Why Should You Choose WordPress Over Other Blogging Platforms

October 3, 2009 by · Leave a Comment

Extremely User Friendly

The best thing about WordPress is its user-friendly architecture, it was easier to install, manage and upgrade everything can be done with a single click, that’s the very special feature of WordPress over other blog platforms

Easier to install

WordPress is easier to install, after downloading the WordPress software you have to make little changes in the configuration file so that wordpress get installed in your server.

And most of the popular Cpanel powered servers comes with Fantastico that automatically installs the wordpress in your preferred location with a single click

Easier to upgrade

Recent wordpress software comes with automatic upgrade feature, so that now you can upgrade your version from your blog’s dashboard. Not only the software, the installed plug-in can be automatically upgraded whenever the up gradation is available.

Easier to Manage posts

Managing the posts with WordPress is just like an 1-2-3 process, those who having the basic knowledge of web browsing can easily add ,edit and delete posts with wordpress.

Easier to Control Design

Thousands of WordPress themes are freely available over web with the categories of single column, two columns, three columns and four columns, so everyone can choose the best structure and design that suits their needs. Customizing the design is pretty much simple so we have excellent control over design of our wordpress blog

 

Powerful and Expandable Plug-in

WordPress is expanding its features by its freely available plug-ins. The default wordpress blog can be expanded to complete CMS website, Review web site, Classifieds directory, Ecommerce website or any other category website by the way of using plug-in .

WordPress Extension directory: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

 

Excellent and growing support

WordPress is well supported by its user community and its developers. Thousands of websites, blogs and communities are available to support wordpress software and the support is growing rapidly.

WordPress official support : http://wordpress.org/support/

Best SEO Optimized architecture

WordPress software is best optimized for SEO because by making little changes, the simple wordpress blog can change into SEO super star blog. The wordpress software lets you to stick with web standards, changing permanent link structure ,meta tag customization , Clean code optimization ,better redirection handling , image optimization techniques enables blogs that gets better ranking with Search Engine Result Pages .

WordPress SEO Tutorials : http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/

Auto pinging Functionality

WordPress software offers auto pinging functionality with supplied websites so you have no need to ping every time when each post is made, wordpress will do the job for you. You just sit back and watch!

Trackback Feature

WordPress offers automatic track back future that enables to link back to the blogs who have already linked to your blog.

Conclusion:

WordPress also have various advantages that are not covered up here,but i hope that the above reasons are enough to choose wordpress over other blogging platforms.

I highly recommend choosing WordPress over other blogging platform, if you are planning to set up your blog online. Good luck.

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How to Choose Best Blogging Platform For Blogging Blogging Platforms Explained

October 3, 2009 by · 4 Comments

Choosing the right blogging platform is your first step of your online success, because selecting the wrong blog platforms for your blogging May turn you into various problems like

  1. Time taken for migrating to the new blogging platform
  2. Implications over your search engine traffic
  3. Costs paid over for changing the blog platforms (optional)

So selecting the best blogging platforms that exactly matches your requirement is the best way of getting succeeded in your blogging objective. Selecting the blogging platform is depends on the individuals requirements but the following factors will best address to help to identify the best blogging platforms that suits your needs.

Factors of choosing best blog platform

  1. What is my objective of blogging?
  2. How much I can spend over my blogging?
  3. What type of internet knowledge I have?
  4. How much time you planned you have spent with blogging?

Objective of blogging

Before going any decisions, you should most importantly think about the objective of the blogging , it will helps you to find out right blog platform than any other factors because if you are really serious about blogging means other factors like ( your budget over blogging, your knowledge of internet, your allocated time with blogging ) will become secondary and it will gives you to choose the best one.

So think about your objective of blogging!

For example I have come up with following sample objectives

High or Professional blog objective

Promoting customer relation through our blogging for our organization

I would like to promote my product or service with my blog

Blogging is my profession; I am really devoted for blogging

I am a frequent blogger, I have regular and huge readers base

I am serious about earning money through my blog

Freelance or amateur blog objectives

I would like to find my preferred date with my blog

I would like to share my photos with my friends and relatives

May be these sample objectives may differs with your objective weightage ( preferences of your objective ) but most of the objective will be categorizes as above .

Write down your objective – Make a decision

Everyone has their own objectives for their blogging that may not be completely covered up here, I greatly recommending you to write down your blog objective and think over it to come up with better decision. So if your blog objective is in high or professional objective you may set as other factors as secondary

For example

I have serious about blogging to generate revenue but

I have limited with spending money for standalone blog – Solution: you may find a sponsor for your hosting

I am a newbie to the blogging – Solution: you may allocate dedicate time for learn blogging quickly

Blogging Budget- How much money you are ready to spent for over blogging?

