The best wordpress plugins for social engagement and community list

Every year I share my own experiences using WordPress plugins to run Maximize Social Business to help you make your own website more social media optimized, SEO friendly, and even help convert more of your visitors into new leads.

Define highly customizable sign-up forms by choosing predefined styles or creating your own style. Live previews of the final project as it's being created. Include sign-up forms in popups and define when it will be displayed. Set up automatic subscription sign-up with checkboxes when users take action on a website (leave a comment, enter a contest, take part in a survey, etc.).

So you have invested thousands of dollars on what you hoped to be a killer website and/or blog. Yet something is still missing. You are still lacking social engagement. You may be creating the right content but you are making it too difficult for people to share it with their friends and community.

Add the following social media plugins to your WordPress website to boost your social media presence. Each one helps to promote your content on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Your readers can easily share content that they like with their friends with just a single click.

There are over 350 WordPress plugins tagged "Share" in the WordPress plugin directory. But most of them, let's be honest, fall short, with the exception of a handful of excellent winners. I'd say there are three facets to social integration: Engagement, Self Promotion, and Viral Value.

The very survival of any blog lies in the hands of its readership. No readership, no blog; I am sure we can all agree on that. There are numerous ways you can cultivate an active community around your blog that goes way beyond simple traffic generation.