Why are 99% of marketers only using wordpress sites? how did this frenzy start?

12 years ago

It is a well known fact that google like wordpress and it is a good SEO and user-friendly platform. So, probably this is why so many people use wordpress. Moreover, not everyone knows php and the other IT languages. Wordpress is easy to operate and give you a wide range of options.

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geoffnotjeff

12 years ago

SEO friendly, easy to install and customize, why wouldnt you use it? I can build a site in a day with wordpress that might take me a week or a month without the platform.

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K Mec

12 years ago

Originally Posted by geoffnotjeff

SEO friendly, easy to install and customize, why wouldnt you use it? I can build a site in a day with wordpress that might take me a week or a month without the platform.

Yes, I agree...
I tried drupal

I tried jumala

I tried wordpress

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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by vladdarius

But really, how did people start preferring wordpress over all other sites?

It just became self-perpetuating, I think.

When enough people are using it, the number of availabe themes, gadgets, widgets, add-ons and stuff all increases exponentially. And then people recommend Wordpress because those things are all available. And so are countless free "tutorials" on YouTube, and all this sort of stuff. "You can always get help, if you're stuck with Wordpress".

And it's free, of course - which doesn't hurt.

I don't blame people for jumping on the bandwagon, in those circumstances.

You'd need a real reason not to use Wordpress. (I have one, and don't use it, myself).

Originally Posted by peter0berts

It is a well known fact that google like wordpress

Well-known, yes.

"Fact", no.

It's nonsense, actually. The extent to which Google "likes" a site isn't intrinsically connected with the software from which the site's made. It's actually just one of those ever-prevalent and increasingly pervasive urban myths of internet marketing.

It's true that Wordpress (just like some other content management systems) has available some add-ons which are useful aids to SEO, but that's a very different statement from "Google likes Wordpress".

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RedShifted

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

You'd need a real reason not to use Wordpress. (I have one, and don't use it, myself).

Take away selling at its best. I know thats not what you're doing, but thats the type of stuff that makes people very curious.

Care to explain why not?

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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by RedShifted

Take away selling at its best.

Sorry - not intended that way at all!

I just didn't want to hijack the thread by listing all my own reasons for not using Wordpress, when the real discussion here is why so many do use it. (I have many reasons, but my main one is simply that I'm technophobic and incompetent and I find it terribly difficult and awkward and inconvenient and time-consuming, in contrast to other CMS's which I can use far more easily and with which I can quickly and easily do absolutely everything I need to be able to do).

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RedShifted

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Sorry - not intended that way at all!

I just didn't want to hijack the thread by listing all my own reasons for not using Wordpress, when the real discussion here is why so many do use it. (I have many reasons, but my main one is simply that I'm technophobic and incompetent and I find it terribly difficult and time-consuming, in contrast to other CMS's which I can use far more easily and with which I can do absolutely everything I need to be able to do).

Very useful information. I appreciate it!

I always thought wordpress was the "easier" CMS to use, so hearing this has definitely opened my mind.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by santella

Well google loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooves wordpress
plain and simple.

Plain and simple, possibly.

True? No, not at all - complete nonsense.

(Just a little tip, but sometimes it helps to read the thread before replying to it!

).

Originally Posted by RedShifted

I always thought wordpress was the "easier" CMS to use, so hearing this has definitely opened my mind.

The thing is: so many people here use Wordpress, and there are so many thousands of comments about "how easy it is" (and I do accept that it must be, for many people), that some of the people who find it a total pain in the neck (and there are many of us - we come out of the woodwork occasionally in threads with titles like "Do You Hate Wordpress Too?" where we can post relatively freely because there are quite a few of us all together and that gives us the confidence to speak our minds and not worry that everyone else is laughing at us!) are embarrassed to say so. But I don't care, for myself, because everyone here who's seen my posts already knows that I'm technophobic and incompetent, anyway.

