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.