Creating more conversations through blog posts is the holy grail of blogging. Bloggers are constantly trying to find more ways to get their readers to interact with them. And while much of this depends on the quality of your writing, there are some technical things that you can do with Wordpress to help you along the way. Here are 13 plugins for Wordpress to help you get more comments.

Call Center and Customer Care Strategies Now Power SEO, Web Traffic and Lead Generation We are in the age of brand advocacy, social media and hyper fast product design and production schedules. If our products and customer service delight customers, the news goes viral. If not, we hear angry customers in public forums almost instantly. Customer care professionals are finding themselves at ground zero of a whole new world. These new approaches to customer care show up in a bevy of new titles, from “Head of Customer Experience” to “VP of Happiness.” One aspect that surprises some customer care strategists in this new era is that they have a fresh role: that of SEO specialist, web traffic generator and even as a source of sales leads. My company, MindTouch, provides a platform that makes customers happier. We do this through our advanced social help system that creates more loyal user [...]

Because of the insane success Pinterest has had over the past year, it’s not a huge surprise to see dozens of other startups trying to replicate some of that same success. Over the past 6-12 months several dozen “pinterest clones” have started up. Some more funded and more developed than others. Pinterest Clones = More places to build links When it comes to SEO… this can be a good thing! It gives us SEO’s more places to build links. Again like always I am not in any way advocating spamming or Black-hat techniques. I don’t recommend going to pinterest clone sites and just posting a bunch of crap in order to get a few links. Rather if you are interested and willing to take the time to understand the niche of these specific social sites and post content that will be potentially interesting to each respective user base, then these [...]

The following is a guest post written by Amanda Green. The Internet is where everything happens in today’s day and age. People go online to run errands, shop, communicate with loved ones, and to look for jobs. This is why an online business is a great idea. However, like any business, you will need to find funding, which means developing a business plan and know what start-up money and cash flow is needed. Thankfully, there are many financing options available for an online business. Look into Credit Cards Credit cards are a smart financing option, especially those that come with rewards. Low rate interest credit cards with rewards ensure that you always have the cash flow you need to design a website, buy goods, and pay for marketing. In return for using the credit card, you can then earn cash back on each purchase, gift cards from your favorite stores, [...]

Article marketing has been on a bit of a roller coaster ride in the last eighteen months.  The major search engines’ attempts to clean up their results have led to the disappearance of many article marketing sites.  Article marketing as a sales strategy is nothing new, just a re-vamped version of advertorial marketing techniques used in traditional print media.  The problems with article marketing were simply that, like many areas of the internet, it is an ‘unregulated’ industry.  Anyone with a minimum of two fingers and a keyboard can write effective articles, right?  Or maybe not.  Article marketing can still be very useful as a manual link building technique as long as it’s approached with a little care and attention.  The main aim of any article SEO strategy is to increase links to your site, the important part of creating links, especially today, is focussing on quality links.  SEO has, [...]

In my most recent visit to my homeland of Hawaii and knowing that it was a short one, I wanted to make sure I ate at all of my favorite restaurants. See one of the best things about Hawaii is it’s food. Not only Hawaiian food but various types of other foods that have come as a result of various cultures integrated over time. Because of this (in my opinion) Hawaii has the best food you can find anywhere in the world. The following are the top 8 places to eat in Honolulu, Hawaii. 1. Ono Hawaiian Foods Yelp Listing  4 words. Delicious, Authentic Hawaiian Food. If you are craving real Hawaiian food than you’ve gotta check out Ono’s. The combination plate is normally what I order. 2. Sam Choy’s Yelp Listing I love this place. They have a great variety in their menu so you really can’t go wrong with this restaurant. I [...]