I must admit, every time I see those long, rambling threads which start off with an apparently dead simple question about "How do I change the size of the lettering for a couple of lines?" or whatever (always something completely trivial that I can do in half a second, myself, without Wordpress!), I read through all the replies and all the confusing, conflicted information given, thinking to myself "Boy, am I glad I don't use this!", and then eventually Anne Pottinger or Istvan Horvath will post a reliable, factual answer that tells the OP what he wanted to know and maybe explains to six other people where they've got it all wrong ... and this doesn't exactly give me an incentive to switch to Wordpress.

Here's an example!

To a technophobe like me, you have to understand HTML and/or something called "CSS" (whatever that is) even to understand what these people are talking about ...

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ibeardsley 12 years ago

Having used Dreamweaver for about 6 years and WP for only the last year I am much more comfortable with Dreamweaver but I can see the attraction of WP.
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AUKev 12 years ago

I built my first website in a text editor called TextPad back in 1997. Every time I added a new page, I had to update the 'header' on every page in the website and FTP it back up to my web server.

Then I tried MS Frontpage. Somewhat WYSIWYG but added a ton of Internet Explorer only code and required your website to be on a Microsoft server.

Then Dreamweaver. Nice tool. WYSIWYG with auto FTP and ability to handle version control.

Now on to WordPress. On the server so I can update sites anywhere in the world using any device. Pretty much can run on any server. Plugins - Plugins - Plugins. If I need it, someone has already done it, or I can hire someone to do it for <$100.

Hard to beat those features.
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Go4DBest

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

To a technophobe like me, you have to understand HTML and/or something called "CSS" (whatever that is) even to understand what these people are talking about ...

This goes to show that Wordpress is not for everyone who doesn't want or doesn't have the time to learn more about wordpress.

I have some issues with wordpress too but I welcome challenges.

Anyway, whatever works with you, stick with it.

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Hamida Harland 12 years ago

I started using it because it was the easiest way for me to get a site up quickly. I did start out with html sites when I first got into IM years ago, but once I learned Wordpress I'd never go back.

You do need a bit of technical knowledge and it does help to know a little about html and CSS but generally I just Google whatever I need to know at the time. I've never failed to find an answer about a Wordpress problem yet.
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magiclouie

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Sorry - not intended that way at all!

I just didn't want to hijack the thread by listing all my own reasons for not using Wordpress, when the real discussion here is why so many do use it. (I have many reasons, but my main one is simply that I'm technophobic and incompetent and I find it terribly difficult and time-consuming, in contrast to other CMS's which I can use far more easily and with which I can do absolutely everything I need to be able to do).

I am sorry Alexa but if I am not mistaken you do love Weebly.

Anyway, back to the main topic, if not most, many of the Internet Marketers use Wordpress because of the following:

1. Wordpress is absolutely FREE and Open Source.
2. Plugins give you more functionality.
3. Lots of themes available that let you style your site.
4. You can just easily add a blog to your site.
5. This is quite debatable but it's easy to keep wordpress secure.
6. Wordpress sites are accessible.
7. Using wordpress, your site can grow with you.

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GMD

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

It just became self-perpetuating, I think.

In other words, you don't know.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

You'd need a real reason not to use Wordpress. (I have one, and don't use it, myself).

"One"? One reason that you don's use it? What is it?

Oh wait...

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Sorry - not intended that way at all!

I just didn't want to hijack the thread by listing all my own reasons for not using Wordpress, when the real discussion here is why so many do use it.

You actually have many reasons? As for "hijacking" the thread don't worry:

Here's what Paul Myers writes on the subject:

Originally Posted by Paul Myers

Ummm... Even the moderators don't try to dictate how relevant drift happens in a thread.

