Social Metrics WordPress Plugin Review

Keeping track of your blog’s standing in today’s world of social networking and sharing is not an easy thing to do, when we have hundreds of leading social networks and content sharing services like Facebook, Twitter and Google +1. Now think of every blog post you made. It’s almost impossible to keep track how they are doing in each social networking site.

Thanks to the Social Metrics WordPress Plugin from Riaz. This plugin is a back-end social media analytic tool you can use to track your blog’s performance on popular social networking websites and services within your WordPress Blog’s admin dashboard.

Here are a few features that the social metrics plugin offers

• Track how many time your content shared, liked or recommended on Twitter, Facebook, Google +1, Google Buzz, Digg, StumbleUpon and LinkedIn.
• The Statistics are displayed in a tabular format within your admin dashboard.
• Tweet, Like or +1 your own content directly from the statistics panel.
• Use the information to find out which social media websites should you promote your content the most.
• Filter your posts by category or by the date of post.
• Absolutely no technical skill needed

Social Metrics Statistics

Once installed, there will be two new Social Metrics options in your dashboard. The first one is under Plugins sub menu which can be used to set the number of posts or pages to display at the stats page. The main statistics page is located under “Dashboard” sub menu. This page can also be accessed from the Admin Bar if you have it enabled.

I have only been using the plugin since last week and I found it incredibly useful to track my blog on social media sites and quickly share my content across the leading social media sites. The point to be noted is this plugin doesn’t add any share or like button on your blog posts. So, if you are looking for a plugin that offers a front-end button integration, this plugin is not for you.