Creating viral traffic for your blog is essential to getting more eyeballs on your site. With sites like Digg, Furl, and the dozens of other similar services appearing every day, it’s really beginning to be apparent that social and viral traffic is where it’s at. If you don’t know what social bookmarking is I suggest you read up about it on Wikipedia. It’s really the next wave of marketing for online marketers and bloggers. If you’re a blogger using Wordpress you will definitely want to check out these plugins for increasing the traffic to your site.

1. The first plugin I recommend is the Tell-A-Friend script by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan called WP-EMail. This plugin allows people to easily tell their friends about your site, it also keeps a log of the people who have told other people through email. You can see a sample image of the viral script here.
2. You’ve probably heard of Digg I assume, and if you haven’t then you need to read up on it. There is a kick-butt plugin for Digg and you can see it on this site underneath every post. Digg Integrator is simply one of the better Digg plugins available. As opposed to the other Digg plugins I especially like this one because it allows you to select a graphic to display when you have zero diggs in order to hopefully get that article dugg. It’s really easy to use and can be extremely effective.
3. Social Bookmarking is growing fast, if you don’t know what it is read this social bookmarking article. In it I refer to the plugin I am using on this site called Chicklet Creator 2 by TwisterMC. With so many new social bookmarking services springing up, the drop-down feature really is a nice one for those who want less clutter on their blog.
4. Tagging is a convenient way to organize your blog posts based on keywords. It’s also a great way to get traffic from sites like Technorati which currently tracks 35.3 Million weblogs! I use Jerome’s Keyword Plugin on this site which actually creates an entire tag system as well as places meta keywords into my header. My site pings Technorati every time there is a new post and Technorati sees and indexes my post based on the tags I use.
5. There’s another plugin by TwisterMC that I like is for managing all those RSS buttons. In fact, there are so many RSS buttons now I have just decided to create a separate RSS page for them. (Edit: I have since done away with this page, however it’s still a fantastic plugin.) The plugin is called Chicklet Creator Classic and works similar to the Chicklet Creator 2.

There you go, 5 kick-butt Wordpress Plugins you definitely should be using to increase the viral traffic to your blog.

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If you run any kind of blog then you should be using the power of social bookmarking. Basically, social bookmarking is a way for people to bookmark and share a web page with others. There are many social bookmarking services which allow users to add web pages to their bookmark list. Some of these include Furl, Del.Ico.Us, and Spurl to name a few.

As a blog owner the benefits of having someone add a page from your site to their social bookmark list is that your web page be search-able in the entire bookmark directory (which is available to all members of the service). In addition, people will also be inclined to share it with others! A fantastic way to build your blog’s audience and increase exposure.

The easiest way for someone to add a page from YOUR website to their social bookmark service is to provide them with a special link. This special link will be connected to the service they use and when clicked on it easily adds YOUR page to their bookmarks. With over 40 different services available to manage social bookmarks it’s a bit inconvenient to add links for all of them. That’s where Social Bookmark Plugins come in handy.

If you’ve been in the blogosphere for any amount of time you’ve probably seen these images at the end of articles and posts.

These are links to social bookmarking services. If you want to add these little icon images to the bottom of your blog posts there is a great plugin for Wordpress called Sociable that will do the job.

However, I never liked those little icons, I found them distracting, annoying, and didn’t want to add them to my blog. Well, now I don’t have to! Recently I found a fantastic plugin that allows you to do a dropdown menu for all the social bookmark sites. The plugin is for Wordpress and is called Chicklet Creator 2. I really like the dropdown much better, it’s easier to read and doesn’t confuse your visitor like 25 little icons on your page would.

I also found a Social Bookmark Creator which creates the HTML code for either a list or drop-down menu. As opposed to the Wordpress plugin, this creator allows you to create the menu for Blogger, Wordpress, or Moveable Type and is done with HTML instead of a plugin.

If you aren’t signed up for a social bookmarking site yet I recommend you try out Furl. Then start playing around, and hey, while you’re at it why not bookmark a few of your favorite articles from this site!

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