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.

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!

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 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 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.

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

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 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 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.

You can see a live demo here in my blog.

Web Informer Toolbar homepage

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There are a lot of ways to use Taggable and the simplest is by using the bookmarklet. Just drag and drop the bookmarklet below to your bookmarks toolbar and when you want to tag your Facebook friends, just click the bookmarklet.

If you’re using Firefox, you can download and install the Taggable addon.

If you’re using Greasemonkey, you can download its userscript.

How to use Taggable:

For example you’re on Flickr and you found a cute picture and you want to tag your Facebook friends, just click the Taggable button and a new window will open.

1. Click Login with Facebook.

2. Login with your Facebook account. Taggable will ask for your permission to authorize it, click Allow.

3. Start tagging your Facebook friends by typing their names in the box. When you’re done, click Tag Them!

5. Taggable will ask for your permission to publish post or comments without prompting you, click Allow Publishing.

6. (Optional) Provide some details.

7. If you choose “appears in a photo”, you’ll be able to tag your friend on a face in the photo. When you’re done tagging, click Finished Tagging.

NOTE: It will take a few hours before you see it in your Facebook news feed.

How do I remove the tag:

Just like in Facebook, you can also remove the tags of yourself anytime.

1. Go to Taggable and click Login with Facebook.

2. Under show tags for, click Pick a Friend and choose your name.

3. Click Remove Tag.

4. If you want to be notified when you have been tagged by your Facebook friends, click Tell me when I’m tagged! You can choose if you want to receive an email or subscribe to RSS feeds of your tags.

5. If you don’t want to be tagged by your Facebook friends (ever), you can completely remove yourself from the system but be very careful when using this because this action cannot be undone.

Taggable is a really great and unique way to connect people to any web pages. Now, tagging is not only for Facebook photos but to almost anything that you can find on the web.

If you own a WordPress site, you can use their plugin to add Taggable to your website.

Also see: Tag Pictures Of You And Your Friends On Twitter

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1. Social Slider

This plugin adds links to your social networking sites’ profiles in a box floating at the left side of the screen.

If you purchase the Pro version, you’ll have more options to choose from!

You can see a live demo of this plugin at this blog. Just look at the box floating at the left side. Currently, it supports 32 social networking sites plus RSS and Newsletter icons. You can also add your own custom widget.

Visit the plugin homepage.

2. Find Me On

The Find Me On sidebar widget displays icons for all of your social network profiles. Includes 73 Social Network options, 16px or 32px icon size, and three icon styles, including sexy-style.

If you’re familiar with SexyBookmarks plugin and you like its sexy-style, I’m sure you’ll also like Find Me On because it also offers that sexy-style.

You can check out its live demo here.

Before I forget, its Settings page is so cool especially when you have to delete an icon!

3. Social Grid

SocialGrid is a simple widget that makes it easy to add and organize links to your various profiles on the internet.

Originally, SocialGrid is just a part of a theme called Tasty, however, the designer decided to release it as a WordPress plugin so everyone can use it! It supports 25 different social networking sites including popular requests like LinkedIn, Vimeo, and Posterous.

You can check out its live demo here.

Visit the plugin homepage.

4. Social Media Widget

The Social Media Widget is a simple sidebar widget that allows users to input their social media website profile URLs and other subscription options to show an icon on the sidebar to that social media site and more that open up in a separate browser window.

This plugin lets you choose your preferred icon sizes (16×16, 32×32, 64×64) and designs. It supports 8 popular social networking sites plus RSS and Newsletter icons.

Visit the plugin homepage.

5. About Me

About me is a sidebar widget that displays icon links to your profile pages on other social networking sites.

This is a very simple plugin that lets you add mini social networking icons in your sidebar.

You can check out its live demo here.

6. Find Me Elsewhere

This plugin supports 12 social networking sites and offers 4 styles to fit all kinds of blog.

Visit the plugin homepage.

7. Cute Profiles

Cute Profiles is a free WordPress plugin which will bring all your Social Profiles at one location i.e. either left or right side of your blog pages in a well decent floating manner, saving your sidebar or footer space for ads or other important data and widgets.

