Social Media plugins can not only save your time and increase productivity, but they are also essential to drive traffic to your blog. Without it no matter what you write, if there is no one to read it, it wouldn’t matter.

We have browsed the wordpress plugin directory and made a top ten Social Media Plugin list, which we’re sure would be very helpful for any blogger.

Sociable:

Shows several one click social bookmarking icons of various websites for easyshare. Would place the icons at the bottom of every post for easy vote and submission. You can customize it too by choosing which icon to keep.

Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button:

Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. The button comes with AddToAny’s customizable Smart Menu, which places the services visitors use at the top of the menu, based on each visitor’s browsing history.

Individual service icons let you optimize your blog posts for specific social sites. Choose from over 100 individual services.

• AddToAny Smart Menu
• Individual service links (like Sociable)
• Includes all services
• Menu updated automatically
• WordPress optimized, localized (English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Danish, Catalan, Russian, Belarusian)
• Google Analytics integration
• Many more publisher and user features

Sharethis:

The ShareThis WordPress plugin provides a simple way for users to add your post to many social bookmarking sites, or to send a link to your post via email, AIM, Facebook, Twitter and more.

You can customize the ShareThis widget on your site as well as register for a dashboard that will track share events and provide reporting.

I Love Social Bookmarking plugin:

Another simple and awesome plugin to share your posts on different social media websites. You can customize its outlook and usubility according to your needs.

Notable:

Another plug-in to add social bookmarks to your post.

Anti-Social:

Its another simple plug in which is used to add a no-follow attribute to your posts, which is good for SEO. Sharing option on different websites is also available.

Gregarious:

Gregarious is a social bookmarking plugin that integrates the new Digg API and Alex King’s Share This plugin, as well as the Reddit button and Feedburner’s Feedflare into one powerful, easy to use package. It offers the following features:

• Digg button
• Digg extra (advanced template tags)
• Share This
• Reddit button
• Feedburner FeedFlare
• PostBadge

SphinnIt Button:

Sphinn is a social media site that targets internet marketers and search related topics. Your visitors could easily share your posts using this plug-in

Digg This:

Digg.com is the most renowned social eMedia present on the Internet, with million of users. This pluging would install a “digg this” or “submit” button to your every post, so that diggers visiting your post could vote for it. Once you get a high number of digging, your story would make it to their front page, which would bring thousands of visitors to your blog instantly.

WP Super Cache:

This plugin will help your server to handle the traffic. WP Super Cache reduces the load on your server by delivering pages without accessing your hosting service, which would save your bandwaidth and time. It would load up the pages from the cache to save up your time.

Happy Bookmarking