Add-ons / Plugins, WordPress — June 13, 2010 1:18 pm

Awesome Social Sharing Toolbars For Your Blog Or Website

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One of the best ways to drive traffic to your blog is by submitting your posts to different social networking sites and the easiest way to do this is by adding social networking buttons on your blog so your readers can easily submit your blog posts. However, if you want a more effective way to promote your website’s contents, you should try using a social sharing toolbar.

Social sharing toolbars display a static toolbar on your blog or website, which may contain search bar, RSS feeds, recent posts, social networking links and many more which can really increase page views and drive more traffic to your blog.

Here is a great list of social sharing toolbars for your blog or website:

1. Meebo Bar

The Meebo Bar displays a toolbar at the bottom of your blog/website which contains social networking links, Facebook Fan Page and “Like” button, RSS feeds, and many more! Your site visitors can also chat with their IM friends from Yahoo!, Facebook, MSN, Twitter, Google Talk and other networks.

Meebo Bar

The Meebo Bar works on any websites or blog using Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type, or self-hosted WordPress blogs. Blogs hosted at WordPress.com are not supported at the moment.

Meebo Bar live demo/homepage

 

2. Wibiya Web Toolbar

Wibiya displays a toolbar at the bottom of your blog/website. It allows you to integrate a host of cool web applications directly onto your website such as translator, 3D photo galleries, direct Facebook and Twitter connection, social networking links, live notifications, random post, real time users, and many more!

Wibiya Web Toolbar

The Wibiya Web Toolbar works on all the popular platforms.

Wibiya Web Toolbar live demo/homepage

 

3. AddThis Sharebar

AddThis Sharebar displays a toolbar at the bottom of your website/blog. It uses the AddThis platform to share your website’s contents to the social web. Aside from the social networking buttons, it also adds a search bar.

AddThis Sharebar

AddThis Sharebar live demo/homepage

 

4. Gigya Toolbar

The Gigya Toolbar displays a toolbar at the bottom of your website/blog. It includes rich features including Facebook Fan Page button, recent tweets, search bar, social networking links, subscribe to feed, and many more!

Gigya Toolbar

Gigya Toolbar works on all the popular platforms.

Gigya Toolbar live demo/homepage

 

5. Apture Site Bar

Apture Site Bar displays a toolbar at the upper part of your website/blog. Once you install it, users can can highlight any phrase to get more information right on the page.

Apture - Turn Highlights Into Pageviews

It also lets your brand shine by letting you upload your own logo/title.

Apture Site Bar

It also includes a search bar that lets your readers find additional information from your site like Wikipedia and YouTube all without leaving the page.

Apture Search Bar

Apture Site Bar live demo | homepage

 

6. Extendy

Extendy displays a toolbar at the bottom of your website/blog. The toolbar contains social networking links, search bar, Twitter feeds, and recent blog posts.

Extendy

Extendy live demo/homepage

 

7. Web Informer Toolbar

The Web Informer Toolbar displays a toolbar at the bottom of your website/blog. It is very simple yet powerful and user-friendly. It displays most of the popular social bookmarking sites including Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon, etc.

Complete List Of Web Informer Services

You can see a live demo here in my blog.

Web Informer Toolbar homepage

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I prefer the TurnSocial bar because they have Yelp as an an app. I use it on our restaurant websites and Yelp carries reviews.

I tried Meebo and Wibiya and neither one had it..I was pretty surprised. and disappointed since I heard good things about Meebo.

I have just installed web informer bar on my blog and find it very attractive and useful. Thanks.

Very useful post and some of the toolbars are new ones, something I had never heard of before. Great!

Thanks for the tip, Jenna!

I'm currently using the Meebo bar, but I find it a bit short on apps. I've bookmarked insite and will check it out later :)

you can use insite
and create a free WEB toolbar

they have a faster script and over 10000 apps to choose from

here : insite.govirtualweb.com

Thanks for this post! I've been using the Skysa toolbar for a while, but they are not free anymore. So my search continues, thanks for making it easier for me :)

Haven't heard about Skysa toolbar. I'm going to take a look at it ;) Thanks for enjoying this post :)

Great list - these guys all make awesome products. I'd love to hear your feedback on the TurnSocial bar - we have a WP plugin as well, but we're focusing our efforts more on building a valuable tool for local and small business websites. As of writing this, we're still unique in helping our customers bring in local content based on their street address - check it out if you get a minute and let me know what you think!

Thank you for that wonderful info! Don't worry, I'd take a look at TurnSocial Bar :)

The only problem is that most of these make other jQuery plug-ins stop working like Lavalamp Menu and Fancybox. The only ones I found no issues with were Apeture and Web Informer. Extendy kept giving me an error when I tried to sign up for it, that may be fixed soon though, who knows.

Yes, actually you're right about that. That's why I'm only using web Informer because it doesn't cause any problems to my other plugins. :)

cool post...i got mine in my site...but i did it on my own...nothing compared to yours... :)

I really love your site because aside from your cool articles, the theme you're using is so unique because you made it yourself right? I also love the social sharing toolbar on your site. Why don't you make it as a plugin so other bloggers can use it too? :P

This is amazing! These are all the exact plugins which I have been looking for for forever. THANK YOU! :-) :-)) :-D :laugh: ;-) 8-) :yes: :chic:

Wow! Really? I'm so happy I helped you! :) You're very welcome!

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