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Now a day’s – every blog, forum and website owners uses social share button on their platforms. A blogger or a website owner that doesn't have a share button is not ready for exposure (fact).

In the Wordpress arsenal, we have a lot of social share buttons which are just so awesome but I have selected just 7 awesome plugins that will make your blog sharing experience worthwhile.

Top 7 Social Share Buttons You Just Got To Love

Now without wasting any of our time, let’s start with the show 

Share this: This plugin is one awesome social plugin that as all it takes to be on my number one spot. Recently the developer of the plugin added some cool feature to make it more interesting – and some of the features are;

√ It has the ability to track people that copy your blog post

√ It protects your blog from those lazy bloggers who only copy from other blogs and paste on theirs

√ You get to know how many people share your post and how many people viewed the links.

√ It helps you improve your social media strategy and lots more…

I am using the plugin on my blog and I’ll recommend it to any blogger running a wordpress blog

You can download sharethis plugin here

Sexy bookmark: Also known as Shareaholic is one of the most attractive sharing plugins I have ever seen. It can do almost all what sharethis plugin can do and can even do more. Since the last update, they have added some cool feature to their plugin to make it more active and relevant. Most of the things added are;

√ You have the ability to show related post and recommendation post without installing yet another plugin

√ You can choose the URL shortner you want to use yourself

√ You can track down your social share performance with their simple to understand social analytic tool

The shareaholic plugin can do all that and more .

You can download Sexy Bookmark plugin here

Dig dig: Is a floating share button that helps your reader better share your content. But how does this actually works? Let me just show you … if you check the left side of this blog, you will see a floating share button that looks attractive, right? The name of the floating share button is called Dig Dig.

This plugin is indeed effective – no wonder thousands of blogger use it…

You can download Dig Dig plugin here

Metro style social widget: What this widget simply does is, it allows your readers and fans to subscribe to your fan page easily without them living your blog. Incase you are wondering how it looks, take a peek at my side bar and you’ll see it.

In case you do not like hand coding, this simple light widget is the best for you to increase your fan page.

You can download Metro Style Social Widget here

Flare: Many bloggers are using this share button because it has some unique features that make you wanna love it. Among the wonderful things it can do are;

√ It scores blog posts (from 1 – 100) based on the presence your blog gets socially.

√ It gives you the option to place the widget anywhere you feel like on your blog

√ It also gives you the choice to choose where you want it to appear on your post or page. And it does even more…

You can download Flare Plugin here

Add this: This plugin is one of the oldest and also among the popular social plugins around. It has some good features which I know you’ll like and some of the features are stated below;

√ You’ll know who and who are sharing your contents

√ You’ll know the services they are using to share your content

√ You will also know the content shared the most. And it does even more…

No wonder it is been used by millions of people all round platforms…

You can download AddThis Plugin here

Sketch bookmark: For those who want their mobile users to share their contents, this social share feels perfect for it. The plugin is simple and also beautify your blog because the icons are handmade drawing. It gives you the option to choose which icon to display. It also gives you the option to choose how large you want the icons to display.

You can download Sketch Bookmark Here

The above plugins are my top 7 social share plugins for the year 2013. Hope you find the plugins interesting enough.

MyBlogLog's Recent Readers - this widget can easily be called a hit amongst blog owners; its popularity even managed to convince Yahoo into buying MyBlogLog. The widget lets you see the avatars of recent visitors to your blog, provided they're also members of MyBlogLog.

Mashable - get the latest social networking news from this very site.

Flickr Flash Photo Stream Badge - display images from your Flickr profile with a handy Flash photo stream.

Preview Anywhere - see a live preview of outgoing links in a small popup which activates on mouseover. Some find this annoying, while others might find it useful.

Twitter Badge - if your life is so interesting that everyone must know what you're up to all the time, then a Twitter badge is the ideal counterpart to your blog. It'll proudly displays your recent tweets.

Digg News - display the latest Digg links on your blog. Themeable and fully customizable.

FEEDJIT - real time traffic data directly in your blog's sidebar.

LineBuzz - inline comments for your blog. Very handy for blogs with frequent lively discussions.

Flixn - display a stream directly from your webcam, so your blog visitors can always see what you're up to.

3Jam - lets your visitors send messages to your mobile phone, without them knowing your phone number.

Jaxtr - with Jaxtr, your visitors can actually call you to your mobile phone; again, your number stays private.

LinkedInABox - show off your LinkedIn profile. Perfect for personal blogs.

Box Widget - enable visitors to use box.net's online storage directly on your web site.

Price of gas - displaying gas prices on your blog might seem unnecessary to some, but it's cool if you have a traffic/travel related blog.

iBegin Weather Widget - Display weather information in your sidebar. Just like with Price of Gas, works great with travel-related blogs.

ClockLink - display time in various time zones with these nifty Flash clocks.

Film Loops - display the latest loops from your FilmLoops account.

Daily Painters - display paintings from famous painters on your blog.

WhoLinked - show your visitors which sites have recently linked to your web site. Works with all major blog platforms.

Criteo AutoRoll - displays links to blogs similar to your blog.

Bitty Browser - embed a cute, fully functional mini web browser to your blog.

Leafletter - create a mini website and embed it into your blog.

WikiSeek - search Wikipedia with this simple widget.

FeedCount - show off the number of visitors to your blog with this handy little button.

Technorati Link Count - display the number of links your website has from one of the biggest blog authorities - Technorati.

MyPageRank - another good way to show how "big" your blog is is to show off your Google PageRank.

CheckPageRank - in addition to showing your PageRank, this widget also shows your Alexa ranking.

BlinkxIt - embed a link to related videos directly into your website.

Skype button - display your Skype online/offline status on your blog.

RockYou Horoscope - not something I would personally use, but some people are into horoscope. Hell, most people are into horoscope. Anyway, this widget shows horoscope (doh!) and does it in a nicely designed colorful box.

del.icio.us Tagometer - display how many times have del.icio.us users saved your page.

del.icio.us Linkrolls - this badge shows your latest bookmarks from del.icio.us.

Timelines - need to create a timeline? Seek no further. This widget makes it really easy.

PollDaddy - PollDaddy lets you create beautiful polls in no time, and display them at your blog.

Vizu - another poll-making widget, compatible with all major blog platforms.

AnswerTips - display definitions from Answers.com for various terms on your blog. The definitions are shown in bubbles which are activated on doubleclick.

AnswerBoxes - give your visitors a chance to enter a term themselves, and get a definition from Answers.com

Now Playing - if you got to share your current playlist contents with the world, Sigamp will do the trick. Works with most popular music players, including Foobar, Winamp, iTunes and others.

BuzzBoost - display headlines from your RSS feed on any website.

LibraryThing - show off the latest books you've been reading.

Plaxo Address Book - let your most faithful visitors access their address books direclty from your site.

AuctionAds - a widget that displays auctioned items on eBay, and gives you a percentage of the price paid when sometimes buys an item.

aStore - similar to AuctionAds, only for Amazon. Create a mini-store on your site and receive profit when someone buys an item through your store.

Plazes - show your current location on a Plazes map.

Stockalicious - track your portfolio with this widget, and share it with others. Let everyone know how much money you've lost.

Yahoo! For Good - create a charity badge and ask for donations for a worthy cause.

Giftspace - your friends never know what to buy you for birthday? Let them know what you really want with this nifty widget.

MixMap - see where are the visitors to your MySpace profile from on a map.

Google Map Widget - display a searchable Google Map on your website.

Google Video Search - add a video search form and selected videos to your web site.

Odeo player - display an Odeo player for and podcast right there in your sidebar.