Start Your Personal Or Business Blog With Wordpress
Share: Blogs have set off a trend in online media, being used for everything from angst chronicles to product marketing
. Best of all, this popular method of self-expression, earning and marketing among other things comes without a price. Yes, it's free.
Blogs can be hosted for free on various blogging platforms, of which one of the most popular is Wordpress. Fast, easy to use and rich in features, Wordpress has become the platform of choice for most sophisticated, conscious and serious bloggers - both personal and professional.
While starting to build a blog, one of the important things to look for is scalability - especially if you want to preserve the content and/or URL of the blog for a few years. Today, you may think you have far more resources than necessary. But a year down the line, you may have a hundred times as many visitors as you bargained for. This is when you begin to feel the need for a sound blogging platform beneath your feet, and wish you had begun with your own domain name rather than the free wordpress(dot)com URL.
Importing an existing blog into a Wordpress blog is a one-click affair if you are on any of the well-known blogging platforms such as Blogger or Livejournal. However, it is impossible to change the URL of a Wordpress(dot)com blog to your own domain.
In order to set up Wordpress on your own domain, the first thing to do is to install the script. This is also a one-click affair with most web hosts, simply requiring you to select "Wordpress" under "script to install". Once registered, you can choose to start posting immediately, or to set further preferences.
Wordpress has a large collection of themes to form your blog header, footer, sidebar and background. Many of these are free, while others are premium and require a fee. Themes can be customizable to varying degrees - from themes that barely allow custom headers to ones that stand as a tall backbone for any structure you may erect around them.
Personal bloggers prefer Wordpress because of the advanced categorizing and tagging, which allow them to browse all Wordpress posts on a particular topic rather than sifting through Google constantly.
Professional bloggers take comfort and pride in the plethora of features available through widgets and plugins - from the search engine optimization plugins to e-Commerce solutions and directory listings, you have it all.
Every blogger, without exception, loves the Akismet spam blocker - a highly intelligent plugin that lets blogs remain spam-free even without the word verifications that make a commenter's life hell.
For people who desire some control over their blogging software but are not coders themselves, Wordpress is the perfect option. It allows an amazing degree of freedom, with a minimal learning curve and high degree of user-friendliness. It takes hardly five minutes to set up a blog and start posting, and costs absolutely nothing at all. So... why wait?
by: Gen Wright
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