In a perfect world, your readers will take the time to remember to submit your best content to all relevant social media services around. After all, wouldn’t it be nice if you got some exposure on those sites for all the work you have done without having to lift a finger. That’s actually possible as long as your content provides unique value to your readers. You also want to have the proper tools on your blog to make it easy for your readers to submit your posts to those sites. If you are running your blog on Wordpress, you are in luck. There are plenty of plugins that make it so easy for your visitors to share your content on top social networking sites.

Fixed Social Plugin is an amazing little plugin that is worth a try for anyone who’s looking to get more exposure for his/her content on sites such as Facebook, StumbleUpon, and other top sites. This plugin is very flexible. It lets you pick and choose the style of your buttons and also the ones you want to show on your blog.

You also have control on where your buttons show up. They can show up horizontally at the top of your blog or vertically on the right side of your screen. You can even no follow the links to avoid leaking PageRank.

I would have loved to have the option to customize the look and feel of this plugin further from the back-end. However, the plugin is pretty easy to install, and you can always change the settings if you know some coding. What I like about this plugin is the fact that it sits these buttons on the top of your page in a non-intrusive manner. It may not work for every blog, but it’s worth a try. Probably the easiest way to make your blog more social friendly.

Gmail is one of the best hosted e-mail services on the market. It not only comes with an intuitive interface, but it makes managing e-mails much easier no matter what type of device you are using or how many e-mails you are getting. Of course, as a blogger you want to spend more time creating content and promoting your blog and less time organizing your e-mails, contacts, and attachments. That’s where Mailbrowser can help. It’s a cool add-on for Gmail that lets you manage your contacts much easier. The plugin will connect to your Gmail account and grabs and displays all your contact information in a more organized fashion. It even manages your attachments as well.

Gmail may be an e-mail service, but thanks to Mailbrowser you can use your Gmail account as a fully-fledged contact management service. It can keep track of your e-mails with your contacts, and it even lets you take notes about your contacts. I also love the fact that you can search through your attachments much easier by taking advatage of this innovative plugin. Mailbrowser provides you with a consolidated view of all the documents that you have exchanged with your contacts. You can even version your attachments and tag your contacts, making the tool quite fun to play with.

I don’t know about you, but I use my Gmail account very heavily. That means I get a lot of e-mails and files on a daily basis. Sometimes, going through all these emails and organizing them effectively can take hours of my time. With a plug-in such as Mailbrowser, I can manage my contacts and attachments more easily and get more done in less time. You can even manage multiple accounts and automatically synchronize across multiple installations. Mailbrowser may not be perfect but has a lot of potential. Quite honestly, playing with Gmail has never been so much fun.

As much as you want to avoid it, search engine optimization should be one of your top priorities if you want to take your blog to the next level and build a real business around it. Traffic is not everything, but it is very important if you want to become a pro blogger and quit your day job. There is a lot of science and art behind the field of search engine optimization and the industry is changing so much all the time. So it’s fairly tough to keep up with the latest development, but unless you know how you are doing with your search engine optimization efforts, it’d be tough to figure out what you need to do. If you can’t tell what keywords are bringing you traffic from what page positions, you are not going understand the opportunity available to you.

SEO Booster Pro is an innovative Wordpress plugin that helps you find out how you are doing on the SERPS, and how you can go about improving your positions. The plugin is designed to let you know where you are getting your traffic from (from which page, what position, and what keywords). It also keeps track of changes in your search engine rankings, so you can figure out whether you are making progress, and which one of your search competitors are stepping up their game.

The plugin comes with a lot of useful options. The Top 10 SERPs tab shows you the top keywords and referring URLs for your pages. The last 35 SERPs visits show you what keywords are driving traffic to your site, and what other keywords you could be taking advantage of to increase your overall traffic.

What I like about SEO Booster Pro is the fact that it let me export all this data and manipulate them for more analysis. So while the information that you are getting from the plugin is handy, there are plenty of ways to dig deeper to get a better understanding of what you need to do to dominate the search engines.

SEO Booster Pro is a great way to outsource your SEO tracking process and save time at the same time. All you have to do is set it and forget it. After a few days, you are going to see a whole lot of data gathered by this plugin without you having to do anything. So you can spend more time on your content and worry less about your rankings.

When you get started with your blog, you only have a handful of posts for a while. So you don’t really get too much traffic from search engines. But once you hit those magic numbers (500, 1000, …) in posts, you are going to get a lot of passive traffic from all kinds of places. Some people may digg your blog posts. Others may submit your posts to Facebook, Delicious, or even Twitter. So you are going to get traffic from different sources. Now the easy way to deal with your traffic is to do nothing. Just sit and watch as people come and go. But that’s not very smart. Perhaps the smarter way to approach your traffic is by figuring out where its coming from and treat each source differently.

WP Greet Box is a cool plugin for Wordpress bloggers that makes it easy to track your visitors and show them customized messages based on their referring URL. Essentially, the plugin lets you treat your Facebook, Twitter, and Stumbleupon traffic differently. You can give your Facebook visitors an incentive to tweet your posts and vice versa. This process can be implemented for other blogging platforms as well, though you’ll most likely need a 3rd party script to get the job done. With WP Greet Box, you won’t have write a single line of code, which is a big plus.

So why is this approach important? As someone who has worked on a lot of landing pages in the past, I can tell you that people often take the actions that you ask them to when they are faced with the call to action. And if you give them an incentive to distribute your content, as long as your content is of high quality, they will most likely take you upon your offer. What you don’t want to do is go overboard with WP Greet Box. Thankfully, you have got access to a series of settings that you can customize to avoid annoying your readers (e.g. Visitor Timeout).

Overall, you can’t do everything by yourself when it comes to blogging. So if you are getting ranked on search engines and your content is distributed on social media sites, why not ask your readers to help you take your blog to the next level? WP Greet Box lets you do just that.