If you are not on Facebook and twitter then you are nowhere. If your stories couldn’t be found on digg and StumbleUpon then your story cannot be found anywhere. To say the least, this is the power of social media. If you have not embraced the social media until now then do it soon before it is too late for your website.

You must have heard this kind of rattling about social media from every nook and corner. Well, the people making such hue and cry about social media are not wrong, but the hue and cry is indeed a bit of exaggerated. Nevertheless, one need to be on the social sites to be successful, and it holds true for your blog as well.

Let me introduce you to top 5 social media plug-ins that will make your WordPress blog social media friendly.

1. Sociable

This is by far the best social bookmarking plug-in for your WordPress blog. It supports almost all the major social bookmarking sites. In total it supports 99 social bookmarking sites. Sociable is highly customizable. You can add, remove, and rearrange the bookmarking buttons just by dragging and dropping to suit your need. Click here to download Sociable now.

2. RankingBadge

If you got a good ranking then why not flaunt it? This plug-in does exactly that. You can use RankingBadge plug-in to display Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, and Technorati rank in your WordPress blog’s sidebar. Click here to get your copy of RankingBadge now.

3. Social Homes

Social Homes plug-in adds a sidebar widget that displays favicons linked profiles of all your profiles on the social media sites. The new version of the plug-in will let you add any link to the any website, which essentially mean that this plug-in support every social media site.

To use it, all you need to do is to add the URL of a website and its name. The plug-in will then fetch the favicon from the website you have entered, and assign it to the URL for display. This is an easy tool to display all your social profiles in the sidebar of your WordPress blog. Click here to download Social Homes now.

4. Tweet This

No discussion on social media can be complete without mentioning the 140-character magic, twitter. This plug-in automatically tweets your new posts. It works well with schedule posts as well. Tweet This plug-in use your favorite URL shortening service to shorten the blog posts’ permalinks to be posted on twitter. The new version of plug-in also has in-built support for Plurk, Yahoo Buzz, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, MySpace, Ping.fm, Reddit, and StumbleUpon. Click here to download Tweet This today.

5. The WordPress Bar

Did you ever wanted to have a personal bar just like the DiggBar on the pages you send your visitors to? It is possible now to have this with The WordPress Bar. Now, even if you send your visitors away from your blog through outbound links, the visitors remain connected to your blog with your blog bar, which appears at the top of the page you sent him to, just like the DiggBar. This bar does many more things. You need to check this out to know what all it has to offer.
Click here to download The WordPress Bar today.

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