It is great to have your own WordPress website and post news, articles and/or images for your readers. Your content will look good on your WordPress website and perhaps even mobile phones and tablets but what about the Social Media networks? How will your content look when this is shared by you or your readers on Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc.
Will the images have the right dimensions? Will the excerpt show correctly? Pairing your WordPress website with social networks is important enough to invest some time in optimizing your content for Social Media. Luckily there are some great and useful pluginsto be found in the WordPress.org catalog.
WordPress Social Sharing Optimization
With the WPSSO plugin you will make sure social websites present your content correctly. It really does not matter how your content will be shared, through buttons, browser add-ons or pasted URL’s, your content will always look great and easy to read. With the advanced social management included in this plugin you have control over the information social websites need.
The WordPress Social Sharing Optimization (WPSSO) plugin not only led you have control over the information but it will also improve Google Search ranking, social engagement and click-through-rates on popular social networks like Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Tumblr and many more.
With this plugin there is no need to add extra sharing buttons so if your WordPress website already has great looking sharing buttons, the way the shared content will look on the social networks is controlled by this great plugin. The WPSSO plugin can be used by itself or in combination with any of your favorite social sharing buttons. Although the free version of this plugin will do everything you need, there are extra features with the PRO version which can be purchased for $30. Check the plugin page for extra details.
WordPress SEO by Yoast
Many WordPress website owners already have the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin installed for Search Engine Optimization purposes so your content will be shown correctly in Google, Bing and other search engines. The plugin also has a functionality for creating XML Sitemaps which will help content optimization even further.
The SEO plugin by Yoast also has a feature for optimization for Social Media which will guarantee your shared content looks great on social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Google+ (and lots more). The plugin will use the Facebook Open Graph which helps you to tell Facebook what type of content you share, what the locale is, what the canonical URL of the page is, the name of the site, what the page is about and which images should be shown in Facebook. For Twitter is will use the Twitter cards and Google+ actually will accept all Open Graph information.
WPSocial
The WPSocial plugin will help you with the social SEO for your WordPress website to optimize your content for a real social boost in Google rankings. The WPSocial plugin will add Facebook Open Graph, Twitter Cards and Google Rich Snippets to your website. According to the developers WPSocial is the only plugin which include ALL the different types of microdata which are supported by Google.
The WPSocial plugin can work together with the SEO plugin you have already been using such as WordPress SEO by Yoast, All in One SEO and any other SEO plugin. The plugin will add all the proper meta tags from existing content so there is actually no need for a manual setup. The free version can be downloaded from the WordPress.org catalog but to get even more feuatures you can always go PRO for $47.
WP Facebook Open Graph Protocol
The WP Facebook Open Graph Protocol plugin will add proper Facebook Open Graph Meta tags and values to your WordPress website so when links are shared it will look great. Although the name of the plugin will let you think it will only work for Facebook, it will actually optimize your content for all social networks like Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn etc.
Besides optimizing the text of the shared content, the WPFBOGP plugin will also take care of the image handling. The plugin normally looks for a featured image. If there is no featured image another image from the content will be pulled. If that isn’t there either then it will use the default image which you can set in the settings page.
The plugin will use the title and meta description from any SEO plugin you have installed so your content will be shared the same way as it will be found in Google. Check out the details on the plugin page.
WP Open Graph
The WP Open Graph plugin allows you to add Facebook Open Graph protocol to your WordPress website. With this plugin you can add meta data to any post/page/content type and edit it easily. WP Open Graph will automatically extract data from other SEOplugins such as All in One SEO and WordPress SEO by Yoast. The featured images will be used in the social shared content and if not available a default image will be presented.
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