How To Use A Social Content Locker For Wordpress

In this post I want to show you how to use a social content locker for wordpress to increase social sharing of your websites. Now that the relevance of social user interaction for top search engine results positioning has grown all the latest google up-dates , for instance the so called Penguin, increased social sharing definitely will considerably improve the positions of your wordpress sites in the search engine SERPS. An other plus point is the opportunity to generate an exponentially growing amount of potential customers right from the2 Billion active social network users. Our report should reveal the reason why each wordpress instalation should include a social content locker for wordpress and then tips to get it to work on wordpress powered self-hosted sites.

A social content locker plugin will enable You to hide parts of your website as long as a visitor has not shared your site on social networks. This approach of increasing social sharing works best when You offer a free download or an other bonus. Instead of putting the download link into your post, so that everyone can click and download You will add the content locker. A user will then see social sharing buttons and a reminder to click them to unlock the content. When a visitor uses a social button the content locker script will remove the sharing buttons from the site and display the link ( or whatever content You have hidden ).

This method is similar to opt-in pages on which people have to enter their email address to receive a download link. The advantage is that a lot of people are more likely to share your content than to give away their email address. Locking content can also help You to drive lots of viral traffic to your site from the social networks. Everyone who wants to get your download will have to share your page. All his followers will see a link to your content and if anyone of them decides to get your bonus too he will share your site again. Depending on the quality of your hidden content this can go on for a while and result in tons of highly targeted free traffic. You will also create a flood of social signals that will help your page achieve good search engine rankings.

Let me now show You 2 solutions for creating a content locker for wordpress. I will first show You a completely free way of doing it, that will also work on other sites ( not build with wordpress ). You can use this method on any site on which You can create a clickable link. No plugin is needed. You can set this up within minutes for free, so there is no reason to not use the power of locked content on your sites. Afterwards I will present a more professional solution with some more features that will only work on self hosted wordpress sites, as this method requires the installation of a WordPress plugin.

Social Content Locker Plugin Set Up

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