Online websites and blogs are constantly struggling to achieve more traffic and attention. One of the most efficient methods to gain both new and return visitors is enabling social networks engagement achieved by a simple installation of social share plugins for WordPress. Adding a variety of social buttons next to blog-posts, articles, pages and rich content presentations, encourages users to act as private distributors. People like to share useful information, impressive or funny images and videos and other stuff they find fascinating with friends and acquaintances with similar interests. However, people do not like to waste time nor special efforts, especially when it involves online actions; thus, as a site owner you must provide your visitors with a fast and easy way of sharing.
There are many different social share WordPress plugins that provide multiple social and analytic tools. The plugins are designed to assist publishers and advertisers with engaging their audience and analyzing social and sales data in order to develop effective future strategies.
AddThis and ShareThis are ranked as two of the best sharing platforms offering social share plugins for WordPress. View their main features and the nuances that distinguish them.
ShareThis
ShareThis is a social platform connected to numerous social networks and sites, portals, publishing tools, mailing systems and many other web services in different languages and locations. The plugin and sharing tools, which may be embedded on any webpage, are used by thousands of brands, blogs and websites.
ShareThis offer customizable buttons in various styles, sizes and with optional features such as social reach number display (the number of shares or tweets), Hover-bar, publisher key etc. The buttons can be displayed in either vertical or horizontal orientations.
ShareThis plugin can be downloaded and installed either automatically or manually. Once the installation is completed there are a few setting options to customize and the site is all set for socializing. ShareThis services include reporting and analyzing tools such as Google analytics and SQI score.
ShareThis supports over 120 social channels amongst are the popular WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Google +1, Yahoo, Tumblr, Delicious, Orkut, Pinterest, Blogger, Myspace and more.
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AddThis is one of the largest social and analytic platforms. In addition to its efficient sharing tools, it offers friendly consumer-engagement tools and special services for advertisers, publishers and brands. AddThis supports practically any kind of website including social share plugin for WordPress.
The social buttons may be modified according to individual preferences. AddThis integrates 330 social channels like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Emails, Buffer, Care2, Flaker, CiteULike and many other networks and social sites.
AddThis includes an automatic translation to more than 70 languages, a welcome bar feature and trending content box and a few advanced features for paid media, like campaign management, social Ad units, audience targeting etc. The AddThis plugin is used by approximately 14 million domains.
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Conclusion
AddThis and ShareThis both have great social share plugins for WordPress with valuable analytic services. AddThis is more popular and much larger than ShareThis, but it has two main weaknesses, which ShareThis has managed to solve successfully.
- AddThis inserts the buttons below the post while ShareThis allows high flexibility.
- If you have more than one website and you want separate reports and statistics for each, you must open a few accounts, when using AddThis. ShareThis, on the other hand, allows you to track multiple domains with detailed statistics.
Hi Yael, thanks for featuring us! AddThis does let you monitor analytics across different domains, and you can customize where your buttons go. Do you have an email so I can send you the details? 🙂
Hey lfdy thx for the comment. I was going to avoid addthis for missing that feature. I would definetely be interested in details, too 🙂 And thx for the article Yael! Peace from Cologne, Germany.