As we all are aware, the social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google +1 continues its domination around the globe. As such, adding social media plugins can prove to be a free marketing mechanism for your business.

The plugins make it easy for your website visitors to share what they like about your website with others. This way you can get more traffic and even sales leads through social media platforms. So not only for blogs, these plugins can be useful for any business.

Social Media Buttons and Widgets to consider:

• Facebook comes first in mind when we talk about social media. So if you have decided to add social media plug-ins, Facebook's share widget is a must-have.
• Equally important, Twitter's retweet button can help you spread the word about almost anything.
• If your website is content driven with focus on news, you may wish to consider Digg This button on each new content page.
• Very popular, but reletively less known, StumbleUpon offers a variety of promo buttons to encourage visitors to promote your site to the StumbleUpon community.
• Do you sell products or services that appeals to women more than anyone else? If so, 'Kirtsy This!' button can help you promote your products and services through Kirtsy This! members community.
• Delicious is another social bookmarking community that loves to share lists. Delicious Save button can also help you gain traffic to your website content. This plug-in is more suitalbe for content driven blogs and news channels.

Having all these buttons your website may make your page look a bit cluttersome sometimes. Also there are other community bookmark plugins that you may wish to add to your website. So instead adding the individual widgets from these social media platforms you can also consolidate all of these in one button with 'add this' or 'share this' buttons.

Happy Marketing!