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The Advantages of a Blog are:
- A Blog can be a Website as well as a Blog
- You can set up your front page as a Static page or a blog
- You could even have a free one (less options and flexibility)
- You can install it into an existing website
- You can maintain it yourself
- You can choose from thousands of lay-out options
- Thousands of plugins to choose from
- Easy to have photos and videos on it.
- Wordpress makes all this easy
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Ongoing Free Information providing value leading to:
- draws visitors to you
- repeat visits
- relationship with reader (rapport)
- establishing trust (credibility)
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Google ‘loves’ blogs leading to:
- Better ranking
- More exposure
- More traffic
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Social book marking made easy twitter, face book etc leading to:
- more exposure
- more traffic
- Comments including the reader
- leading to back links, more traffic
- It costs as little $3.50 a month (Hosting and Domain Name)
Wordpress.org provides a platform with themes, widgets and plugins.
Wordpress also has a great support system if you need to find out how to do something.
Themes allow you to create the kind of Layout, set-up, appearance that you want.
There are lots of free ones to choose from.
This blog uses the Suffusion theme and there will be a tutorial on how to customise it to your liking.
Widgets are like boxes which can contain text, video, optin-forms and other application.
You can customize how many, which ones and were you want to use these.
Plug-ins are extras which help with running and optimising your blog.
Examples of the important ones are:
Akismet – Security and spam control
Help with Search engine optimisation :
All in one SEO
Dagon Design sitemap Generator
Google Xml sitemaps
RB Internal Links
Backup:
WP-DB manager
Social Bookmarking:
Face book share
Tweetmeme (retweets)
Onlywire (can share up to 40 sites with one click)
Sexy Bookmarks – gives people a choice which ones they want to use to share with.
Wordpress.org also gives the option of having
hidden and private and password protected pages
and if your blog is large enough to have a forum as part of the blog.
All of the Wordpress.org options I mentioned are free.
You can buy extra themes and plugins if you want.
So the only expense is the Hosting and Domain name.
You can get a Domain Name from Go Daddy and hosting from Hostagator.
Ipage provides a package deal of the Hosting for $3.50 a month, which includes your choice.
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