Facebook Comments for WordPress

What is stopping people from commenting on your blog posts? Worthwhile comments under your blog posts lend credibility to your message. They are powerful social proof that you are considered an expert in your field. In order to get more comments, you want to make it as easy as possible for people to contribute with their questions and comments.

Visitors get frustrated quickly if they are required to give their name and email to a website, click on the confirm link in their email box, then proceed to comment on your post – and you could be losing valuable feedback from your clients and shoppers.

Facebook Comments for WordPress – The Solution?

After installing this wordpress plugin, Facebook Comments for WordPress, your readers can quickly and easily interact with your site using their Facebook account.

This ease of use can increase participation on your website and connects your website to Facebook by offering the commenter the option of sharing their powerful word of mouth comment with friends on Facebook!

Case Study – Facebook Comments for WordPress

We have recently installed Facebook Comments for WordPress on a number of sites in different subject areas, and expect to see a marked increase in the referral traffic from Facebook to our websites with theses changes. Watch for Google Analytic before and after screen shots as this Facebook Marketing Strategy Case Study unfolds.

Find Frequently Asked Questions, installation and removal instructions and download details for Facebook Comments for WordPress here.

Is this the next evolution of bringing your website conversations to your audience?

Would you be comfortable connecting your website comments to Facebook?

Let us know if you would use Facebook Comments for WordPress on your website!

Facebook Comments for WordPress

Six of the first six most essential WordPress SEO tactics introduced here
were new to me… make that seven out of seven. And they are so easy!

I ran across this video on WordPress SEO within the dashboard of one of my wordpress blogs. I was going to run the video in the background while working – but soon I stopped everything I was doing, and I was taking notes on the video.

No WONDER I love my job! Every morning, it’s different – newer, faster and better!

More than just WordPress Plugins, there are details about using social media and how to bring traffic to your blog by writing guest posts for A List bloggers.

Competing is more important than winning.

Use Google website optimizer to test your subscribe button conversion rate – provide rss and email option. Under each post, remind people to subscribe.

A one-time visitor is great, but a repeat visitor is what you really want.

So many great little tips in every sentence – I’ll have to watch this a few several times!

Why Use WordPress

WordPress has a bigger community at the moment which forces it to improve at a lot faster rate.

If you look at what wordpress has been doing since 2.3, 2.5, 2.6… if you see all the improvements in those releases – if you compare that to corporate CMS’s… nobody can keep up with all the stuff they’re doing.
-Joost de Valk

The long-awaited WordPress 2.7 has finally passed it’s first two phases of beta testing!

WordPress ‘Coltrane’
The first thing you’ll notice about 2.7 is its new interface. From the top down, we’ve listened to your feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that’s just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in a previous version.

Built-in Upgrades!

This could be the last time you ever have to manually upgrade WordPress again! 2.7 now includes the ability to upgrade to future versions by clicking a few links in the admin area.

The Last Upgrade Day

I’ve seen all the hype about 2.7, but resisted becoming one of the 10′s of thousands of developers who tested the beta versions. Now that the first stable version is released – almost a month overdue, so they could incorporate all the changes and tweaks suggested by the beta testers – I’m excited like a kid at Christmas! I can’t wait to unwrap and test it!

First Deployments of WordPress 2.7

The first projects to benefit from 2.7 are new upgrades to four new tourism business website upgrade projects.

• Whitefish Bay Camp, Lake of the Woods;
• Ogoki Frontier, Armstrong;
• Sleepy Dog Cabins, Perrault Falls;

ok… enough talking! Work to do!!

I’d like to invite Tourism Businesses to try a free WordPress Blog at

http://www.fishi.ca

This is a brand new service I’ve put together specifically to serve the needs of Travel and Tourism Businesses who are just learning to run their own Blog.

Two things set this blogging service apart:

1. Many More Features. This WordPress Blog setup includes a complete set of WordPress Plugins that help your blog ‘Go Social’.   I’ve worked with WordPress for years and collected the most useful and most powerful plugins available – and always adding more.

2. Much Better Support. The Fishi.ca 5 Minute Instructional Videos walk you step-by-step through the process of creating a blog, selecting a template, all the way through every detail for creating your first post.  In addition, this is the ONLY WordPress Blog Hosting service I’ve seen that also includes a Trouble Ticket Help Desk so you can get answers to questions!

