Transform your website traffic into a viral marketing engine by rewarding your users for spreading the word. myCRED Social Share is a powerful extension for the myCRED points management system that bridges the gap between social media engagement and user loyalty. By incentivizing visitors to share your content, products, or pages on their favorite social networks, you create a self-sustaining loop of traffic growth, brand awareness, and increased user retention.
Key Features
- Automated Reward System: Seamlessly integrate social sharing actions with your existing myCRED point balance. Users receive points automatically the moment they share your content.
- Multiple Platform Support: Encourage sharing across major social networks, ensuring your content reaches audiences where they are most active.
- Configurable Point Limits: Prevent system abuse by setting daily or total limits on how many points a user can earn through social sharing actions.
- Detailed Activity Logs: Keep a transparent record of all social sharing activities within your WordPress dashboard, making it easy to track which content is performing best.
- Customizable Sharing Buttons: Integrate sharing buttons directly into your posts, pages, or custom post types to ensure they are visible and accessible to your readers.
- User Engagement Analytics: Gain insights into your community’s social behavior by monitoring which social platforms generate the most engagement for your brand.
Use Cases and Who It’s For
myCRED Social Share is designed for website owners, marketers, and community managers who understand that word-of-mouth is the most valuable form of advertising. If you run a WooCommerce store, a content-heavy blog, or a membership site, this plugin is an essential tool for scaling your reach.
For e-commerce store owners, it provides a low-cost way to encourage customers to share products with their social circles, effectively turning your shoppers into brand ambassadors. For bloggers and publishers, it incentivizes readers to distribute your articles, helping you reach new audiences without increasing your ad spend. Community managers can use this plugin to gamify the user experience, rewarding members for helping the community grow and keeping them engaged with your platform long-term.
Setup and How It Works
Getting started with myCRED Social Share is a straightforward process designed to get your loyalty program running in minutes:
- Installation: Ensure you have the core myCRED plugin installed and activated on your WordPress site. Install and activate the myCRED Social Share extension.
- Point Configuration: Navigate to the myCRED settings area to define how many points a user earns for a successful social share. You can set different values for different platforms if desired.
- Placement: Use the provided shortcodes or widget options to place your social sharing buttons in strategic locations, such as the end of your blog posts or on your product pages.
- Monitoring: Once live, your users will see the sharing options. When they click to share, the plugin verifies the action and instantly credits their myCRED account, which they can see reflected in their user profile or balance widget.
Similar Plugins
If you are looking for alternative ways to gamify your site or manage user points, you may also consider exploring other myCRED add-ons, such as myCRED WooCommerce Plus for store-specific rewards, or general gamification tools like GamiPress, which offers a broader suite of engagement triggers beyond social sharing.