As the social media gets more and more popular it is just but normal that all WordPress users may have some sort of “sharing” button installed. These buttons when clicked upon will then show how many times your post or pages have been Tweeted, Shared, Plus One’d and more. These gives us an idea of how much impact we are having on that particular posts or page. However, if you want to look at a bigger picture, you can see each posts individually, which is a very tedious task, or you can see them all in one “screen” by using the Social Metrics free WP plugin.
What is Social Metrics WordPress Plugin?
Social Metrics is a new WordPress plugin that allows you to monitor your site’s social impact. It adds a screen in your dashboard where you can see all your WordPress posts and exactly how many times they have been shared across Twitter, Facebook, Google +1, Google Buzz, StumbleUpon, Digg and LinkedIn. The cool part is that you can “click” on any of them to share your posts, without having to go to each post individually. If you see any posts or page that you feel has not been “shared” enough, you can do it right there.
Main Features Include:
- Track how your content is shared on Twitter, Facebook, Google +1, Google Buzz, StumbleUpon, Digg and LinkedIn
- Find out exactly how many times your posts/pages have been shared across these social networks
- Browse to find out which posts or pages have gone viral over the social web
- Use the information to find out which social media websites should you promote your content the most, and which ones needs some revamping
- Access Social Metrics directly from your WordPress Admin Dashboard
- Easily filter the displayed output by categories and by month
- Quickly switch between posts and pages
- Choose how many posts you wish to see at a time
- Seamlessly share posts/pages over the social networks from right within the Social Metrics Dashboard
As you can see, this plugin is a nifty little tool that can help you see how your WordPress site is doing on the Social Web. It requires no technical knowledge and uses very little resources. Give Social Metrics (WordPress repository) a try and let me know how you like it. Perhaps, you can find some other “hidden” benefits form it, and if you do, why not share it here with us?
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DiTesco, looks like a really neat plugin! It’s the first one that I’ve seen like it. One question – in the screenshot it shows Facebook likes – does the plugin show you Facebook shares too?
Thanks for the heads up on this one.
Hi Ileane. Thanks for quickly heading over here. The FB share is not (yet) included in this plugin and maybe the developer is working on it. Anyway, if you do give it shot, let me know how “useful” this tool can be.. thanks for stopping by
Hi, DiTesco.
Cool plugin. I sent your article to my boss so he work at adding that to our WordPress blog when he has time. That’s always bad thing with my blogging though. I always have to depend on my boss when it comes to tweaking and updating our blog because I am an absolute lame-brain when it comes to technical stuff.
Thanks for letting us know about this.
Hope my boss gets on this one soon.