PlzShareMe URL Shortener & Viral Booster

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Shorten URLs of your posts and generate social/viral activity sending your website traffic and increasing video views.

Author:Paul Keller (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:4.0
WordPress version tested:4.6.28
Plugin version:1.5
Added to WordPress repository:30-01-2016
Last updated:03-11-2016
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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PlzShareMe URL Shortener & Viral Booster

The PlzShareMe URL Shortener & Viral Booster WordPress plugin will shorten your WordPress Posts into a PlzShare.Me short and socially friendly url. All of your shortened urls can be accessed on your website’s backend. Shorten new posts by creating a new post, and any previously posts by simply going into it and pressing “Update.”

  • Your shortened URLs are then shared throughout the PlzShare.Me social network (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, Tumblr, Stumbleupon and others).
  • Every week, we will choose a social post to boost (advertise) on social media and feature it on our blog.
  • We will highlight some of your shortened URLs on PlzShare.Me blog (http://plzshare.me/blog)
  • You can shorten any YouTube, Vimeo, Vine and DailyMotion video on Plzshare.Me to increase your Views/Plays/Loops.
  • Full analytics including total clicks, visitor location and referrers sending traffic to your content accessible from your WordPress backend for your shortened links.
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Step 1: Creating Short Links, Responsive Social Share Buttons and Subscribe/Follow/LIke Buttons

  1. On the left navigation menu click “PlzShareMe”.
  2. Go to Settings.
  3. Set your API Key, which can be downloaded free by registering at PlzShare.Me. Go to Settings, then on the right in the Developers box copy the API Key. Paste it into the API Key and save it.
  4. Choose whether you would like to show the Short URL at the bottom of your pages and posts.
  5. Choose if you’d like to display the social icons (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest) at the bottom of your post or page.
  6. Enter any social account you have. Any you put an ID for will show a subscribe/follow widget at the bottom of your post and pages. Leave any of these blank and it will not show.
  7. Hit save.

Step2: Publishing and Setting The PlzShare.Me Short URL

Once you create a new post, a short url will automatically be created. It’s avaible if you click on the “Short Link” button, as well as through the main PlzShare.Me admin page. On the right side of every post is a total of how many clicks your shortened URL has received.

To set a short url for any previous posts, simply click into the post and choose “Update.” It will assign the url.

Viewing My Statistics

  1. On the right hand side of any post, click “More Details”
  2. On the main PlzShare.Me admin page you will receive a table of all your shortened content. The API Key will call all of your stats from your PlzShare.Me account. Click on “View Stats” to see analytics for any shortened post.
  3. If you’ve created a PlzShare.Me shortened url for a video (YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, or DailyMotion), simply log into your account on PlzShare.Me and you may see all your links and their related stats for your website and your videos.
  4. You can now see the traffic we send in your Google Analytics. Go to Aquisitions > All Traffic > and look for “plzshare.me / social”.

Social Sharing Perks

Have you ever shortened your links on Bit.ly, Ow.ly, Goo.gl or others? How many times have they shared your content with their networks to help get you exposure? Exactly. This is the perk we offer, which sets us apart from all the rest.

Every post you create that receives a PlzShare.Me shortened url will be shared on at last one our own social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, StumbleUpon, or Google+). You will begin to get more shares, followers and visits to your website with every post you shorten with us. We share every valid link you shorten on our social networks, and (if you have a social account) we will tag you to help build awareness! Think of us as your URL Sharing Social and Viral Marketing Team.

We will also highlight and link to your content on our blog at http://plzshare.me/blog/.

Help and Support

Visit http://plzshare.me/blog/#contact and send us your questions. Also, you may add it in the support tab here.


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