Paul

So you're safe. Even if the thread is about why people do something, it's perfectly okay to list reasons as to why people don't. :rolleyes:

Anyway, there's a few reasons as to why Wordpress is so popular (and I note this as a person, myself, that doesn't use the platform either):

Remember, that while 99% of marketers (as you say) use Wordpress, the same 99% don't have much front end or back end webdesign skills (there's a reason why there's so many people out there offering their design and logo services!). That being said...

...one doesn't need to learn the mechanics of webdesign. It's known that Wordpress is a platform that's open source, customizable, and allows one to design a site, maintain it and run it.

Throw in the millions of plugins and Wordpress is powerful enough to run any kind of website using the WP platform.

And as mentioned previous, it's free (but REMEMBER: while WP is know for being easy to use and implement, it's the plugins that in the end cause the most issues -- therefore, know your plugin before you install it on your WP site!).

The platform seems to work for a lot of people and best of all the popular use of it has spawned countless businesses and products that IM folks are making a killing on. It's good business all around...

...I mean with Google all but killing the theory and practice being article marketing / syndication with their Panda updates and now their Disavow Links Tools (not to mention Matt Cutts and John Mu of Google masterfully slamming the very fact that is can actually work in today's new web environment), IMers need new ways to make money online and the WP platform is a great way to open up news markets.

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Glen Barnhardt

12 years ago

I would agree with Peter. I've been in computers for almost 30 years and I've been in InternetMarketing since 1999. Wordpress was a platform that when implemented got picked up by Google very quickly and for that reason many began to use it. Today it's even better because of the plugins that are available for it for SEO, Membership Sites, Quick Sales letters and Squeeze Pages, Simple Audio and Video implementations. So it's just simpler than ever. I'm a programmer and very technical yet for my Internet Marketing I still use WordPress. From a programming standpoint I can create plugins and themes to do anything I want it to. It just makes sense.

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RedShifted

12 years ago

I don't know. You think it has anything to do with popularity? lol.

Or maybe the massive amount of plugins they have?
I know there are better CMS's that you can use, but since I've already learned wordpress, and it took quite some time, I don't plan on changing my CMS anytime soon.

Only a year ago I was still using dreamweaver. I was actually using dreamweaver for about 7 years, and STILL did not understand how to do A LOT of things. So when I found wordpress, and realized how much time it saved me, I told myself I'd never stop using wordpress. I just honestly love it.

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kindsvater

12 years ago

I try and avoid it, but understand why others use it: it's easy. Just login without needing to learn how to create files and learn a lot of html. Themes make changing the layout easy, and plugins are simple to use.

Reasons not to use it?

- Continuous updates of the CMS and plugins, and then something will not work right because it has not been updated.
- Hack and spam magnet.
- Lose the database and you're toast.
- Many scripts are easier to use with html instead of trying to integrate with WP.
- Space and memory hog.

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Dan Hower

12 years ago

Originally Posted by kindsvater

I try and avoid it, but understand why others use it: it's easy. Just login without needing to learn how to create files and learn a lot of html. Themes make changing the layout easy, and plugins are simple to use.

Reasons not to use it?

- Continuous updates of the CMS and plugins, and then something will not work right because it has not been updated.
- Hack and spam magnet.
- Lose the database and you're toast.
- Many scripts are easier to use with html instead of trying to integrate with WP.
- Space and memory hog.

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Hi Vadder,
that's exactly why I stopped using WP.

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SteveSRS

12 years ago

Originally Posted by kindsvater

Reasons not to use it?
- Continuous updates of the CMS and plugins, and then something will not work right because it has not been updated.
- Hack and spam magnet.
- Lose the database and you're toast.
- Many scripts are easier to use with html instead of trying to integrate with WP.
- Space and memory hog.
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-updates are good, lack of updates is BAD.. not a very good reason but understandable
-true but the this is due to USER fault not because of the platform..
- duuh, this is with EVERY database driven website.. and again many options (read free plugins) to automatically regularly back-ups. Bad argument
- complete NONSENSE. WordPress is VERY lightweight actually one of the biggest reasons it is so successful

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David McGimpsey 11 years ago

Originally Posted by kindsvater

- Hack and spam magnet.
- Lose the database and you're toast.
- Space and memory hog.

