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So you have decided to start a Wordpress blog? Maybe you have been using Wordpress for years and are now ready to drive more traffic to it through the social media. The good news is that you won’t have to know any programming or write a single line of code. There are plenty of powerful social media plugins that enable you to add buttons, widgets, and other tools to your posts to give you readers a chance to promote your top posts. As a blogger, you should pick and choose the communities that you want your readers to submit your posts too. Not every social networking site will work for your blog, so why not focus on those that do? I personally focus on Delicious, StumbleUpon, Twitter, and Facebook. I have tested Google Buzz on a few of my websites, but my main focus is on those 4 services. If you too are interested in making your blog more social friendly and get more traffic from those sites, here are 5 top social media WP plugins you should look at:

Digg Digg: one of the best social media plugins for Wordpress platform. It covers almost any social network that matters. Delicious, StumbleUpon, Google Buzz, and Digg are all covered by this plugin.

Tweetmeme: a simple to use plugin that adds Tweetmeme buttons to your blog. Twitter is one of the best sources of traffic for blogs, which is why this plugin is worth a serious consideration.

Fixed Social Plugin is an amazing little plugin that is worth a try for anyone who’s looking to get more exposure for his/her content on sites such as Facebook, StumbleUpon, and other top sites. Adds social media buttons to your blog in a manner that can’t go unnoticed by your visitors.

Buzrr: a cool shiny plugin for Wordpress that installs a Google Buzz counter on your blog. As I mentioned earlier, it’s tough to say how big of a player Google Buzz is going to be, but it’s worth testing.

WP Greet: a very useful plugin lets you keep track of who’s coming to your blog from where and display a message on the top of your posts accordingly. Useful for targeting your users based on their referring URL. Just watch its memory usage if you decide to install it.

There you have it. 5 powerful social media plugins for Wordpress that give your readers everything they need to promote your posts. Please feel free to add your favorite plugins below.