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Adding a Social Stream to Your Blog 6 Great Plugins

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Are you looking for an easy way to share your social networking updates with your blog readers and visitors? Since most of us are members of various social networking sites, a social stream is one of the best ways to show off all of your updates and shared content in an organized manner.
A social stream, often referred to as a lifestream, is a single stream of posts and updates from various social networks. It displays your status updates along with items that you’ve shared like links, images, and videos. Some social streams even display your social interactions with others that you’re connected to.
Today I’m going to share 6 WordPress plugins that can provide you with a social stream on your WordPress blog. Some of these plugins come in the form of a sidebar widget, while others give you a shortcode to use on a post or page of your blog.
Let’s take a look at them.

Feed Them Social

Feed Them Social lets you create three different types of social feeds: Instagram, Facebook Group, and Twitter. In the settings, you’ll need to generate shortcodes for the feeds that you want to use. You can then add those shortcodes to any page or post on your blog; you can use as many shortcodes as you want on that post or page.
Feed Them Social WordPress PluginSo if you wanted to display your Facebook and Twitter feeds on a page called “Social Stream,” you’d generate the two shortcodes and then add them both to the one page. Feed Them Social is really easy to set up and the feeds are really simple – not much formatting. It’s great for anyone that is looking for just a basic social stream for their blog.

Social Media Mashup

Social Media Mashup is a widget that you can add to your blog’s sidebar. It supports Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Flickr, YouTube and custom RSS feeds. Just choose your preferred sources and Social Media Mahsup will combine them into a single social stream, and display them on your blog.
Social Media Mashup WordPress Plugin
In the plugin’s settings you can also choose which set of feed icons to use in your social stream; there are three different styles to choose from.

RebelMouse

RebelMouse is another widget, much like Social Media Mashup. However, it goes a step further and gives you the option to turn any post or page into a social stream. So you can either use the included widget, or you can use a shortcode on one of your posts or pages. Your visitors will even be able to share your posts on Facebook and/or Twitter – right from your blog.
RebelMouse WordPress Plugin
RebelMouse in use on the Ian Roth Studio home page.
Lastly, you can also change your blog’s home page so that it displays your RebelMouse stream. Not only is this a great way to change up the look of your blog, but it makes your blog a lot more social. In order to use RebelMouse on your blog, you’ll need to sign up for a free account on their website. RebelMouse supports Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr.

WordPress Social Stream

WordPress Social Stream is a beautiful, premium plugin that supports 15 social networks and includes 60 feed options. It gives you a single stream for all of your social network updates, and can display them in two different formats: a rotating feed or network wall. Much like RebelMouse, your visitors will be able to share your posts on Facebook and/or Twitter (from your blog).
WordPress Social Stream Plugin
With Twitter posts, visitors also have the option to reply, retweet, and favorite your tweets. Your visitors can even filter your social stream by social network. There are many options included with this plugin, so that you can customize your stream and make it unique to your blog. WordPress Social Stream definitely stands out among the rest of the social stream plugins, and it’s just $14 for a regular license.

Lifestream

The Lifestream plugin can display your social networking updates, shared photos, and shared videos on any post or page; it supports over 50 different sources like Twitter, YouTube, Delicious, and RSS feeds. It stores your entire feed history, not just a week or two.
LIfestream WordPress Plugin
You can also change up the style using custom CSS stylesheets, which is nice because the default look is a bit plain. If you want to extend Lifestream even more, be sure to check out the plugins page on their website. The Lifestream plugin is very similar to Social Timeline, another WordPress plugin that displays your updates from various social networks.

WordPress Social Timeline

Finally, we have WordPress Social Timeline, another premium plugin for creating a stylish social stream in a timeline format. WordPress Social Timeline includes a widget, but you can also add it to any post or page on your blog. You can pull in posts, images, and videos from social networks like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, and Vimeo.
WordPress Social Timeline WordPress Plugin
There are different styles to choose from and you can also choose to display the icons for each social network, right in your stream. Although users can’t share your posts, there is a permalink for each post so that they can go to the original source and interact with it from there. Visitors can filter sort your posts by social network and even change the layout (if you enable it in settings).
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Share Your Blog Posts Automatically 8 Ways

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When you publish a new blog post, how do you get the word out? Do you manually go to several different social networks and share your post, or do you let a WordPress plugin or Web service do the work for you?
Sharing manually is nice because you can add a personal touch to each post, as opposed to sending out the same thing to all of your social networks. However, it’s also a time-consuming process. Some days, you just may not have the time to share your new content manually. This is why many bloggers opt for automatic sharing, which is not only easier, but more convenient.
There are many ways that you can automatically share your content on the Web, and we’ll go over 8 of those methods below.

Jetpack Publicize

Jetpack Publicize
Publicize is part of the popular Jetpack plugin. It’s an obvious choice for automatically sharing your posts on several social networks at once, since many blogs are already using  Jetpack. You can currently share to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and Yahoo. Setup is easy and done via the Sharing sub-menu under Settings. You can choose which posts to share and which social networks to share to on a post-by-post basis.

WP-AutoSharePost

WP-AutoSharePost
This plugin automatically shares your posts to Facebook and Twitter, along with a predefined message. WP-AutoSharePost is a bit more technical than Jetpack Publicize, since you’ll have to create a Facebook app and Twitter app in order to share your posts. However, it supports Bit.ly URL shortening, which is great for tracking your links.
Additionally, the plugin grabs comments from Facebook (related to the post) and adds them to your blog comments section.

1-Click Retweet/Share/Like

1-Click Retweet/Share/Like
1-Click is a plugin with many features, including the option to automatically share your blog posts on 30+ social networks. You can automatically share to: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Delicious, Diigo, Tumblr, Foursquare, and more. You can also customize the message to be included with your shares to Facebook and LinkedIn, on a post-by-post basis.

