Best Social Media Sharing widgets

As a blogger, webmaster, SEO consults or ethical social network lover, we cannot forget or neglect social media. Social media play some rules, sometimes as a traffic provider and other times as a factor to change the search engine rank position. Any website or blog even authority blogs like Mashable and Techcrunch can not increase the online presence without using social media properly. In the first few months, TechCrunch did not use social media. So Pete Cashmore was able to make his blog most popular blog beyond techcrunch. One popular secret of a successful website is using the social media properly to increase the traffic and sales.

Many social media platforms out there, from them a few social media platforms are still surviving .Although the competition among them is high and they release  new features regularly to preserve the existing users and increase the popularity. Among all social networks like Google plus, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Delicious and Reddit are very important for webmasters. Some websites and blogs like photologs receive massive traffic through social media than search engines (Organic traffic). Any site can receive inorganic traffic at any time, after they shared the URLs. So integrating  the social sharing widgets with your site is very responsible to increase the number of social shares. We can find many official social sharing widgets. These sharing widgets are very popular. Though the question is generally it’s difficult to add all social sharing widgets in one page. Assume if you add 350+ social media sharing widgets on your website, what the page will look like? How many time will it take to load the web page?

So we have to use third party websites to get all social network share buttons. Some social sharing plugins provide all social network widgets such as like buttons, share buttons, pin buttons etc. These social media sharing widgets have different themes, share button sizes and different performances. So you can choose what social media sharing widget is applicable to your site and adapt it as you want (Like hiding sharing widgets in Contact us, About pages … etc.)

Below are the best social share plugins and top social sharing widget providers, which you can use for getting your social sharing button copy for free. Many social sharing platforms ask for signing up to get the unique social media sharing widget. Don’t think that it’s not necessary to create an account at these websites. They provide analytic reports for shares, likes and follows on each social network. The numbers of social shares each post gets, disclose many aspects like quality of content, readability, website’s influential readers etc.. So without wasting your valuable time, let’s see what are the top social media sharing widget providers and their features.

AddThis 

AddThis social sharing widget is the world’s largest social sharing plugin. AddThis social sharing widgets are used by more than 14 million domains worldwide. Newest sharing plugin which is ‘Smart Layers’ is extremely SMART. Despite AddThis smart layers, they also provide share buttons, follow buttons, welcome bar and trendy content (Mostly like related posts widget). Because 14 million quality domains are using AddThis, they have got 10 Pagerank, which discloses the importance of AddThis.

ShareThis

After AddThis social share plugin, ShareThis is the most popular social media widget provider. In October, 2013 sharing sharing plugin was installed in more than 2. 4 million websites and it got 23 billion page views. ShareThis plugins can be installed on any website platform like WordPress, Drupal, Blogger, Joomla, TypePad, Tumblr. Also you can install the ShareThis application on your IOS & Android mobile phones and share anything anytime. Like AddThis, ShareThis also provides an analytics report of your social sharing and following plugins. By using ShareThis sharing plugin, people can share your blog post to multiple social networks from one click. It’s a pretty cool feature as we want more shares!

Po.st 

Po.st social media sharing plugin come with an attractive design, which gets the user’s attention quicker. Like AddThis and ShareThis, after you added your po.st social sharing widget to your site, you can get the analytics report of clicks, shares, follows. Another delicious thing about po.st is you can generate additional revenue from each shares. After anyone shared your post or image; they will see a 300 * 250 ad. So the conversation rate will be higher and more shares is more income to your account. Any day did you think that you can generate revenue through social shares ?

Shareaholic 

Another social media sharing widget, which comes with the motto of “Sharing is Caring”. Its counters, tooltips and button styles make the sharing widget more pleasant. By adding shareaholic sharing widget bottom of post content, you can increase the number of shares.

Sharrre

Sharrre is a JQuery  plugin that allows you to create your sharing widgets. You can design custom sharing buttons add them to your blog or website. See some attractive examples of sharing buttons from this link. If you need to add customized sharing buttons which load quickly, Sharrre is a good choice.

Other Social Sharing Widget Resources 

• Addinto
• AddToAny ( Previously: Lockerz)
• Hupso
• Share42

Social sharing buttons are very essential in many occasions. To include almost all social sharing buttons on a web page,we have to use a third party plugin or widget. In that case we should choose best and trusted social sharing widgets. They shouldn't increase the loading delay,confuse the layouts and make the theme design ugly. So This is the top social network sharing button providers. This websites have different types of features.You can add desired sharing buttons on your website or blog easily,because most of above websites support for all platforms.

I would like to know your questions,suggestions and views about best social media sharing widgets.
What social sharing plugin do you use ? Did you not find your social sharing plugin here ? So comment about it using below commenting form. I will add it to above list as soon as i received your comment.