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#1: The Most Popular Blog Platform
WordPress is the most popular Blog platform in the web2.0 world. Not just a large amount of people is using it, but also some big guys like NYT, CNN and Mashable are using it too. If something is popular, it will get lots of attention, especially in the internet. If it gets lots of attention, geeks will try to “hack” it and make it better. It is like buying a car, no one would like to buy a car from a company which doesn’t have chain stores. When your car breaks, you want to get help as fast as possible, it is the same thing to blog platforms.
#2: DIY(Design It Yourself)
One great advantage that makes WordPress stand out from the mass blog platforms is something called “plugins”(more than 20,100). “Plugins” are like the apps on your smart phones. And the WordPress is like your smart phone. You can install lots of cool and useful plugins on your WP depends on your own needs. Whether you want to blog music, movies, article or photos, you can find helpful plugins that suit you at wordpress.org/extend/plugins. If you are someone like me that love to design your own stuff, you will definitely appreciate for your choice on WP later. You can almost find any plugin you can think of.
#3: Not Just A Blog Platform
WP doesn’t only help you build an awesome blog, but also help you build reliable business sites, forums and membership sites. No coding required in most of the situations, you just need to simply click the plugins. If you want to build a profitable site, WP can help you build an online store that allows people to buy the goods you want to sell. I choose to use WP to help me build a site that provides leadership skills and programs for youth, and it works pretty well. In other words, no matter what you want to do, if you can dream it, you can make it on WP. most of the time:)
#4 For The Sake of SEO(Search Engine Optimization)
If you want to make your site jump to the first page of Google, Yahoo, Bing or some other search engines that you know, SEO is something you really need to take care of. For bloggers, the content is King, SEO is the Queen. WP is the best platform that can help you to ace in SEO. Not only bloggers think this way, but also giant like Matt Cutts thinks this way. You don’t really need to cost thousands of dollars for the SEO service; you can do it yourself with just some SEO plugins. It is that simple.
I have tried several blogging platforms, finally I decide to stick with WordPress. It is pretty simple to use and saves me a huge amount of time which is invaluable to me.
Question: What do you think about WP, or any other blog platforms?