It’s like Social Slider but it has a different design.

For more information about Cute Profiles, visit its homepage.

8. Follow Me Plugin

Follow Me Plugin allows you to display links to all your social media profiles in one, easy-to-access button or window.

This plugin is very cool! It will place a “Follow Me” button at the side of your blog and when someone click it, a window will popup that displays all of your social profiles with large icons.

Visit the plugin homepage.

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Features of Quick Adsense:

• Absolutely NO author revenue reward or revenue sharing from your Ads (unlike other plugins!)
• Default Ads positioning: assign Ads at the beginning of the post/end of the post/after certain paragraphs/after certain images.
• Flexible Ads placement: insert Ads specifically or randomly anywhere within a post.
• Simple configuration interface: just copy and paste the Ad code, select the alignment, choose the placement/position, and the plugin will then do the rest for you.
• Support any Ad codes
• Display up to a maximum of 10 Ads on a page: Google allows publishers to place up to 3 Adsense for Content on a page. If you are using other Ads, you may display up to 10 Ads.
• Support up to a maximum of 10 Ads codes on sidebar widgets.
• Ads placement on the fly, simply insert <!--Ads1-->, <!--Ads2-->…, <!--RndAds-->, <!--NoAds-->, <!--OffDef--> to a post to accomplish this.
• Tags above can be inserted into a post easily via the additional Quicktag Buttons added to the HTML Edit Post SubPanel.

Here are some screenshots:

Quick Adsense Settings Page

QuickTag Buttons in HTML Edit Post

Quick Adsense is the perfect plugin for those bloggers who are looking for a simple and easy way to insert Adsense or other Ad codes to their WordPress blogs.

Download Quick Adsense

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What is Smart Sharing:

Smart sharing adds a floating box with social media buttons in single posts only. By default, you can pick between Retweet, Facebook, Digg, and StumbleUpon. But you are not limited to these choices because there is an option to add your own custom codes.

Smart Sharing is probably the best “imitation” of the Mashable’s floating share buttons and you can see the live demo here in my blog (it’s on the left-side that scrolls down as you go down).

If you like to install this in your WordPress blog, check this out!

1. Go to http://www.wpbeginner.com/smart-sharing-plugin-for-wordpress/ and enter your email address to download the plugin. Check your email address to confirm your subscription. Once you confirmed your subscription, you’ll receive an email that includes the download link for the Smart Sharing plugin. Download and install the plugin.

2. Once installed, go to the Smart Sharing settings and configure the plugin.

* For more information, click here.

3. What’s good about this plugin is that you can customize it easily even if you’re a beginner like me. You can add other social media network icons like “Google Buzz”, Reddit, ShareThis, etc.

You can add the other buttons/icons in the Custom Codes box. You can use the CSS class “sharer” as a separator. Here’s an example if you want to add the “Google Buzz button”:



4. You may also notice that when you activate the plugin, you’ll see a new box in your post write panel. This box will allow you to have a custom settings for a specific post.

Example, your default settings is: Facebook, StumbleUpon, Retweet buttons are enabled for every posts. Now, if you want to enable the Digg button for a specific post, you can use the Override Global Settings in your post write panel.

Smart Sharing plugin is a really great way to get more votes and traffic from the different social media networks.

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I know most of the bloggers now have their own Facebook account and if not, you should sign up now because I’m sure you don’t want to miss the opportunity to promote your blog to your friends and in fact, I’m getting a lot of traffic from my Facebook buddies! In addition, there are a lot of ways to connect or integrate your blog posts to your Facebook wall and your friends’ feeds and probably, the easiest way is by using a WordPress plugin called WordBook.

WordBook is a WordPress plugin that allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook wall. Your Facebook “boxes” tab will show your most recent blog posts.

How to setup the WordBook plugin to connect to your Facebook account:

1. Download and install WordBook plugin.

2. Go to Settings –> WordBook. You will need a special code for WordBook to work and to do this just click the Facebook button. You’ll be asked if you want to allow WordBook to connect with your Facebook account, click “Get login code for”.

