How to Add a LinkedIn Share Button To Your Blog

In the past few weeks, I have talked about how important it is for all bloggers to be involved on LinkedIn. Promoting your content on Facebook and Twitter is a must, but LinkedIn can help bring you more visitors and reach a whole new audience. While you can always hope for your visitors to submit your posts to LinkedIn, you can always tip things in your favor by adding a share button to your blog. There are plenty of places that you can pick up share buttons for Facebook and Twitter. That’s not the case for LinkedIn. LinkedIn Share Button is a decent WordPress plugin that does the job. It adds a LinkedIn button to your blog that your visitors can use to share your stories with their LinkedIn contacts.

This plugin is pretty simple to use and gives you enough options to customize its behavior. You get 3 designs to choose from for your button. You can add your own buttons if you know some coding. I personally use this button at the end of my posts (since there is no compact-style button available), but you can choose where you want your LinkedIn button to show up (pages, home-page, and …).

Once your visitors click on your button, it adds your story to their status box on LinkedIn. The site may not bring you a ton of traffic, but if your content is good enough, every little thing will add up over the long run.

As is the case with almost anything, you don’t want to leave things to chance on your blog when it comes to promoting your posts. Don’t hesitate to ask your visitors to help push your content on top social networks. LinkedIn is one of those networks that can bring you a decent amount of new visitors if you pay enough attention to it.