Google +1 button is the next big thing everyone in SEO community was waiting for and since now available - here is how to add it to your WordPress blog, while we are waiting for a properly coded plugin to be released.

Just follow this simple tutorial to have your very own Google +1 button and if you like it, do be sure to use the social media sharing options, +1 is available (hint)…

Website conversions to your most desired goal is not talked about as much as website traffic and yet – I think it is highly important although sometimes more difficult for WordPress based sites. In this post I want to present couple plugins that allow you to present custom content based on which page, category, post your visitor is viewing using couple widgets.

Formula to getting more leads, customers is fairly simple and hasn’t changed since the web invented:

• Properly designed and optimized site
• Quality content that provides answers or solutions to your targeted niche
• Quality traffic through whatever sources you choose to implement
• Conversion of resulting visitors into repeat visitors / leads / customers

That s it! I don’t believe there is any need to overly complicate the process but getting it right is extremely important for success of your site or blog. Now, lets assume you got the first 3 parts of the equation right and concentrate on the last one – WordPress website conversions of visitors into subscriber and / or customers using a very simple strategy – presenting RELEVANT offers while they are viewing your blog.

Last Tuesday, after careful evaluation and weighing in Pros VS Cons I have decided to add Intense Debate WordPress plugin to my blog and in this post I want to outline what lead to this decision and why you might want to consider doing same.

There is at least couple negative impacts I have already noticed and before you make the decision to switch – you might want to read about my discoveries and reasons.

Congratulations! You have finally managed to master SEO, social media marketing, article marketing and whatever other traffic generation methods you might be using. You are getting floods of new people coming to read your blog…

But Have You Ever heard about so-called “bounce rate” ?

And yes, I used that picture on purpose to show you just how happy your newly acquired visitors to click that “Back” button or simply close the window they are using to read your blog post or page….

UNLESS

You Give Them a Reason to Stay!

Luckily, as WordPress blogger you have quite an arsenal over your competitors who (out of sheer stubbornness, I assume) using different blogging platform.

By simply adding a few plugins you can deploy two of the most effective strategies to draw your new visitors into your blog content: Related Posts and Popular Posts.

With release of WordPress 3.0 Beta 2 we are inching closer to the main release of the newest version of this very popular blogging platform. I’m quite excited as new version brings us not only a host of enhancements but also some new functionality that was not previously available. Mashable did an excellent job of covering most important new features of the WordPress 3.0 and I will not make any double takes on it.

But new features include ONE particular enhancement and functionality that I think will bite many bloggers and cause a lot of pain and I want to share some thought on how it could be possibly avoided!

I believe that ANY new functionality should not be coming at cost of security!

Last Thursday Google team has announced release of the “Living Stories” to WordPress community as open source code. It contains several WordPress  plugins and a custom theme required to run properly. Good news is that code is portable to other themes and if you are willing to dig into code – instructions provided.

I think concept is extremely intriguing as it opens possibilities for bloggers to become the NICHE leader by providing most current updates on topic. Obviously I haven’t used this one yet and from everything I have read on it so far – you might be limited to stories within the Living Stories project, I would appreciate correction if I’m wrong here.