WordPress, a Search Engine Friendly Blogging Platform
I was reluctant to use WordPress for many years because I didn’t understand it.As I began making more blog posts, I could see an increase in my sales. I became a convert.
WordPress Is Search Engine Friendly
Search engines love WordPress and there’s a good reason for that.The WordPress developers made sure their software would be search engine friendly.Because of that, search engines are able to easily crawl WordPress blogs to index your content.Search engines especially love sites with original content.
Pinging Your Blog
Pinging is by far one of the best features of a WordPress because it tells a web blog tracking system that your blog has been updated. These pinging services are like search engine spiders for blogs.Pining is probably one of the quickest ways to tell the world your blog has new content. Find and sign up for as many pinging services as you can because a well pinged blog can attract many visitors.The URLs of the pinging services can be entered in the WordPress Settings – Writing – Update Services box.
Switching Themes Is Easy
After having developed many traditional HTML websites of my own, changing the design and layout is a major undertaking, yet one that needs to be done from time to time.Unfortunately, it’s easy to break funtionality in the process.
WordPress makes it very easy to switch themes without affecting the data.A theme is like fancy widow dressing around your blog. Post, pages, categories, and widgets don’t change, only the window dressing changes. WordPress is especially fun around major holidays when you can switch from summer to fall to Halloween to Thanksgiving to Christmas, and so on.
Make Your Own WordPress Themes
Developing your own WordPress themes is fun and easy with theme development software like Artisteer. Artisteer can also make themes for other popular CMS applications.Ever wish you could place the sidebars in a theme where ever you wanted to?Want a darker background?Or perhaps make a theme with rounded corners verses square? Here are two blogs I made with Artisteer, one about the best WordPress hosting and the other about free workout videos.If you don’t like a “bloggy” look, you can also make a WordPress blog look like a standard website with the help of a few plugins.
If you haven’t already given WordPress a try, I encourage you to do so.If you can click on icons to run other popular software programs, you can use WordPress.
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