SocialPublish

SocialPublish
SocialPublish shares your blog posts to Facebook and Twitter as soon as they’re published. You don’t have to create any Facebook or Twitter apps to use this plugin. Simply sign up for a SocialPublish account (it’s an actual Web service) and then connect your accounts. Like Jetpack Publicize, you can choose which social networks to share to for each post. You can also choose to add a custom message, but it’s not required.

NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster

NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster
NextScripts is by far the best plugin for auto-posting to numerous social networks. It supports 18 social networks (more coming soon), including Facebook, Instapaper, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube, and more. You can even post to multiple accounts on the same social network (i.e. multiple Twitter accounts, multiple Facebook pages).
The plugin makes 100% white labeled posts, meaning the posts will look as if you posted them directly – no “shared via NextScripts.com or posted by SNAP for WordPress” messages.

MailChimp Social

MailChimp Social
Social is another plugin that only shares to Facebook and Twitter, but it goes a step further by pulling in reactions (from Facebook and Twitter) and displaying them inline with your regular comments. You can publish to multiple accounts on the same social network, and you can customize the messages associated with your posts. Social requires the use of custom apps in order to share to your accounts.

Dlvr.it

Dlvr.it
Although Dlvr.it is a Web service, as opposed to a WordPress plugin, it’s still an excellent tool to automatically distribute your blog to your favorite social networks. Dlvr.it supports Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Tumblr, and App.net. Once you sign up, simply enter your RSS feed, choose the social network you want to post to, and you’re all done. Dlvr.it also lets you post to Google+ Pages, but only if you upgrade to a Pro or Ultimate plan.

IFTTT

IFTTT Recipes
IFTTT is my preferred method for automatically sharing my blog posts. I use recipes for each of the blogs that I own and for the blogs that I contribute to. Each recipe involves the Feed channel (or you can use the WordPress channel) along with a social channel like Twitter, Facebook, Buffer, and HootSuite. This makes it easy to keep up with all of the blogs that I’m sharing from within a single interface.
My favorite thing about the IFTTT method is that I can send new RSS feed items (new blog posts) to Buffer and HootSuite, two services that let you schedule your posts as opposed to having them all post at the same time. This helps to cut down on noise and makes your shares look more natural.

How Do You Share?

So now that I’ve gone over 8 ways to automatically share your blog posts to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, let us know which method you use. Do you choose to manually share your blog posts, or do you prefer to share them automatically via a method above or another method?
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RSS – Blog Directories

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RSS – Blog Directories

Below is a list of the submission urls for RSS and blog directories that you can submit your blog or RSS feed to & get traffic.

Allforblog
Alltop
Blloggs
Blogarama
Blogadr
BlogCatalog
Blog-collector blog+rss
Blogs-collection
Blogdire
Blog-directory
Blogdirectorysubmission
Blogdir
BlogDirs
Blogdirectory.ws
Blogflux
Blogfolders
Bloggerhq
Bloggernity
Bloghub
Blogginglist
Bloghints
Bloglines blog+rss
Bloglisting
Bloggernow
Blogotion
blogswirl
BlogoWogo
Blogrankings
blogratings
BlogRateDirectory
BlogRollCenter blog + RSS
Blogsranker
Blogsrater
Blogsearch
Blogsitelist
Blogsthatfollow
Blogs.urlz
Blogtoplist
blogtopsites
Blogville
Blogz
boxyblogs
Britblog
Buzzerhut
Chordata Blog+Rss
Ckalari
Conseillemoi
Crayon
Dmoz
EZE
Ezilon
Feedplex blog+rss
freshlinkmedia
FuelMyBlog blog + RSS
FyberSearch
Globeofblogs
goblogz
Google
Gozoof
hottestblogs
Icerocket
Info-listings
irankblogs
Loaded Web
LSBlogs
Ontoplist blog+rss
openblogdirectory
PuppyURL
Readablog
Rateitall
Regator
SmallBusiness.com
Spicypage
Sportsblogs
submitlinkurl
Technorati
Theseoking
TopBlogging blog + RSS
Topsiteswebdirectory
Ubdaily
Weblogs.com
Websandiego
Webworldindex
Wilsdomain
WordPress
Yahoo.com
Zimbo blog+rss
Directories that have Fee or Need Reciprocal Link
AddYourBlog.Com reciprocal link required
Aviva Fee
BlogDirectory.org.uk Fee
Bloggeries Fee
Blogsearchengine Fee
Blogsrating Reciprocal
Bloguniverse Reciprocal
BlogZoop reciprocal link required
BOTW Blog Directory Fee
Kahuki Fee
LazyBlogDirectory Fee
Search 4 Blog Fee
Wutzle reciprocal link required
Multi-Ping-Services
Feedshark
Pingomatic
RSS
4guysfromrolla
Blogdigger
Blogscanada
Chordata Blog+Rss
codango
Crayon Blog+Rss
Feedagg
Feedage
feedbucket
Feedcat
RSSFeeds.org
Feedgy
FeedListing
Feedmailer
Feedplex
Feedsee
Goldenfeed
Icerocket Blog+Rss
Itsmynews
keegy
malatya
Medical-feeds
MyMSN RSS Directory submit feed to ‘search’ for content
newzalert
NGOID News Network
Oobdoo
pingates
plamero
Plazoo
Postami Fee
Political-humor
r-bloggers
Redtram
Rssbuffet
RSSChomp Reciprocal
Rssmicro
Rssmotron
rss-network
Rsstop10 Reciprocal
submitrss.ezedir
Swoogle
syndic8
tools.950buy
Topix
Wingee
Foreign RSS Feeds
Eintragen German only
Linkfeed Danish Only
Overskrift Danish Only
Verzeichnis German only
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