Facebook Plugins for your Blogger

Facebook, the topmost social networking site, is helping bloggers to increase their readers by providing them with many tools. In addition to the 'Like' button for your page, Facebook provides many other features which you may not know. Some of there are Send, Follow, Recommendation, etc. This post is about Facebook's plugins for blogs and websites and their advantages. These plugins help readers to like, comment, send, share the posts they like or follow the blogger or the blog or to sign up for your site with their Facebook site. Being a blogger you gotta be on-par with the social networking tools and plugins.

The following are the plugins provided by Facebook.

Like Button
Most of you might know about this plugin as, I think, this is the most used plugin. This button lets the readers to 'like' a post in your site. As with the Facebook posts, the post which (in your site) reader likes gets published in the reader's friends' newsfeed. The post is visible to all his friends and in this way it drives traffic to your site.

Send Button
This button helps readers to Send the content in yout site to their friends. This drives traffic as well.

Like Button Vs. Send Button
The effectiveness of the 'Send' button is more when compared to the 'Like' button and the spread of the 'Send' button is less when compared to the 'Like' button. For instance, If I am one of your reader and I like a post, the post gets shared in my Timeline and all my friends will be able to see it. But there is no assurance that everyone of them will have a look at the post. But in the case of 'Send' button, I can send a personal message to one or a few of my friends and most of them might have a look at it.

Follow Button
The Follow button replaces the Subscribe Button. This allows your readers to subscribe to your account directly from your site.

A reader, who subscribes or follows you, will recieve your every single post in their newsfeed. So, if the reader responds to the post with a 'Like', 'Comment' or a 'Share', It gets published in his Timeline and this drives traffic to your site.

Comments
This plugin helps your readers to comment on any post in your site. If the reader comment's on your post, it gets published in his friends' newsfeed and this drives traffic to your site.

Activity Feed
This plugin shows readers about the recent Facebook activity in your site. For example, if any of the readers comment, like, send or share any of your posts, the post will be visible in the Activity Feed box for other readers to see the post.

Recommendations Box
This plugin gives users a personlized list of suggestions for the posts in your site they might like.

Recommendations Bar
This plugin allows readers to share and/or like the content and to get recommendations.

Like Box
This plugin enables users to like your Page in Facebook directly from the site. This buttons is quite different from the like button. Like buttons allows users to like a particular post in your site. On the other hand, Like Box helps users to Like your Facebook Page.

Registration
This plugin allows your readers to sign up for your website with their Facebook account.

Login Button
This plugin, in addition to the Login Button, shows profile pics of the reader's friends who already have signed up for your site.

Facepile
This plugin displays the Facebook profile pics of users who have signed up for your site or have liked your page.

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