Top Third party Social media Sharing plugins for blogger

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For any blogger social sharing activities are extremely important on their blog because it increases readers. In most of the cases the traffic generated by the search engines will be slightly more than the traffic form social media sharing.
There are many examples for the content that goes viral through social media. This shows the importance odf social sharing options on any blog. Blogger has its own default sharing buttons. But if you want to make visitors more engaging and provide more easy way to share content, it will be more beneficail to your blog.


There are many sharing plugins provided by 3rd parties that are easy to use and having wide sharing options and providers. Here I am going to discuss top third party plugins for social media sharing on blogger.

1.Sharethis

Sharethis provides easy to install plugin for bloggers. You can send links to your post via email or AIM and to add your post to many social bookmarking sites, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, del.icio.us, and more. There are many varieties of button styles to display. You can simply hover the sharethis button to open a JavaScript within the post for choosing any of the sharing options without going away from your page. Sharing buttons are highly customizable. There is an option to add a simple “on” and “off” switch allows users to enable or disable automatic sharing and re-share or delete share done by them.

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There is detailed analytics abut sharing activity on your site. simply go to the  dashboard an see sharing activities made by visitors in detail.

Features

• Lightweight sharing buttons
• Fully customizable
• Quick and easy sharing
• Auto share on/off options
• Insights and Analytics 
• Mobile Sharing
• Real-Time Trending Content 
• Continually share or delete shares without leaving the site
• Track text copy and paste activity on pages

2.Addthis

Addthis No.1 sharing plugin which is widely used by many websites. The sharing buttons are fully compact and easy to use. This can be integrated with blogger through simple clicks. This sharing tool can be customized to display any sharing buttons and follow buttons.

Features

• Integrated with over 300+ services (Facebook, Twitter and more)
• 70+ languages automatically localized
• Share multiple content types (pages, widgets, images, video, and more)
• Works with your pages (Javascript, Flash, and HTML)
• Understand sharing across Likes, Tweets, URL copies, and more
• Track sharing that occurs outside of plugins via copy and paste from address bar
• Track text copy and paste activity on pages

3. Addtoany

Add to any is a simple sharing widget with simple hover effect. This plugin displays the available options for sharing while hovering the add to any button.
The sharing providers can be customized with choosing from hundreds.

Features

• Simple and easy to use
• Customize sharing provider's list
• Fast loading

4.Shareholic

It makes easy for your visitors to share your site's content via social networks, email, blogs, IM, and more. It won’t slow or block your pages from loading.

Cool animation on mouse hover.

What you think? Any other plugins on your mind? Then comment below.