Example Blog:

http://sportshow.fishi.ca

Claim your Blog today at

http://www.fishi.ca

Set up your own Free Hosted WordPress with a range of specialized WordPress Plugins pre-installed.

Aimed at a financial audience, www.forexfrat.com is a community of blogs on futures trading, stock trading and the forex markets.

I’ve been working all morning with upgrading websites and blogs that are powered by WordPress.

The new WordPress 2.5 is a big change from all previous versions.  The layout is much less cluttered in the administration area of the site

- and I’m completely thrilled
with the new automatic Plugins Upgrade option! 

My standard WordPress installation routine includes two dozen plugins, and upgrades used to be the bain of my love afair with WordPress. 

           First, I upgraded a static-page website using wordpress as a content management system rather than as a blog.  My first upgrade went from 2.2.3 up to 2.5, so I was expecting it to go smoothly after I read the upgrade directions. 

           My second upgrade was more nerve-wracking… I updated an older blog with almost three years and 205 posts… from WordPress 1.5 to wordress 2.5 – following the same directions -

And everything worked like a charm! Which is great for me, I’ve been putting off the upgrade to  www.douglampi.com - not wanting to mess up the site… However, it was time to take the plunge and see what repairs I had to do afterwords. 

Turns out that upgrading a wordpress blog that’s had no version upgrades in two years is just as easy as how to update a wordpress blog I installed last week!

I have another dozen wordpress blogs to upgrade today, I better pay attention to my ftp program and keep those files flowin’.  As I complete the upgrades across my client sites and my own blogs, I’m taking screen captures and video clips as I experiment with the changes in the new WordPress 2.5 update.

Cheerio!

Quetico Internet Marketing is your Online Traffic Specialist

Douglas Lampi provides Internet Marketing insight into more that just top Search Engine Rankings. Today, visitors should be coming to your site through many differnet sources – and your business is at risk if your main source of traffic is from Google.

An Online Traffic Specialist must have broad knowledge and actual experience publishing in all the various media formats in order to benefit from visitor sources like

video sharing sites,
podcast sharing sites,
photo sharing sites
news feeds,
blogging sites,
social bookmarking,
social networking and
special interest groups,
from joint venture partnerships,
from purchased advertising sources like PPC and interstitials,
from Blog commenting,
from article writting – as well as
from link trades and
gaining consistent top search engine rankings.

In the new world of Web 2.0 – your ideal traffic footprint should include dozens of referral sources.  Including bringing Offline sources to view your online messages.

Your Online Traffic Specialist can help you
Achieve Internet Marketing Diversification!

I’m on a quest to find a way to permit premium subscribers to my self-hosted WordPress.org Blog.

First I searched out a few WordPress Plugins that I thought might help me with the task of  managing wordpress blog subscriber privileges, thinking that someone may have a solution that permits you to selectively display one category of content to those who have paid to be upgraded to the Premium Subscriber level.

I found a plugin that make my entire blog into a membership site, and I found a wordpress plugin that lets you easily monitize single posts… but they didn’t permit me to single out one category…  

So I’m thinking that since WordPress gives you the option of assigning users to several different User status, I was not able to find a way within the the WordPress Admin area to update or change or edit the permissions for the various user categories.

So back to Google I go.  I was suprized at how I had to work my search to get details on the blog user privilages that covered the subscribers of a blog that was already installed.

When I did find the information I wanted, I realized that was simply uneducated about the correct terminology – I should have been searching for a plugin that will extend the  WordPress 2.0 role and capability management .

WordPress 2.0 role and capability management Plugins

Now the searching provides me with some results: The plugin Just One Category (pause) Well, after installation, I have no idea what it does… I see no opportunity to assign users to various categories and not others.

And, after an hour looking, I’m putting it out to you.

Can anyone share a solution to my search?

Here’s another example of a well known business plan – that works!

WordPress Gold Mine doesn’t show pictures of boats and cars – but gives you a real-world example of a wordpress blog that has earned over $15,000.

That’s a nice bit if extra money for a hobby on the internet!  My first thought is – if you can make $15k with ONE site doing this business plan, then you could easily make ten sites – and in time, you could replace your income and quit your job!