Yes!

I do like WordPress, and I use it often, but these are really strong reasons to consider whether a particular project/website really needs it.

Regarding "Google loves WordPress"... no it doesn't, Google loves a well structured, well-formed, content-rich site (WordPress or otherwise.)
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SteveJohnson

12 years ago

WordPress itself has nothing to do with SEO - good or bad. Google doesn't like WP. Google doesn't care about WP. The SEs like sites that comply with HTML standards for page structure, which the standard WP themes have done since the beginning.

People like WP because they don't have to know coding or HTML, and it takes a minimal amount of time to get a simple site up and running. If you have content written, and you use the one-click install (ughhhh!) you could conceivably have a site up within 20 minutes of buying a domain name. HUGE time saver, and we all know time is money

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by SteveJohnson

WordPress itself has nothing to do with SEO - good or bad. Google doesn't like WP. Google doesn't care about WP. The SEs like sites that comply with HTML standards for page structure, which the standard WP themes have done since the beginning.

People like WP because they don't have to know coding or HTML, and it takes a minimal amount of time to get a simple site up and running. If you have content written, and you use the one-click install (ughhhh!) you could conceivably have a site up within 20 minutes of buying a domain name. HUGE time saver, and we all know time is money

Yes and no. Google doesn't prefer WP, but WP has/had some very beneficial features for SEO.

If we go back about a decade, WP had the calendar function, which worked as a site map and was good at getting pages indexed. It also offered an RSS pheed, track backs, tags, etc., each greatly helping with SEO without the user needing to do anything.

Because of this, people that weren't great with SEO were getting good rankings "automatically".

But IMO, the main reason WP took off when other blogging platforms didn't, was simply because WP was free. A decade ago, not all that many major blogging platforms were free.

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Glen Barnhardt

12 years ago

Originally Posted by SteveJohnson

WordPress itself has nothing to do with SEO

Steve I agree with you that, out of the box WordPress doesn't have much to do with SEO.

Because basically there is no content.

But you do have to agree that there are some really fantastic plugins for Wordpress that allow you to optimize your content for SEO. And these plugins make it much easier for those who don't want to study SEO strategies.

Seasoned professionals will learn all the basics of SEO such as on-page and off-page optimizations including proper back-linking strategies. But for those who have no clue these plugins make it so that just about anybody can rank there site with a bit of effort.

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magiclouie

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Glen Barnhardt

Steve I agree with you that, out of the box WordPress doesn't have much to do with SEO.

Because basically there is no content.

But you do have to agree that there are some really fantastic plugins for Wordpress that allow you to optimize your content for SEO. And these plugins make it much easier for those who don't want to study SEO strategies.

Seasoned professionals will learn all the basics of SEO such as on-page and off-page optimizations including proper back-linking strategies. But for those who have no clue these plugins make it so that just about anybody can rank there site with a bit of effort.

I couldn't have said it better myself. You nailed it.

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Mike Grant 11 years ago

Originally Posted by SteveJohnson

WordPress itself has nothing to do with SEO - good or bad.

Not true.

Wordpress is a pretty bloated CMS. The code is often poorly constructed which increases server calls and load times. Load times is a very important and underutilized SEO tactic.
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- realc4ever 11 years ago
  
  since wordpress is free, then yes, it will be more popular than paid software.
  
  i have used wordpress but i am not overly impressed with it.
  it's good if you want to build one blog and have members needing to sign up.
  
  other than that, i prefer Xsitepro.
  
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Go4DBest

12 years ago

I was waiting for the Joomla and Drupal lovers to comment here.

Anyway, people use wordpress because it's user friendly and Alexa Smith nailed it.

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OldLodgeSkins 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Go4DBest

I was waiting for the Joomla and Drupal lovers to comment here.