Your blogging budget is depends on your preferences over the following parameters of your choice

You blog with

  1. Self hosted with sub domain Vs Branded Domain Name with Dedicated Hosting
  2. Readymade free theme Vs Premium or Custom Designed

Self Hosted Blogging Platforms

Most of the popular blogging platforms ( WordPress, Blogger and etc) offering the self hosted blog service integrated with their domain name

Naturally self hosted blog URLs have the format of

Username.providername.com

E.g sakthiganesh.wordpress.com

Some of the popular self hosted blog platforms are

WordPress.com
Blogger.com
Movable Type
TypePad

You don’t have to pay anything for this self hosted blogs , most of the blog hosting providers offers this sub domain blogging service at free of cost.

Advantages of using self hosted Blog

Extremely cheap or almost free bog hosting

Most of the popular blog hosting platforms are free ( Typepad charges for self hosted edition)

Easier to setup and maintain

Self hosted blogs are easier to setup and maintain, you can easily setup your blog by filling the forms and you can manage your design with their prebuilt or readymade themes.

User friendly architecture

Managing the blog is easier with self hosted blogs , you can effectively manage your blog posts, anyone who have knowledge about basic browsing can easily manage the contents of blog.

Maintenance free – Automatically updated

Self hosted blogs doesn’t need to be maintained against spam, virus or some other means of security hazards , blog providers manage their servers and also the self hosted blogs automatically update their software periodically .So you have nothing to worry about it

Express Search Engine Indexing

Being powered with providers domain name self hosted blogs are indexed with search engines in a express way .Most importantly it was observed that blogs who have powered with bloggers are extremely indexed faster and appearing the Search Engine Result Pages frequently

Limitations or disadvantages of Self Hosted Blogs

Limited configuration available

Many of the self hosted blogs have the limited with configurations you can’t update the configuration as per your needs. Probably most of the self hosted blogs doesn’t allow to update plug-in are widgets that are available outside from the library.

Less control over their blogs

The greatest limitations with self hosted blogs are bloggers have limitation of control over their blogs. Bloggers will get frustrated when their blogs got their downtime due to the providers but no question will be asked with providers .Most of the time they can do nothing than reporting this they have less control over their blog visibility

Missing Branded Appearance

Being hosted with sub domains it was considered against professionalism that greatly missing to spread the brand impression with its viewers. And also having the username followed by blog provider name is not easier to spell and remember in all the time

Moving with dedicated hosted Platform is cumbersome

Moving to the self hosted platform to dedicated hosted platform is cumbersome for beginners, in most of the blog hosting providers it was also takes time for even for professionals. This is because due to the limitation of blog hosting providers for exporting posts, themes and settings.

Dedicated Blog Hosting

Dedicated blog hosting involves host their blog in their own domain and web space for doing this you need the following things

  1. Blog Software
  2. Dedicated Domain
  3. Web space or web hosting

Blog Software

The software which is used to setup and mange your blog. WordPress and many of the blog software ( Worpress.org not wordpress.com) come with free of cost to setup with your own domain and hosting . Other popular software providers are

WordPress.org
Movable Type
Expression Engine
WordPress.com
Drupal
Custom Made Blogs
Text Pattern
LiveJournal -
Mambo
Nucleus
b2evolution

Note :

Our blog (sakthiganesh.com) is powered with WordPress blog software

Dedicated Domain name

If you want to setup your own blog, you should buy the domain from the domain registrars, there are literally thousands of domain registrars are available some of the popular domain registrars are

  1. 1&1 Domain
  2. Namecheap.com
  3. Godaddy.com
  4. Netfirms.com

Notably 1&1 Domain offers excellent offers for domain registrations comes with handy features like domain management tools and other offers and they also offer free domain when buying the web hosting account

Special Note:

Some of the web hosting company like 1&1 Web Hosting offers domains for free of cost when purchase with web space account . So you can save money from spending money separately for domains

Web space for hosting Blog

After purchasing the domain name, you should have the place where you can host your blog software and other files so that it can be visible globally. Literally thousands of web hosting companies are offering the web space online not all of them providing the right service, only few of them offering the excellent service with superior customer support .

And also in case of Blog web hosting , it should works more than a ordinary web space ,the providers has to be well optimized for blog hosting service .

As per BestWebhostingFinder HostGator is most preferred for blog hosting service

Reference

Best Blog Hosting Company

Advantages of Dedicated Blog Hosting

Complete control over Blog

When you are hosting your blog with dedicated blog hosting you have complete control over your blogs, you have control over your blog design, architecture and extendibility. You can choose your design according to your preferences and no more limitations.

