The 9 Best Tools for Getting More Social Shares

From NeilPatel.com, the 9 best tools for getting more social shares


The best tool for getting more social shares is producing high quality, in-depth content. Great content still needs to be circulated to get its dues. These nine social sharing tools can do that and also help you gain an edge over your competitors:


1. WP Social Sharing

When people read content on your blog, you want to make it easy for them to share it. With this tool you can add social sharing buttons for most of the popular platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.


2. Portent's Content Idea Generator

This particular tool helps you put together the perfect heading to entice people to read the rest of your content, increasing the chances of it being shared. If you don't get a heading you like the first time, you can keep generating more until you find exactly what you're looking for.


3. Image Sharer

Sharing text-based content is easy, but with images, social sharing is a lot harder. Image Sharer make sit easy for your readers to share images. Image shareability increases your backlink count, traffic and number of social shares.


4. Shareaholic

Shareaholic allows you to add share buttons, follow buttons and create shareable images. It is one of the most advanced tools on the list with its many features and the ability to customize them. There's a good chance this particular tool will change your marketing approach, while generating more social shares.


5. SocialRank

Social Rank is specifically catered toward Twitter and Instagram. With it, you can identify, organize and manage your followers, making it easier for you to filter your followers to target the right people at the right time.


6. Reddit

Reddit has 34 million users and 8 billion monthly page views. With this much patronage, if you post the right type of content, you can easily attract a lot of comments and shares. The best part is that success on Reddit often makes its way to other social sites.


7. Canva

Canva allows you to switch up your content from text-heavy blog posts to image-based content, which is more likely to be shared. This is also a great tool to use to create infographics, even as a non-designer, allowing you to save money you would have otherwise spent hiring a professional artist.


8. Tweroid

Tweroid is another helpful tool, but only functions with data from Twitter. It provides you with extremely valuable information: it lets you know the best times to tweet based on your content and followers' tweets. This increases your chance for more shares simply through well-timed tweets, knowing they are reaching the largest possible audience.


9. Google Trends

Google Trends lets you know what the top stories are at any time of the day. You can narrow your search even more based on a specific category or location. This can help increase shares because people are more likely to share what is trending.


Combining high-quality content with any of these tools can really increase your social shares, reaping you larger benefits.


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