Mashable’s Pete Cashmore on Hot Trends and the Future of Twitter
Founder and CEO of mashable.com Pete Cashmore share his views with TIME about the social media hot trends and the future of twitter.com
I also gives good insights about blogging, social media, location based services etc.
Share This WordPress Plugin To Get More Traffic From Social Media Sites
These days social media is becoming a good source of getting traffic and most of the bloggers are completely dependent on social media sites for traffic rather than search engines. Social media traffic is not very targeted but, there is no doubt that it will give your blog more exposure and that will certainly help you to build the regular readership for your blog. So we cant just over look social media sites for getting traffic.
In order to get more exposure from social media sites like digg, twitter, stumbleupon etc you need to give your users a option that will allow them to share your content on social media sites. Providing this option is very easy if, you are blogging on wordpress platform. There are several plugins available that will help you to add this option in your wordpress blog. I have also mentioned about the sociable plugin in one of my post but, in this post I am going to talk about share this plugin. You can use share this plugin as an alternative to sociable plugin.
Share this plugin looks very good and has very elegant look. In order to use this plugin properly, you need to create an account on sharethis.com . This might look lot of work to you but it does not take much time as the developers of this plugin have done a good job explaining everything about this plugin that you need to know in order to activate and configure this plugin.
Download: Share This WordPress Plugin
Increase Your Blog Subscribers With Subscribe-Remind Plugin
Feeds are good way to get updated content of blogs or sites. As a blogger we should always focus on increasing the number of our blog subscribers. It helps us to increase the reach and visibility of our blog. Subscribe-Remind is an effective wordpress plugin that helps you to turn your blog readers into RSS feed Subscribers.
Subscribe-Remind plugin will place some text at the end of every blog post that invites your blog readers to subscribe your RSS feeds.
This plugin is very easy to install. After downloading, you just need to unzip this plugin and upload it to wp-content/plugins folder and then activate it from “plugins” section.
Download: Subscribe-Remind WordPress Plugin
Facebook Share Count Button To Get Traffic From Social Media
Facebook is the biggest social networking site in the world. Facebook gets million of pages views every day and most of the people who are active on internet have a Facebook account. You can now calculate the power of Facebook by yourself. You can use Facebook to drive traffic to your blog by sharing your new post to Facebook and allowing other blog readers to share your blog posts on Facebook. It can be done very easily by using the Facebook share count button on your blog.
This plugin is used to know how many times your blog post has been shared on Facebook. Also, it makes easy for your blog readers to share your blog posts on Facebook and help you to get more traffic from Facebook.
There are other social media plugins also available that can help you to get more traffic from your blog and if you are not taking there advantage to get more traffic from social media right now then you should start doing it with Facebook share count button.
Download: Facebook Share Count Button