Hello gentlemen. And ladies.
Look at your website’s current social media icons.
Now look at mine!
Now back to YOUR social media icons
Now BACK TO MINE!
Sadly, your socia media icons are not mine. But they can….
Hold on.
What was that?
You have absolutely no idea what I’m babbling about?
Sigh.
Okay, listen.
I haven’t yet had my morning coffee, okay? So making a video right now with me in my nice fluffy warm LL Bean housecoat instead of my lacy black net.goddess lingerie would be almost as dramatically attention-grabbing as my currently empty, sad, lonely coffee cup.
Thus, instead I’m doing a visual write up along the lines of:
Thank you!
As I was saying, now LOOK AT MINE!
Sadly, your social media icons are not mine.
But if you ditched the common boring “must imitate the other 39,392 bloggers on this planet!” way your icons currently look, they can be as breathtakingly *stellar* as mine.
Look down.
Back up!
Where are you?
You’re on my site, Barbara Ling.com, looking at incredible shiny glossy social media icons your site could right now be entrancing your visitors with!
What’s in your hand?
Back at me!
I have it!
It’s your mouse! Getting ready to click on my shiny social media icons below to tell your friends about this post after you’ve realized how much fun you’re having reading and learning from it!
Look again.
The icons are now on YOUR SITE! Compelling YOUR visitors to promote…YOU!
Anything is possible when you think outside of the box.
Which what I’m about to show you…….right now. 🙂
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Gosh that was fun to write!
But I digress. 🙂
I was moved to write the above after bunches of my wondrous readers contacted me offline to ask me:
“Jeepers Barb, why did you change from SexyBookmarks? Where did you get the new icons? How did you set them up? Can I tell my friends about them?”
Well, like my mom always says, if something is going to happen, it’s gonna happen to my daughter.
Last week, you see, I discovered that Sexy Bookmarks was smooshilating my Feedburner feed (I learned about it from Feedburner insists that my feed is too big . FYI, Sexy Bookmarks vs. Feedburner does offer a solution that apparently lets you keep SB in your site).
But after deactivating it, I realized that I had effectively made it impossible for readers to promote my posts.
Not good!
Searching about on WordPress, I came across Light Social which is perfect! Every individual post gets hyperlinked automatically!
Perfect, except….for one teeny tiny (literally teeny tiny) problem.
The icons they offer – they’re teeny-tiny!
They’re only 16×16 pixels in size. ie, they’re this:
Now, I don’t know about you, but I like it when people notice how to promote my writings.
So I started looking about how I could make those social media icons work for me.
And I realized, it required just this one teeny tiny enhancement:
The default images are stored in the light social plugin plugin directory – if I uploaded NEW social media icon images with the same name, *they’d* be used instead!
So off I went thru the Internet, searching for the most perfect set of free social media icons imaginable. When I found them, I downloaded them, made sure to choose the 128×128 (but set the size to 75) images, uploaded them, tweaked the plugin code to specify the height and width, and voila!
And you see the result below at the end of me post.
Nice, eh?
So! If you want some eye-catching social media web icons at the ends of *your* posts, you can do what I did!
It’s free, it’s easy, and all it requires is finding an social media web icon set that you like.
Which brings me to:
101+ Stellar Exciting Social Media Sets You MUST Witness To Start 2011 Off Right!
Click thru the below and enjoy!