3. To get the code, click Generate. Copy the code and go back to the WordBook plugin and paste the code in the box and click Submit.

4. You’ll see your profile picture and your status message if you copy the code correctly. To finish the setup, WordBook requires authorization to publish stories to your Facebook wall, to do this, click the Facebook button. You’ll be asked if you want to allow WordBook to publish posts or comments without prompting you, click Allow Publishing.

5. If the setup has been successful, you’ll receive a message that says “WordBook appears to be configured and working just fine”.

Here’s how it looks like on your Facebook wall:

Download WordBook

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WordPress Blog (using a plugin)

If you’re using WordPress, you can just download and install this Facebook “Like” plugin so you don’t have to mess with your single.php file. When you install this plugin, it will automatically add the “Like” button at the end of your post. You can see the live demo here in my blog.

The downside of this plugin is that you can’t choose where you want to add the “Like” button because some people want it above the post.

NOTE: I edited this plugin that’s why the faces doesn’t appear when you click the “Like” button.

UPDATE:

I found another plugin that lets you customize the Facebook “Like” button. This plugin is better compare to the first one because there’s an option here where you can change the style of the “Like” button easily like the font, color scheme, the text to display, and more! You can also choose where do you want the button to appear. It also lets you manually add the button to your blog.

Download Facebook Like Plugin

WordPress Blog (without using a plugin)

1. Open the single.php file and copy-paste the following code.

* You may change the height and width of the IFRAME if you like.

Blogger/Blogspot Blog

1. If you’re using the classic template of Blogger, use this code:

2. If you’re using the modern version of Blogger, check out this post from DevFuel.

When you have the Facebook “Like” button installed on your website or blog, your readers who are currently logged in on their Facebook account can easily give a “thumbs up” on your post by just clicking the “Like” button and it will be shared/displayed on their profile.

(via Digital Inspiration)

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Google Buzz is a new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting. It’s built right into Gmail, so you don’t have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch — it just works.

For more information about Google Buzz, check out this short video:

How to add the “Google Buzz” button on your website:

1. Go to http://www.google.com/buzz/stuff?hl=en and click Post to Buzz.

2. Now, choose the style of your button.

3. Copy and paste the code where you’d like the button to appear. You’re done!

If you’re using WordPress, there’s a plugin that you can install on your blog.

WP-Google Buzz allows you to insert the “Google Buzz” button on your blog automatically or manually and it comes with more designs and sizes!

Download WP-Google Buzz

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MyLiveSignature lets you create your personal signature fast, easy, and free! You are not required to register to use their free service but a registered member* has more benefits like:

• Have all your signatures in one place
• Gain access to their downloads and plug-ins for free
• Manage orders and access settings that non-registered users don’t have
• Get special pricing, discounts and offers on their signature art products

* Registration is free of charge.

MyLiveSignature lets you create your personal signature in three different methods:

1. Using the signature creation wizard (Automatic signature) - this is the simplest and easiest method.

2. Draw a signature straight to the screen (Manual) – use your mouse to draw your signature.

3. Using a scanned image – choose this if you want to get the exact copy of your signature. This costs $10.

If you’re using WordPress and you want to include your personal signature to your posts and pages, MyLiveSignature has a free plugin that you can use to easily insert your free or animated live personal signature on your blog.

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If you want to prevent your blog from getting tagged as a Ping Spammer, you can install cbnet Ping Optimizer, a WordPress plugin.

Features of cbnet Ping Optimizer:

Once cbnet Ping Optimizer is installed,

• When you create a new post, your blog will ping and notify all the ping services that it has been updated. This encourages search engines and different blog directories/services to index your updated blog properly.
• When you edit an existing post, it won’t send any unnecessary ping to ping services and saves your blog from getting banned by such services.
• When you post a future post by editing the time stamp, it will ping only when your post appears in future. It won’t unnecessarily ping many times when you schedule posts as WordPress does by default.

From now on, you’ll be more confident to edit and update your blog posts without getting tagged as a Ping Spammer.

Download cbent Ping Optimizer

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