Traffic is the main headache for bloggers and website owners. They desire to produce high amount of visitors always, but sometimes may not. Your sidebar is a great opportunity to keep engagement by highlighting your own content or provided some complimentary content ie: showing your popular posts, adding a banner link to a category page, showing weather for a local blog etc.

Here, in this post I have compiled a list of some of the best free social sidebar widgets for wordpress that are useful for your wordpress blogs to improve your traffic on your websites. You may be interested in the following modern trends related articles as well: Free Page Rank Plugins for WordPress, Premium Arabic WordPress Themes, Free WordPress Category Widgets and Paid Kindergarten WordPress Themes.

1. Twine Social

Twine Social provides the tools you need to grow and engage your social audience. Display any social media content on your WordPress site, and drive massive social engagement.

2. WP Twitter Feeder Widget 1.0

Easy to setup and easy to use. This widget will use your themes styling so that the widget looks like the rest of your website. If your theme is setup, the widget will blend and look like all your other widgets.

3. WordPress Facebook

Spider Facebook is a well-equipped tool to integrate your website with Facebook. The product package contains a large number of widgets and plugins to make your website more social.

4. Twitter Widget with Tweet Reach

Twitter Widget with Tweet Reach is best twitter sidebar plugin widget you will find for WordPress. It easy to use, easy to install and has all the features you needs to show your twitter activity, feeds off. Twitter Widget with Tweet Reach is a sidebar widget.

5. Really Simple Twitter Feed Widget

This plugin displays the latest posts from a Twitter account in a sidebar widget. Easy customization of style, replies, retweets, links, dates, thumbnails and a lot more.

6. PureTheme Slide Social Tabs

This plugin provides four different Pop up Like Boxes which appears on hover on little social icons that are at left sidebar on your blog or website. One of the best ways to increase your Social fans is to add the jQuery Pop-up Social Box to your Blog.

7. Gabfire Twitter Feed

Gabfire Twitter Feed is a simple plugin to show latest tweets in your sidebar or any other widget area. It uses the latest Twitter oAuth method ensuring full compatibility. This plugin works with any theme.

8. Widget Twitter

The Widget Twitter plugin is the best feature for fully integrating Twitter with your WordPress website. The website users will be able to stay tuned to your Twitter account through your website.

9. Dialogfeed

Dialogfeed allows you to integrate social feeds from social media into your Website, with full control over what gets republished through a complete moderation panel.

10. Random Tweet Widget

This plugin displays a random post from a Twitter account in a sidebar widget. You can use the same Authorization strings for several widgets and multiple website. Just remember to store them in a safe place.

11. Any User Twitter Feed

Twitter Timeline using only their username, or display tweets based on a keyword. Fully compatible with the latest Twitter API and guaranteed to work even with the forthcoming twitter changes!

12. FBF Facebook Page Feed Widget

This plugin displays the latest posts from one or multiple Facebook page(s) in a sidebar widget. Facebook page ID is enough to configure this widget. This plugin uses simple pie rss reader which is a in-built/default reader for wordpress.