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Top 4 reason to use social share plugin in your WordPress website
Posted: Jun 22, 2017
Most of you have witnessed it everyday when you are reading a blog. Most of you have read it as a recommendation for blog and business website. Social share plugins are widely used by bloggers and website developers.
A social share plugin in WordPress site displays social media share buttons on different elements. It supports multi site and has sharing capability on more than 50 social networks. It can be images, videos, podcasts, documents, pages, categories, products etc. Visitors can easily share those elements on social media.
How a social share plugin work?
It can be installed like other plugins, either by downloading or by searching it on dashboard in plugins.
After enabling them, they have to be configured manually to be seen on different elements on website.
They either can be configured to show in horizontal position, or in vertical position (top, bottom or both). Positions and count of share buttons can also be fixed using configuration.
There are four reason you should use social share plugin. They are-
Share buttons help in driving traffic to your website. This traffic is mainly social traffic and is as beneficial as other modes of traffic.
People share what they like, so if your post/article is interesting, they will share it as soon as possible. Sharing something on social media can help sharer to distribute that content to their favourite mass like family, friends, followers.
Share plugin on WordPress website increase user experience of visitors by displaying social share buttons on elements which can be shared on social media. If someone wants to share a content from a website to their social profiles, they copy the link and image and paste on social media to make shared content attractive and sharable. Social share buttons directly share the content without any copy paste of content.
Sharing plugins are responsive also, so they help in sharing from mobile and tablet devices.
Content marketing efforts include sharing plugin in their strategy, so they should be there on any website to boost content marketing efforts.
These were the four reasons to use social share plugin in your WordPress website.
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