You see them on websites all over the place, from news sites to online retailers. They are usually a cluster of small icons (called social sharing links or social bookmarks) found at the bottom of an article or web page that the website’s proprietor will be happy to share.

Clicking anyone of these links allows visitors to the site to easily share a link to a website, web page or blog article with their friends and associates, whether it is via direct email or cross-posting to Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, Google, Windows Live, MySpace or any other networking sites. (See example below this post)

These days, with so many online community and sharing services being used by so many people, you have to seriously wonder about the potential business opportunities you could be missing out on by not including several of these links on your site.

There are a number of public sharing services available that make the addition of these links to a website a pretty straightforward task. Plus these links can be programmed to link back to your site’s home page, a specific interior page, blog article, or even product promotion, which could prove to be a good revenue stream.

Most of these services also provide stats, will allow you to see and assess the activity the Social Sharing Links are generating.

If you are interested in discussing a link program for your website, please feel free to contact me at any time to discuss. (simon@seethroughweb.com)

Great tools to help with SEO.

There are some excellent seo plugins for Wordpress. We typically use Rankmath or Yoast. When you’re editing a page in Wordpress they give each page a score provide feedback about how to improve the search engine optimization  of the page.If you want an independent tool for digging deeply into your sites seo, including keyword research, seo audits, competitor analysis and more, check out
SEM Rush.

 

Looking for excellent Wordpress hosting? Check out Kinsta. Easy to use, fast, and secure.

2. Use a security plugin

Wordpress security plugins can do a lot to protect your site: from blocking multiple attempts to break into your website to scanning for modified files and folders. Most are free, some have a relatively inexpensive paid Pro option which can be worth it for greater peace of mind.

We use Wordfence on most sites ourselves, but there are other great security plugins out there like Sucuri and iThemes Security Pro.