The buzz across the web and all the Search Engine Conferences for the last couple of years has been social media marketing or SMM. The social media platform can be a very powerful tool for your blog, feed or website.
My favorite social media plugin is ShareThis! for WordPress. ShareThis! actually started (and still is) a widget that can be customized to your liking and placed on your website or blog. With WordPress you still have to go to the web and register for a ShareThis! Account and the plugin makes it easy to include the button in your content.
I like ShareThis! for a few reasons…
- It allows for interaction with all the top social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Stumble Upon, Technorati etc.
- It also has an email a friend function.
- Reporting features in the ShareThis! web panel.
- Compact.. it doesn’t add 25 little buttons to your content.
- Within Worpress.. very easy to manually configure where you want your ShareThis! Button to be placed if you don’t like the auto placement.
