WordPress So Popular with IM

I would say people choose wordpress because it is easy to post content to, looks nicer than blogger, and is easier to customize. The first website I'm trying out is wordpress. I chose it because it seems like I can actually handle it. That might actually be another reason. Since this is a newby heavy field, they all flock to what seems the easiest and cost the least, hence wordpress.

Only among those that don't know any better... (and using it for everything)
Mainly, because it is an easy to use publishing tool.

Even tho the above posts pretty well outlined it, the keyword in question is: easy

- easy to install
- easy to use
- easy to tweak (different aspects, including the look, adding plugins etc etc..)
- easy to update

Can anybody explain me this:

if it is so easy to tweak different aspects, including the look -why is this money making forum full of stoopid technical questions regarding customization of WP???

And why I haven't seen any of you answering those "easy" questions around here...?

Wordpress is easy to set up and use compared to many other ways you could build a website. There are tons of themes and plugins available and tutorials are everywhere. For someone with little to no knowledge in making websites, Wordpress makes it possible for them to create their own sites.

I think word press is easy for most people to use, but I also feel that word press is slow and sluggish at times.
Trouble with using word press is that google changed it's ranking system March 29,2011 and tons of press-release sites and word press sites no longer are ranked as they once were.
Some sites fell back over 1000 pages.
Google is trying to get to the place of charging business in all categories, and the highest paying customers get the highest rankings.
You can see this happening in Googles listings for, Lawyers,Real Estate,Music Download sites and the list goes on.
Soon SEO techniques won't matter at all.
People will all have to pay, just like your local phone book !!

Well...take care all

Umm ... the NUMBER ONE reason is because with wordpress, almost any site you create can get to page 1 on Google without much SEO effort.

It's a great platform to use, easy to get a site up. But you're wrong about MOST blogs being make money online blogs. There's millions of blogs that aren't MMO blogs, and they are some of the most interesting and entertaining sites around. You usually find what you are looking for so if you are focused on MMO, that's what you see.

I read blogs all the time that have nothing to with MMO, so no ... Google is not going to penalize Wordpress blogs. They are going and have been penalizing thin affiliate sites, whether they are Wordpress or just plain html.

I don't think G flags a site just for being WP. That would be daft and nothing in the SERPs indicate they do that.

I like WP because its the main alternative to Blogger, which I started with and dumped for reasons having to do with Blogger and nothing to do with the blog format.

Why I like WP: its built with blogging in mind. Blogs are interactve, interactivity is a good tool for building trust, authority, and a steady following. All of which are assets if you're looking at the long-haul approach, rather than the quick buck mentality you (wrongly) accuse them off.

WP has a boat load of free and commercial themes to choose from. And tons of good plug-ins. That makes a WP launch easier than a static site you're building from scratch. Especially if coding and scripting aren't your strong suits.

It really depends on what you want to do with the site. WP may be a perfect fit or a bad choice. It just depends on how it fits in with your marketing strategy and goals.

That is reason enough for me to consider WP first, and static sites second. Though for a second, micro-niche site (my WP site is broader in scope), I'm considering a static template instead of WP. That's because I'm not planning to do the things with it I do with WP: its aimed at promoting one main affiliate product in one micro-nice with a small set of keywords I'm researching for it now; I don't intend to update it daily as I do with my WP site, nor seek dialogue through comments.

I'm leaning toward the static site as your basic sniper site: I want to primarily focus it on one affiliate product that is a physical product, pays a good commission, and includes residuals. I have enough familiarity with the market its aimed at, and enough writing skill, to quickly put the content up that I need to be SEO optimized for PR and sell the product - though a lot of offsite work will need to be done as well to rank it and generate traffic. This is aiming for quick income to feed into my larger and longer-term project.

Who says you can't do both?

Wordpress is fast becoming the industry standard in web development, it's not JUST in IM, but I think we IMers just have our finger on the pulse a little more than the average Joe with a golf club website or something.

Google loves Wordpress, I highly doubt there are (or ever will be) red flags raised just for using it as a platform for web creation.

Cheers,
Dave

I like it because the look and menus are easy to change. Forms are easy to install, pics are resized in a snap, analytics are easy, and if I am making the site for a client and they don't like the look I can change the entire site in a minute with a new theme.

(try spending a week building an html site only to have your client tell you they don't like it and you have to rebuild everything… sucks -)

Its free, easy to use, full of features, and is believed to rank better on Google!

1. Easy to install and make it look decent
2. All the plugins you could ever think of
3. Has an amazing interface to make posts/pages with
4. Just makes everything easier and allows commenting

Wordpress is commonly used by people that don't want to deal with a whole lot of techie stuff... yet they almost always are the ones paying someone else to modify or update or transfer said wordpress sites.

In reality sites should be well planned out to prevent having to deal with migration issues. Wordpress is great for some sites and Joomla is great for other sites... you really have to think about what you want to accomplish with a site before you set it up. Then choose a CMS/Blog platform based on that.

Even if there is a learning curve with other platforms you will still run into the same issues you would with Wordpress. You are still going to be dealing with finding the right theme, and then customizing that to suit your needs. Beyond that you will still have to know how to secure a site, back it up, restore it, etc. or you'll end up paying someone to do that for you.