Anyway, people use wordpress because it's user friendly and Alexa Smith nailed it.

Well, I thought of it for a second, but the OP's question was not what to use, but how did IM people come to treating WordPress nearly like a religion... Which IMHO has already been answered.
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neighborhub

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Go4DBest

I was waiting for the Joomla and Drupal lovers to comment here.

Anyway, people use wordpress because it's user friendly and Alexa Smith nailed it.

I am surprised Joomla lovers haven't hopped into the post yet. I have only made a couple updates to Wordpress and its pretty foreign to me overall.
I am however a near exclusive user of Joomla from simple sites to 20,000 page sites with 10,000 users.

Anyone here use both and have some preference? I always thought wordpress had limited multi user level structure.

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brentb

12 years ago

Originally Posted by neighborhub

I am surprised Joomla lovers haven't hopped into the post yet. I have only made a couple updates to Wordpress and its pretty foreign to me overall.
I am however a near exclusive user of Joomla from simple sites to 20,000 page sites with 10,000 users.

Anyone here use both and have some preference? I always thought wordpress had limited multi user level structure.

Joomla is more secure, less spam attacks, greater functionality outside of blogging functions (which Wordpress vs Joomla is pretty equal blog vs blog).

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12 years ago

It probably became popular with the links at the bottom of the themes and websites, including word of mouth and forum discussions.

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santella 12 years ago

Well google loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooves wordpress
plain and simple.
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travlinguy

12 years ago

Where did you get the 99% figure? I think you're way off.

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vladdarius 12 years ago

Originally Posted by travlinguy

Where did you get the 99% figure? I think you're way off.

the biggest moneymakers online or the so-perceived ones use that figure all the time lol...

i figured it's so commonly used that people won't question it
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ebusinesstutor 12 years ago

Originally Posted by travlinguy

Where did you get the 99% figure? I think you're way off.

99% of all statistics are made up...including this one.
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franktwin

12 years ago

I believe a lot of people choose word press as the platform because of its expandable platform and its content user management system and its fairly easy to customize.

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vladdarius

12 years ago

this info is so awesome, i am starting to get a an idea why wordpress is what it is

besides the info i got from sites on google and wikipedia

thanks for your answers you guys

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travlinguy

12 years ago

99% of the people who want to make a point on this and other anonymous forums make up their own statistics.

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RedShifted 12 years ago

Originally Posted by travlinguy

99% of the people who want to make a point on this and other anonymous forums make up their own statistics.

Thats not true. Its been proven by statistics that only 137% of people exagerate.
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vladdarius

12 years ago

so the truth is that google doesn't care which platform you use in terms of ranking? from an seo perspective it doesn't really matter? or better yet it doesn't matter anymore?

i am sure many of you heard someone saying that after they have switched to wordpress they saw a nice boosting in their ranking....

is that just history now?

or was it just BS all in all ...

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James Clark 12 years ago

To the Op. When I installed my Word Press Blog on a domain name started getting traffic right away. I don't know why but that just happen. I had a few articles ready to go. But I don't write articles for Search Engines never did.

I write articles for people. Now, I have enough experience to do a little tracking and I found out the traffic was coming from Google. So, being a smart guy started to weave a few Keywords in the articles. And it got better. (deep breath)

So, I left the process alone. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Honestly, I write a blog post about once a month. As a matter of fact took the whole summer of to play golf and travel.
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mcstew

12 years ago

Three reasons:

1. Free
2. Massive support
3. Easy to use

The fact that WordPress is free sold me on it instantly. And I'm somewhat of a tech geek that had access to Dreamweaver, Coffee Cup HTML, and a bunch of random web site design software that I have forgotten about over the years. But being free wasn't enough.
The learning curve on WP is ridiculously low. If you have a host like HostGator or Blue Host or any hosting company for that matter you usually have access to Fantastico which can install WP on your site with the click of a button.
And then there is the massive amount of plugins and themes available to customize your site. I mean WordPress used to be mostly about blogging. But look what you can do with it now. Membership sites, social networks, blog networks, forums and ecommerce. And all of this can be achieved by plugins.

