If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? The same idea can be paid to your blog content. If no one shares it and no one reads it, does your post really matter at all?

If you don’t have social sharing buttons on your blog, you make it difficult for your audience to spread your content to their social networks. Our quick tutorial below shows you how to get social media buttons for your WordPress blog with the Sexy Bookmarks WordPress plugin.

Do you have any questions about how to install the plugin? We’d love to help. Let us know in the comments!

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Want to make your content easier to share? Try Shareaholic on your blog.

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Shareaholic’s WordPress plugin will help your audience share your content, driving new site visitors and subscribers to your blog from their social networks. But in order for content to be shareable, publishers first need to make sure that their content is interesting, valuable, timely, and most of all – easy to discover.

There are many other WordPress plugins that will pair nicely with Shareaholic to achieve your traffic goals. Here are 4:

1. Livefyre

Don’t make your readers think: Make it easy for them to engage with your content using a plugin that doesn’t require filling out a form to drop a comment. Livefyre is a comments plugin for WordPress that enables your readers to easily comment on your posts. Simple to install, Livefyre offers seamless usability and showcases the comments from your readers in an elegant way.

2. All-in-one SEO pack

Make your posts easy to discover. The All-in-One SEO pack helps you optimize your posts for on-page SEO, offering one easy place for you to add a page title, meta description and meta tags for each piece of content you create.

3. Editorial Calendar

Plan posts that your audience will love, and share. The editorial calendar plugin helps publishers organize content submitted from multiple writers, guest bloggers or employees. The drag-and-drop functionality makes it simple to re-schedule posts in drafts and publish them when you believe they will perform the best.

The WordPress Editorial Calendar Screen Cast from Zack Grossbart on Vimeo.

4. Max Buttons CTA Plugin

If you’re a publisher running a blog for a business, you want to drive your visitors to take an action based on the information you’ve given them in the post. A call-to-action button or CTA button is a great way to do this.

With a simple one-line piece of code, you can paste a call-to-action button right into your HTML tab at the bottom of your post.

What plugins do you use with Shareaholic? Let us know in the comments!

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Help your readers share the content on your blog.

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With the holiday season around the corner, it’s that time of the year again to let your friends and family know what gifts are on your mind. Shareaholic has now made it easier to direct your friends and family towards exactly what you want.

Use Shareaholic’s Amazon Wish List integration with your browser plugin, and you can add your favorite products from anywhere on the web to your wish list right from Shareaholic.

First: Grab the right plugin for your browser. To add the Amazon Wish List to your list of social networks you’ll share to with your browser plugin, go to your Shareaholic profile page. (http://shareholic.com/yourusername.) Scroll down to “Services” and click “edit.”

Among the choices on the next page, you'll see a section labeled "Bookmarking." Select Amazon Wish List.

To make sure that the wish list shows up among your top choices when you shop, be sure to set your menu order so it’s among the top sites.

Shareaholic lets you add items to Amazon Wish List from just anywhere, so you don’t have to add additional buttons to the bookmarks bar in your web browser. Keep it simple, clean and tidy!

What products will you add to your wish list this holiday season? Let us know in the comments!