily shared by your visitors.
One great way to make your content discoverable is to make it easy for your readers to share with their followers on the different social networks they are in by adding social media buttons within your posts or on sidebars.
There are many free social share plugins at your disposal. So let’s see the popular social share plugin.
Mashshare
Mashshare is a free social share plugin that comes with social media buttons that enable your readers to share your content to different social media networks.
The free plugin you download from the WordPress social media repository only has Facebook and Twitter social media networks. To get the other social media buttons, like Pinterest, LinkedIn, and many more, you will have to purchase the premium version of the plugin.
AddtoAny
I could bet you a dollar; for as long as you have been browsing the internet, you have seen the AddToAny social share plugin buttons on some websites.
AddToAny is one social share plugin whose existence can be traced back to the days when the very first social media sites sprouted.
AddThis
This is another very popular social sharing plugin that is totally free; you will be totally spoiled for choice if you pick this for your website with buttons for more than 200 social media networks.
AddThis social share plugin’s buttons are used in more than 15 million websites.
You can have the standard buttons or floating buttons which you can totally customize with your brand colors.
Shareaholic
Shareaholic is more than a social share plugin. The features you get from the free WordPress plugin are more than enough to let your content be easily shared across multiple social networks.
It takes a minute or two to install a social media plugin and configure it for your site, but the perks of increased exposure to your content are a lifetime. You may be interested in how to add live chat to a WordPress site.
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