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The Benefits Of Using Wordpress Hosting To Generate Traffic For Your Blog.

By: David Nelson

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Wordpress is the most fantastic blog and Content Management Systems available, it was originally used only by bloggers, but now its extra features have transformed it away from just a blogging system in to a fully fledged CMS.

There are thousands of reasons to use Wordpress, first, it is free, it is also very quick to install. With the right web host you can have it fully working with in just a few clicks of your mouse. On top of this, there are hundreds of themes, some are free or cheap, some premium. Wordpress developers have really gotten involved with it in a huge way so there are simply loads of plugins, there is a plug-in for almost anything you can imagine.

For SEO Wordpress is great, you have total control on the structure of your website, if you use the correct plugins you can optimize Wordpress so it'll show in Yahoo search engine listings with only a bit of work.

One negative point of Wordpress (and any other opensource web app) is that there are always upgrades. If you do not keep Wordpress updated you risk your site being exploited and having your blog used for illegal activities.

The theme supplied with Wordpress is quite basic and not bad for search engine optimisation, with a small amount of code there isn't much interrupting your post content. It's quite bland though, so if you're intending to have human readers you should maybe look into implementing a better template ASAP.

Creating articles and category creation is incredibly easy, with a few clicks you'll have a new category ready for use and with in a few minutes you will be able to publish your first post.

It is worth turning off the NoFollow attribute for commenters as this will entice visitors to post comments, many visitors post comments on blogs to get themselves backlinks. To cut down spam comments just install a plug-in named Akismet to get rid of most spammers. Akismet will find 99% of them, with the other 1% you can manually choose to allow or remove their comment.

Using other plug ins like the 'Related Post' plugin you can create contextual links between articles too, so once your readers have finished reading your initial post they will be prompted to read another on another subject.

Using Wordpress to generate more viewers to your actual web site is a fantastic idea. If you post lots of relevant information about your expert subject every day, push your blog posts to Twitter and all the Web 2.0 services, soon you will have many viewers reading your blog. At the same time your blog will become more important in Google's eyes for your topic and may move of your website to a better position for the terms you want to optimize to, plus your Alexa ranking will sky rocket. If you are wanting to make a website to sell then you want to have a great Alexa rank.

If you're looking to run more than one blog, Wordpress is also the perfect application for that. With the creation of Wordpress MU you can make and run lots of sites from a single Wordpress install. If you combine WordPress Mu with BuddyPress you have your very own social media network, and it's completely free!

In conclusion there is no better blogging software than Wordpress right now. With such a large community behind it, it just gets stronger and stronger each day. In time Wordpress will become a great content management system, however there aren't enough CMS themes for it yet. If you are searching for a great CMS then you should look at Joomla and use Wordpress for your main blog.

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