1.) Blue Print social icons by Samo Drole
2.) Socialize 3 by DryIcons
3.) Social Charms – pack 2 by Omara Kurzdorfer and Micronicon
4.) Helveticons Social by Goodbyehorses
5.) Halloween Social by Iconshock
6.) YOOicons Social Bookmarks by YOOtheme
7.)Stickers by Clay Cauley
8.) Social Network Icons by Chris Dalonz
9.) Vintage Icon Set For Bloggers by Nikola
10.) Social and Web Icons v2 by Umar123
11.) Vector 3D Social Icons by Iconshock
12.) Social Networks Pro Icons by Artbees
13.) Handycons 2 by Janko
14.) Social Keys Icon Pack by Louis Gubitosi
15.) Sketchy Social Media icons by BuildInternet
16.) Social Creatures by Fasticon
17.) Black Social Media by Mysitemyway Design Team
18.) Social Jeans by Nishad
19.) Isometrica Social Icons by Arcnerva.com
20.) Yellow road sign by Mysitemyway Design Team
21.) Grunge Social Media by Mysitemyway Design Team
22.) 3D Social Icons by Aha-soft
23.) 21 free social vintage icons by Webtoolkit4me
24.) Elegant Media Icons by Nicholas Roach
25.) Perspective social icons by Iconshock
26.) Social Media Balloons by Double-J designs
27.) Free Social Moleskin Icons by Iconshock
28.) Amazing 3D social icons by Pink Moustache
29.) Social Networking Icons by Deleket
30.) OLED Social Icons by Arrioch
31.) Valentines Special: Social Bookmark Icon Set by Moneyzeal Showcase
32.) Social Web Buttons by Webfruits
33.) Social icons made of wood by Webtoolkit4me
34.) Social Sketches by An Phan Van
35.) Social Media Price Tags by Deepu Balan
36.) PC Social Media by Michelle Kirkbride
37.) Social Media Bookmark by XdunubX
38.) Extreme Grunge Garments by Colaja
39.) Circular Social Media by BlogPerfume.com
40.) Free Social Icons Part A by Iconshock
41.) Free Social Icons Part B by Iconshock
42.) Glossy Waxed Wood by Mysitemyway Design
43.) Inside by IconTexto
44.) Old Bottle Crowns by Dawghouse Design Studio
45.) Shiny Social Ball by Zeus Box Studio
46.) SocioLEGO by Sneh Roy
47.) Studiom 6 Social Icons by Studiom 6
48.) Sweet Social Media by Custom Icon Design
49.) User web 2.0 by IconTexto
50.) Web 2.0 Origami by Paddy Donnelly
51.) Web 2 icons by Fasticon
62.) Color Stroked by Mfayas
53.) Doodle by Chris Spooner
54.) Social 2 Duo by IconBlock
55.) Social Media Bookmark by Benjamin Reid
56.) Hand Drawn Social by Andres Antonio
57.) Crumpled by Mysitemyway Design Team
58.) Folder Style by CypherBox
59.) Beer Cap Social icons by Andrea Austoni
60.) Chrome by Chris Wallace
61.) Antique Social Media Icons by *WebTreatsETC
62.) Denim Jeans Social Media Icons by *WebTreatsETC
63.) Wood Social Networking Icons by *WebTreatsETC
64.) 108 Glowing Neon Social Media by *WebTreatsETC
65.) Bulb Social Media Icons by ~sargsyan
66.) 28 Social Media Icon Badges by ~peachpops
67.) Social Media Comment Bubbles by *WebTreatsETC
68.) Social Media Discs by ~zeolyte
69.) Social media icons by ~ArXh
70.) Neon Social Media Buttons by ~SimekOneLove
71.) Hand drawn social media icons by ~Marc-G
72.) Social Networking icons set by =demeters
73.) Strawberry Social Media Icons by ~annanta
74.) Red Button Social Media Icons by ~claycauleyinc
75.) Peach Social Icons by ~starsunflowerstudio
76.) FreeHand_ColorStroked icon pac by ~mfayaz
77.) Sleek Social Network tab icons by ~cheth
78.) Sticky Tab Social Media Icons by ~claycauleyinc
79.) 154 Simple Glossy Silver Icons by *WebTreatsETC
80.) Sea Beach Social Icons Set by ~PsdDude
81.) 154 Silver Inlay Glowing Glass by *WebTreatsETC
82.) Social Media 10 Icon Set by ~BlindScientist
83.) Metal Media Social Icons by ~Tamixes
83.) Grunge Social Media Icon Set by ~claycauleyinc
85.) Flip Flop Social Media Icons by ~EffBomb
86.) Flurry Icons for Social Media by ~HeskinRadiophonic
87.) Redlove social media Icon set by ~suraj78
88.) Cracked Glass Social by ~Tamixes
89.) Black Square Social Media Icon by ~claycauleyinc
90.) Social Network Icon Set 3 by ~Lucifer666mantus
91.) Social Network Icon Set by ~hongkiat
92.) Heart Social Media Icons by ~moneyzeal
93.) Social Network Icon Set by ~Lucifer666mantus
94.) Free Falling Icons by ~FallingArts
95.) GRAFFITI SOCIAL MEDIA ICON PAC by ~emperorwarion
96.) My Vitals by ~jackrugile
97.) Social Media hardwood icons by ~c2designco
98.) Footprint Social Media Icons by ~Ireth21
99.) Gold Leather Social Media Icon by ~richworks
100.) Location: Free Social Media Icon Set
101.) Circular Style MBT Social Icons Set
102.) koidesign social icon pack by ~koidesign
103.) Drink Web 2.0
104.) Free Social Media Folders
105.) Maltese Cross Social Media Icons
106.) Free AJI 3D social media icon set #1
107.) Latte Art Social Icons
And there you have it.
100 + 7 wonderful social media icon sets you can use right now for free to make your site stand out as it deserves.
So what are you waiting for? Get inspired today….and then make it happen.
Your future blog’s publicity will thank you for it.
Enjoy!
Grow strong,
Barbara Ling
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You’ll love what you learn… Promise!