You might have heard rumors about WordPress websites – For example you may have heard that Google gives priority to these websites. It is fairly certain that search engines give priority to certain websites and blogs, so now that blogging and pinging phase might be losing at least part of it’s effectiveness, now is the time for something new.
There’s strong evidence that WordPress blogs get better search rankings than other sites. We will explore that in more detail later, but for now just know that there are some search engine advantages to using WordPress tools. In some ways this tool is only good for those who understand the importance and advantages of blogging. Blogging is a form of website promotion and information sharing that can have very strong business implications.
WordPress Blogging
What is the so special about WordPress? WordPress is your simple and easy way to set up a blog with minimal programming requirements. WordPress gives you a plethora of themes, theme resources, and the ability to use images, and various blog designs and layouts. I can elaborate all day about the basic features and benefits of WordPress, but I have to admit that most of us use WordPress for one simple reason. We use WordPress to make money.
Here’s a quick example of how WordPress can change the way you blog forever:
You have a few websites and already are earning some decent money from them so you have a full time programmer on retainer. You’ve heard about WordPress and how it would allow you to set up your blogs with little or no effort.
You like the idea but don’t want to pay the programmer so you decide to tackle it yourself. It’s easy to downloaded the pages and open an FTP connection to your website. You then uploaded the documents and set up the database connection. Within minutes, you are working with a WordPress setup on your website. It was that easy.
You can now set up all the theme, feeds, and template tags you need. All done within an hour. After this, you would simply copy this setup to other websites and change the header information to the match requirements at your other websites. You accomplish all this in less than 30 minutes. Best of all you didn’t need to take up your programmer’s valuable time.
WordPress and high-end blogging tools like it can simplify the arduous process of setting up a blog or blogging system. WordPress is VERY easy.
Hi! I love wordpress and have all my blogs with them but today I got soooo frustrated with them! They charge for phone assistance, isn’t that crazy?! I purchased a domain from them but can’t link it to one of my blogs (it only gives me the option to use it for one specific blog). Other than this experience, I recommend WP to everyone who wants to create a blog 🙂
Hi Ashley – When I talk about WordPress, I a am referring to being self-hosted. This means you are on your OWN hosting account. While it is not free (like being on wordpress.com is), there are many advantages! If you want to talk about it, send me a message via the Contact Page
I actually uses WordPress, I won’t change it to others. Hope you’ll write about what’s the best and fastest themes in wordpress 😉
Stick around, Manu! More will be coming! 🙂 I will say this now… There is no one RIGHT theme for everyone! Each site will be different depending on your needs and what you want to do.
awesome article, thank you for sharing! I love wordpress, its makes my blogger life so easy
Thanks, Denise! It certainly is easier than having to learn HTML and all those other programming languages!
Never been a fan of wordpress .x
Nothing wrong with that, Hannah! I am curious why you prefer Blogspot over WordPress. Would you share your thoughts? Thanks!
Although we have WordPress, seems that Google would give priority to Blogger since they own it.
Good point Deb/James! I am not sure how much extra Google Juice a site gets because it is on Blogger, however, I know that results from Blogger do not generally seem to rank higher than self-hosted sites.
Maybe just the opposite is true – maybe Google realizes that folks on Blogger are not as serious as those with a self-hosted WordPress site and therefore they get a little bit of a penalty. I am just speculating here… I think I have something new to research! 🙂