Social media buttons are social triggers enabling your visitors to share your content with others in an easy yet powerful way. If you have not installed any kind of social media sharing buttons on your site, you will miss out on a significant opportunity to organically increase traffic to your site. If your content is adding value to your visitors then make it easy for them to share that content with others, which in time might increase site authority and number of visitors. You can easily install one of the many great WordPress social media plugins available to accommodate this and make social media sharing a part of your ongoing social media marketing strategy.
There are loads of buttons and icon sets available with equally many colour, shape and size variations making it fairly easy to find a design that complements your site layout and style. If you want to encourage people to share and like your content, it is essential to place the buttons in a consistent manner throughout your site and above the fold. This could be in the sidebar or as an unobtrusive social bar at the top or side of your articles making it a natural part of your site layout.
How many buttons to include depends on which social media platforms you are using as part of your marketing strategy. Making it easy for visitors to bookmark your content for later digestion should not be underestimated and adding a ‘follow us’ button on every page will also make it easier to get new followers potentially strengthening your brand recognition. Keeping the number of buttons low also ensures a clutter free and easy navigation.
Whether you want to replace your existing buttons or are just setting up your social media icons for the first time on your website, this collection of 40+ buttons is an excellent place to get inspiration. If you find this article useful, please feel free to share and like.
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Beautiful & Free Social Media Icons
This set includes thirty-five 32×32 icons in PNG and PSD format. You can use these icons however you like. There are absolutely no restrictions. This social media icon set includes icons for the following applications: Facebook, RSS, Twitter, Dribbble, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Evernote, LinkedIn, Vimeo, Digg, DeviantArt, Bebo, Flickr, Posterous, Blogger, WordPress, Delicious, SoundCloud, Yahoo, eMail, StumbleUpon, YouTube, MySpace, Last.fm, DesignFloat, Orkut, Behance, Netvibes, Reddit, Forrst, Grooveshark, Path, Google Plus and Picasa.
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Minimalist Social Button Pack
Very nice set of clean and minimalist social media buttons in many different colors and sizes. Easy to edit in Photoshop.
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87+ Social Buttons
Amazing Collection of beautifully crafted social web buttons for all types of websites. Easy to use, customize and change colors to your needs. Over 87 buttons in 3 different styles and 29 icons in 2 different styles and sizes that will rock your websites. Comes in various different styles and Fully Organized, Layered PSD file with all shapes.
MORE INFO – by graphicriver (Premium)
Free Social Media Icon Set
Need some some social media icons? This collection from elegantthemes is aesthetically designed with simplicity in mind.
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Share Social Button Pack
Delicious social buttons set of 18 types of buttons.
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Social and Web Buttons Pack
A collection of attractive social and web buttons perfect for your websites, blogs, portfolios and profile pages. Display your social networks and encourage connections. Quality buttons with transparent .PNG and layered .PSD file included.
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3D buttons – Layered PSD
Editable layered PSD of 3D buttons for Facebook, Twitter, google +, RSS , behance, dribbble, youtube and Vimeo. Created in PhotoShop CS5. Perfect to use for websites and blogs.
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Retro Vintage Social and Web Buttons
A collection of vintage-style social and web buttons perfect for your websites, blogs, portfolios and profile pages. Vector shapes used making them resizable. Transparent .PNG and layered .PSD files are included in the download and are very easy to customize.
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26 Social Bookmark Tabs
26 Social Bookmark Tabs specifically designed to
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Social Glass Buttons
Wonderful social sharing icons and buttons with glass look – perfect for modern web site designs.
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Social Buttons Pack
Social Buttons are perfect for your websites, blogs, portfolios and profile pages. Social Buttons in one layered and named PSD file. File includes 17 social buttons in “link” and “hover” positions. Easy change size & color!
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Social Buttons Pack
Social Buttons are perfect for your websites, blogs, portfolios and profile pages.
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Custom Like Button
Use this in your web site if you want your Facebook like button look cool! The like button is designed to appear on HOVER .
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Socialize Social Button Kit
A clean collection of Social Media (web) Buttons perfect for use on your Website, Blog, Portfolio Pages and many more! Socialize features 106 unique Social Media buttons.
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Dark Striped Social Buttons
Dark striped social buttons exactly for your website and to get social! 2 sizes included with normal and hover buttons. They are easy to customize and to change icons and colors.
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3D Social Media Buttons
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Highly detailed, stylish set of 3D social media buttons for your web / app project. Fully scalable graphics and icons including Facebook and Twitter ready and waiting.
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Social Media Buttons
Nice, clean and minimalist social media icons meant to make sharing easy without any distracting elements or colors.
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Web 2.0 Buttons, social icons & product showcase
Website and internet Web 2.0 Buttons, both normal and rollover are included(except small button – no rollover state). buttons contains texts and icons. Social icons various social network icons for your blog or website. nicely designed in clean and fresh style.
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Modern Social Buttons Pack
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Clean white round icon set vector web buttons
Suitable for website design or any high resolution printing purposes. Full shape layers, which allows you to scale to any size if needed.
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Application Download Buttons + Social Buttons
This is a set of buttons that you can use as the download button of your application. You can also use these buttons to promote your social sites.
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Social Networking Buttons
12 social networking buttons + 12 corresponding hover transformations.
