Many people resist things they don’t understand and that’s how I felt about WordPress for many years.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 worked with the search engines to ensure that WordPress would be easily crawled and indexed. Because of that, the search engines are able to crawl through posts, pages, and categories to find and index your content. All you need is good 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. It’s one of the fastest ways to tell the world that you’ve got new content. Find and sign up for as many pinging services as you can because a well pinged blog can attract many visitors. You can enter their URLs in the WordPress Settings – Writing – Update Services.
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, things often get broken in the process.
WordPress makes it very easy to switch themes without affecting the data. A theme is like a pair of window curtains around your blog.The blog’s content won’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. It’s also possible to make a blog look very much like a traditional HTML site 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 use word-processing software, you can use WordPress.
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