Hey everybody, Syed Balkhi here from WPBeginner and in this video I'll be talking about
must have social media tools & plug-ins for bloggers
these are the tools that I use for my own blog
and I recommend it to everybody else. The link to all these tools can be found
in the video description, alright let's get started the first
on the list is Floating Social Bar this WordPress plugin
adds a horizontal floating share bar to your blog post it makes it really easy
for users to share your content it is by far the fastest
social media plugin available for WordPress I've been using it on my site
for over a year it is totally amazing will
increase your social media shares trust me on that the next tool is
HootSuite it is my social media dashboard
I use it to manage all of my social media accounts
for not just my personal accounts but other site accounts to
it has support for Twitter & Facebook and other platform as well
it gives you single place where you can monitor all of
your mentions direct message Twitter lists ect. its also
great tool for teams because
you don't have to give your team access your Twitter account you can just give
them access
to a certain thing within HootSuite so you don't have your password or anything like that
and it works like a charm I absolutely love
HootSuite it has the ability to schedule posts give you analytics
allows you to assign assignments for your team
totally the best thing ever so start using
Hootsuite. The third tool I use is called Buffer
so you're wondering, buffer allows you to schedule
your different messages to social media for example if you want to schedule a tweet if you want a
Facebook message
and so on you wondering why do I use Buffer when HootSuite offered this
well Buffer makes it really easy and Buffer is a smarter platform for that because I can just use
my browser extension for buffer and say
this is the article that I want to tweet out
figure out the best time to tweet and Buffer will do that for me
makes things really easy as I'm reading I just hit the Buffer button
and the article would go out you know throughout the day
as Buffer sees fit. The fourth tool in my list is
bitly it is a link shortener it allows me to shorten my links
I am using the branded link so I use wpbg.in
I don't use bitly the generic domain
so it has that featured which is really awesome
and it also does tracking for me so I can see
statistics on how many times this shortlink has been
you know clicked which makes it a great tool.
The next tool in my list is Feedly
since google reader is dead I use Feedly now to
manage all of my feeds and the things I want to keep up with so this is where
all of my favorite sites are
all I have to do is open my feedly account and
start reading so this is the first thing I check in the day
when I'm ready to read and I can keep up with what's going on in the industry.
The next tool I have is IFTTT
it stands for if this then that, it allows me to create
recipes for example if an article goes out on list 25
automatically Buffer it to my account so it gets
tweeted out at a time as buffer sees fit it allows you to create a bunch of cool
recipes like that
you have to check out this with your blog because I think you'll really like it
it allows you to automate a lot of things and the last tool
in my list which is definitely one of my most favorite
is the Twitter search tool this is how I find new uses for my blog this is how
I you know engage with other folks and how I can help them
I just used search.twitter.com and
if you have not used search.twitter.com you
have to try it, it is totally amazing you'll be surprised
and this is my list of must haves social media plugins
and tools for bloggers, if you like this video then make sure you hit the
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