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3D Glass Buttons On Fire
High quality Buttons on fire. These buttons are highly customizable with optional fire, fire lights, reflections and optional drop shadow and ground lights. These buttons come in two variations one with fire and one without fire but more variations can be made. These buttons have 3D look and Tinted Glass finish.
MORE INFO – by graphicriver (Premium)
Clean & Colourful Web Elements
A set of clean & colourful web elements in four colour variations.
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10 Social websites button
You have 2 files psd with normal quality and high quality. About 10 buttons for biggest social websites with 3 styles: normal, hover and active.
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33 Free Social Media Icons
Somicro contains 33 icons covering most of the popular social networks out there. In the pack come 2 sets; one with a border and one without, totalizing 66 icons. It’s aim is to be used on the web, hence the small icon size. Just updated with new icons.
MORE INFO – by Tina Mailhot-Roberge at Veodesign (Free)
Social Media Sleek Icons: Icon Pack
This free social media icon pack includes 25 sleek, modern and very usable social media/networking icons that can be used and downloaded (free of charge) in your work. Commercial work use is permitted. Use it on blogs, portfolios, web application interfaces, and so forth. The icons come in 2 sizes: 32×32px and 16×16px. Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, and Digg are but a few icons that are in this free social media icon pack.
MORE INFO – by Supratim Nayak (Free)
Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers
This set of free hand drawn doodle icons includes 14 graphics tailored specifically for bloggers. Including social media graphics for Delicious, Design Float, Digg, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Technorati and Twitter as well as commonly used icons such as RSS, Home, Comments, Contact and WordPress.
MORE INFO – by Chris Spooner (Free)
Social Share Buttons Pack
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Metro Social Media Icon Set
Today we have a free set of 20 social media icons that can be used in your own website and blog designs. The icons come in 32 and 64 pixels (.png files).
MORE INFO – by Kawsar Ali (Free)
Social Media Bubbles Icon Pack
These social media icons include 8 icons for the popular social media/networking sites including Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon. The PSD files are included for each icon in case you need to modify them yourself. The size of each icon is 250×250px, which is very big for icons so you might need to rescale them down to fit your needs.
MORE INFO – by Kyle Prio (Free)
Retro!
A new free icon set consists of 25 icons, in 4 colors (pink, blue, grey & green), in 48×48px and 60×60px resolution.
MORE INFO – by pinkmoustache (Free)
Hand drawn social media icons
Stunning set of awesome hand drawn media icons.
MORE INFO – by Marc-G (Free)
Free Stamp Social Network Icon – V2
In this icon set are included 32 creative noisy stamp icons in five different sizes. These icons you can use in grunge or nosy style blogs and website to share posts or show your social profiles. Icon set is free for all, so grab it and use for all your projects.
MORE INFO – by absdostan (Free)
IC Minimal Icon Set
IC Minimal Icon Set includes 28 Icons in total all PNG & JPG format and a size of 64px – 64px.
MORE INFO – by designdeck (Free)
Grunge Peeling Stickers Social Media Icons
This Icon Pack is chuck full of 20 Grunge Peeling Social Media Stickers.
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OLED social icons
OLED style, like small displays. Basically, every icon is 16x16px OLED display, glowing dots & stuff.
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15 Social Media Icons (PSD)
Very nice and modern, and can be used on any color background.
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Social Paw Icons
A new set of very cool social icons designed as paws.
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Simple Social Icons
A very nice set of icons to boost your results.
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Furry Cushions Social Icons
It’s that time of the year again, when you just need a furry cushion to help you socialize. A set of social cushions furry enough to last you all winter.
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Social Media Circles Icon Set
This set includes Gmail, Pinterest, Forrst, Dribbble, Behance, and G+. StumbleUpon, The Web Blend and Posterous were updated to match their new branding.
MORE INFO – by arbent (Free)
Carsten started writing for Tripwiremagazine in 2011 and is a blogger who likes to write about WordPress topics, web design, photography, blogging, new tech stuff, gadgets, gaming etc.
I love this collection.
Thank you for sharing! Ü
Social Media is the best Source of getting traffic instantly so every client said to use social Media icon in design so there website are compulsory the take Social Media icon..
This is a topic which is near to my heart.
.. Many thanks! Exactly where are your contact details though?
Hi Christy,
You can send an e-mail to [email protected] and I will try to answer any question you might have.
Kind regards,
Sofie
Social Media Manager
Hi every one, here every one is sharing these knowledge, so it’s nice to read this website, and I used to pay a visit this weblog daily.
Talking about amazing social media buttons and icons sets, how come your site does not include a Pinterest or Pin this button? While I understand that they are hard to code with the WordPress social plugin that you are using, you should try to install one. Traffic from Pinterest has been reported to be quite good for design and tech blogs like yours. You should take a look at implementing one at your site, what do you think?
Hi Stefan, thank you for your comment regarding a Pinterest / Pin it button. For now we have decided not to include Pinterest but we will take it into consideration next time we change our layout 🙂
Kind regards,
Sofie
Nice collection. I liked the Free Hand Drawn Doodle the most.
Great nice collection ! very useful. Thanks so much i got here very use full social icon idea
Thanks so much, I’m going to figure out how to get those Web 2.0 buttons integrated into one my my sites. I like that they don’t look like most other “cookie cutter” freebie icons.
nice collection ! very useful.
nice img