4 Good Reasons To Use WordPress

Many people resist things they don’t understand and that’s how I felt about WordPress for many years.  As I become more familiar with it and saw what it could do for my marketing, I became a convert.

 

WordPress Is Search Engine Friendly

 

Search engines love WordPress and there’s a good reason for that.  The WordPress developers went to the big search engines and asked them what they could do to make a search engine friendly product.  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.  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 have a theme with sidebars on the left instead of right, or perhaps on both sides?  Want a tabbed menu instead of a navigation bar?  Or perhaps change the width of the layout and have a bigger space for a header image?  Here are two blogs I made with Artisteer, one about scented candles and the other about strength training.  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.