Great content needs to be seen and, ideally, voted on then shared. After spending the time creating the content, spend a bit more gearing up the page so that it can so it will receive optimal social media votes. We have created a one stop shop for all your social media site buttons and badge needs.
Site Specific Buttons
If your website is tailor-made for a specific social news site, try one of these buttons/badges. These buttons allow visitors to vote quickly and easily if they deem the content worthy.
Reddit Buttons
The Reddit button allows for visitors to vote directly for your site (and see the current # of votes) on Reddit.
Reddit WordPress Plugin
Adds a Reddit badge to every post on WordPress blogs.
Get the official Digg badge that allows visitors to see a story’s current # of Digg while making it quick and easy to vote.
This online generator kicks out code  for custom Digg buttons.
‘DiggThis’ WordPress Plugin
This plugin displays a digg badge on your WordPress blog only if the story has been dugg!
With this JSON powered Tagometer Badge, you can easily show both tags and number of saves.
Allow others to follow you on Twitter with this button.
These are a few slick looking Twitter icons to help turn traffic into followers.
Bring Twitter conversation to your blog. This WordPress plugin brings tweets to your post right into your comments!
Adding this ‘Stumble It!’ button to your site makes submitting your content to StumbleUpon easier for vsitors.
An easy icon that allows visitors to vote on any Yahoo! Buzz-worthy content.
The Sphinn badge will shoot visitors over to the Internet marketing social news site.
This Sphinn button visitors quickly submit your post to Sphinn.
WordPress PlugIn: SphinnIt Button
It adds a “Sphinn It” button to your posts on WordPress blogs and the position of the button is also fully customizable.
This code allows visitors to Mixx your content right from the page.
This widget allows visitors to cast votes, buy clicking straight from the page.
These Tip’d buttons make it easy for readers to submit or Tip your financial stories on Tip’d.
These badges allow for easy voting on Shoutwire for any of your current stories/posts.
The “Seed Newsvine” link on the article pages of your news site or blog will allow your users to easily spread links to your site throughout the Newsvine community.
Combination Badges
These badges incorporate a variety of social media news networks so users are able to vote for on a variety of social sites. If your site does not generate traffic that is specific to a social media news niche, then one of these might be the best option for you.
This plugin lets you pick and choose which social badges to display on your WordPress blog. Simply check the social si(s) of your choice and you are ready to go!
ShareThis  not only features all of the major social media news sites, but also Facebook, MySpace, AIM, as well as Email and through text messaging to mobile devices.
This badge, allows voting on the major social sites and gives you the ability to customize the menu colors to match your site.
Makes it easy for your visitors to bookmark and share your content with others on all of the major social sites This badge is very minimalistic and offers a very clean and simple design.
RSS Icons
These icons are essential to turn social media traffic into repeat visitors. RSS icons should be placed prominently on your site so users can easily subscribe to your content. Many times site specific RSS icons can help you gain additional followers.
An optimal position for RSS-icons is the area that surrounds your logo and the top area of your site. The lower an RSS-icon is placed, the less subscribers you’ll be able to get. Also of interest, should RSS buttons be modified? And if so what works and what hurts?
It’s reasonable to make sure that visitors can identify and recognize RSS quickly and easily, this is why the standard RSS-icon is used in most cases.
Easily create RSS buttons for your site with this tool from TopRankBlog.
The .zip file contains around 15 ‘alternative’ RSS icons in JPEG and high-res PNG formats.
Also of interest, should RSS buttons be modified? And if so what works and what hurts? SEOmoz takes us on a little lesson on why readers often prefer the original orange logo button.
Embeddable Widgets
Just cut and paste the generated code into your site and your specified reddit.com feed will be displayed and updated as new stories bubble up.
You can easily display Digg news on your site, now with many different flavors to choose from:
- Top News (can be sorted by topic)
- Digg Stats (dugg/submitted) by user
- Digg stories (popular/upcoming) from a site
Display your tagged items on your blog with this widget.
Bring your conversations to your site. This allows you to bring your Twitter stream to your site/blog.
This widget creator lets you add Mixx content to your site. Simply select your theme, add content, and set a few options and you’re on your way!
Easily organize all your feeds into one widget that can be placed on your site.
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I like using social media buttons on my site, but there are some that make site to load very slowly. Twitter button is in vogue and that's the only one I use these days. I want to add other buttons but do not want everything to be cluttered all over. That's why I'm considering AddThis button.
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