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Why Wordpress is now my Blog of Choice
The more I use Wordpress, the more I love it. It has 2 very
important features that Blogger doesn't yet support.
Number 1, you can set up Wordpress to automatically ping all
the RSS and blog feed directories every time you make a post.
This is a very powerful feature if you want your blog to get a
lot of traffic right away. On top of that, you'll be quickly
developing backlinks to your blog almost automatically.
Think about how long it can take you to build a regular site,
get the search engines to index it, get backlinks to improve your
listings, and then start getting traffic. A blog like Wordpress
can do all that "grunge" work for you automatically.
Number 2, Wordpress allows the use of Categories. Categories
are a very powerful way to improve the structure of your site
both for human visitors and for the search engines.
Let's say the topic of your site is Widgets. You could create
a Category for black widgets, one for orange widgets, and one for
green widgets.
Now when you add posts to your blog, you can choose which of
your categories your post belongs to. Now your blog will archive
your past posts not only by their month and date, as Blogger
does. But also by Category.
So if you have a visitor who is especially interested in green
widgets, they can easily find all your posts on green widgets.
They don't have to go through your entire archives to find them.
With a blog that has been around for awhile and has hundreds of
posts, that would be pretty discouraging. Using Categories makes
it very easy.
Categories are also very search engine friendly. When you use
Categories in your blog, there is a link on every one of your
pages to your categories. Think about this: would you rather be
#1 in the search engines for March 2003, or for green widgets,
one of the main keywords of your site?
By using the Category feature, you will eventually have
hundreds of pages on your site with links to green widgets, black
widgets, and orange widgets. All those backlinks to those
keywords can result in much higher search engine rankings.
Another neat feature is that you can easily create an RSS feed
for each of your categories. Then every time you post to your
blog, it could be pinging the Blog/RSS directories for each
feed!
Compare that to putting up a new page on a traditional
website. Even if the search engines find your new page right
away, it might be a month or two before it actually gets indexed
and starts drawing traffic. It might be a long time before it
enjoys a first page position for its keywords.
It's almost amazing how easy all this is with a
well-structured blog like Wordpress with Categories enabled!
For more tips and ideas on how to make money blogging, be sure
to visit my "Why Marketers Should Blog" weblog at (what else)
http://www.WhyMarketersShouldBlog.com
MORE RESOURCES updated Fri. April / 19 / 2024
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