Expandable Feature

You can extend the blog by adding more plug-in and widgets that supported with your blog hosting software. You can add plug-in as per your requirement and extend the features of the blog that not being limited with default installation but also per your requirement

Greater Brand Visibility

When you are hosting with your domain name you are not only host your domain name on your own domain name, you are making your blog spelled by your viewers. That approach that dramatically increases your brand visibility that helps to increase the overall popularity of the blog in many ways . More importantly when your blog hosting gets successful then all of the credits will be remained with you not with other providers

Limitations or Disadvantages of Dedicated Blog Hosting

Technical Expertise:

Installing and maintain the blog software requires technical expertise of connecting with databases, web programming languages, security concerns and etc this can be possible only if you have enough knowledge in the particular domain otherwise you may spent additional money for hiring the professionals to doing this .

Costs required for maintaining blog hosts

Whenever you are going for dedicated hosting plan you should ready to pay for domain name, web hosting space, template design costs (optional) and other costs related to maintain the website.

Conclusion:

If you are really serious about blogging or you are serious blogger I advice to go for dedicated blog hosting ,but if you are a freelance writer or just started blogging you may try self hosted blogging for little time and choose dedicated blog hosting after some time .

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What is meant by Blog or Blogging Complete Tutorial

October 1, 2009 by · 8 Comments

Blogs and Blogging are became top mantra that everyone spells with today’s internet context, but it realized that everyone understands the better insight over Blog or Blogging concepts. Taking this with strong consideration, I am writing this article

What is Meant by Blog

Blog is the certain website that by default arranged in chronological order from most recent posts or website entry at top of the main page to main page of the older entries towards bottom. In other means Blog is certain web publication medium meant for publishing personnel thoughts arranged with chronological order.

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Explaining Blog With Simple English Video Podcast About Blog or Blogging

 

How Blog is different from Traditional Websites and Advantages of Blog over Website

Blogs are like Journal

Websites are basically constructed to stick with the particular topic where as the most of the blogs contain random thoughts or information and also website contents are arranged with certain order where as blog is arranged in an order where recently published posts present in top of the blogs.

Website’s Static Pages Vs Blog’s Dynamic Pages

Until the introduction of Content Management System (CMS) for controlling the content and navigation ,websites are once remained as static pages that needs to be change in their code to update the content .But in case of Blog it can be updated through their dashboard so it is completely dynamic . Even today ,most of the websites are still remaining static where as blogs are dynamically updated.

Blogs are user-friendly

One of the main aspect that behind the success of blog within short period of time is , the user-friendly architecture of blogs. From updating the contents, changing the navigation, it is pretty much simple than traditional websites. Blog’s user-friendly architecture enables anyone can easily manage information who doesn’t know even HTML or other web programming or scripting languages.

Blogs are cheaper

Another best aspect with blogs are , its comes cheaper much than creating and maintaining websites, setting up blogs and running blog is much cheaper or almost free for any one .Because most of the blog platforms providing free web space, control panel and other tools for blogging . Even you can set up your blog on your name or your preferred domain name. Some of the popular blogging platforms are Word press, Blogger, Type pad, Blog-journal and there are literally more than hundreds of blogging platforms available on net

Blogs are more interactive With viewers

Blogs are more interactive with viewers than traditional website for various reasons, most importantly blogs accepts viewer comments or discussion for posted articles whereas most of the traditional websites failed to have this feature.

Blogs are highly expandable

Blogs are highly expandable than traditional websites where we have the limitation of write our own scripts to expand the usage or adding the extra features whereas blog is highly expandable by adding the plug-in to expand the features of blog that doesn’t require to write your own code for do this. There are lots of plug-in are available from blog platform providers and thousands of 3rd party vendors.

Blogs are SEO Friendly

Blogs are more SEO friendly than websites they having more clean code, SEO friendly URL and easy meta tag customization feature than websites. Blogs are easily index able than websites due to their SEO friendly architecture in nature

Blogs are easily promoted than any websites

There are a lot of tools and website communities are available to promote blogs where as websites needs little optimization for doing this. There are more than hundreds of social networking website are available to promote blogs due to the flexible and expandable nature of blogs.

Blog are easily monetize
Blogs are easy to monetize.Its because of their easily customizable design and content through CMS ,one can easily create Ad-Spots and put the adverdisements.Blogger and WordPress ,the two popular web blogging software comes with the easy to add/remove external widgets/plugins, will help you insert advertisements in the any part of the blog( Header,footer,Before posts,Inside Posts,End of Posts,Footer,Sidebars)

You can select between these two software but i personally recommend to use WordPress for various reasons and you can find why from our Why Choose WordPress for Blogging section

With blogging the opportunities are endless , you can earn money by trying out Adsense – The contextual advertisement program ,Selling Ad-spaces, Promoting your product or service, Affiliate Marketing, In-line  Ads …

You can refer our money blogging guide section for more possible ways to earn money through blogging.

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