There's probably better individual solutions but none are as easy to use or cheap as using WordPress. My two cents.

Mark

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magiclouie

12 years ago

Another thing why I like wordpress is that this CMS gives us the flexibility of having multiple users with varying levels of authorizations. This option enables highly configurable roles defined as:

Super Administrator – Access to the blog network administration features controlling the entire network.
Administrator - Access to all the administration features.
Editor – Can publish and manage posts and pages as well as manage other users’ posts, etc.
Author – Can publish and manage their own posts.
Contributor – Can write and manage their posts, but can not publish them.
Subscriber - Can only manage their profile which means read comments, make comments, receive newsletters and announcements, etc.

What's more, plugging Into Plugins

Developers are constantly developing plugins for WordPress that will help us do just about anything we can imagine. There are developers that design new plugins to be installed with a few clicks. It is no longer absolutely necessary to hire a web developer in order to add features such as:

Navigation bars
Contact forms
Page navigation
Image sliders
Flash
Security
Maps
Photo galleries
Shopping carts
Translation widgets
Calendars

On the other hand, there are also disadvantages and I won't mention that here.

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MarkTrueman

12 years ago

Its not about it being the easiest to use (although WordPress is relatively easy to use), it is about the fact that WordPress has a huge community. And because of this huge community there is always someone else who ran into the same problem as you are running into right now no matter what it may be. So any problem is relatively easy to solve with a quick search on Google.

There is also the matter of flexibility. No matter what you are trying to do there is probably a plugin for it. Because of it's huge community, no matter what unique thing you are trying to do on your site, there are probably other people who have tried to do similar things on their site.

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Paul Gram

12 years ago

I don't know why anyone else uses Wordpress but we use it because it's proven, very fast, easy, and just WORKS.

You can use/update from any platform/computer/device and it can look however you want it to look.

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Soulstreak

12 years ago

I just thought wordpress was good because it had plenty of template and plugins and nice clean html. I always recommend it to people, but only half the time do I even use it myself.

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brentb

12 years ago

I used Wordpress once and I immediately regretted it. The few things that Wordpress can't do (or can't do easily) I just assumed it could since they are pretty basic and everyone says its so easy.

One example I wanted to put static skyscraper banners on the outside of the blog roll (not inside where you put the widgets), did you know its not a very simple task to accomplish? By the time I went through and re programmed the blog roll part, I could have just coded what I needed from scratch.

Also, I started getting spam comments about 7 days after the initial install, before any kind of launch.

Basically, I don't like wordpress.

I personally prefer coding my own dynamic sites and will occasionally use Joomla.

Also, you have higher security vulnerabilities in this order Wordpress>Joomla>Proprietary Code

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brentb 12 years ago

I also laugh hysterically when people talk about these huge site builds, (ie, the next facebook, an ad network, ppc tracking service) and I ask what do you plan to build it on, they say "Wordpress" and I ask "The Blogging Platform?" and they are like "No no, not that Wordpress!"
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eternalsongbird

12 years ago

Well, Wordpress is doing good and earning people's faith. Google respect wordpress as well. This is the reason of popularity I guess.

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12 years ago

Vladdarius... you asked why we started to use wp in the begining and I think most of the answers until now say why we use it now...

Let me answer as I know exactly why i've started to use it: In 5 minutes i was able to have a ready website, just add the content and I was set! This helped me get faster to the most important part which is traffic.

IMO, wordpress really changed the internet and put a spotlight on content marketing because using this platform removed the technological barriers and the only thing that mattered was the content.. and it still does.

Anyone can have a website (usually wordpress) but the content is what makes you or breaks you, if i may say so.

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wanderinglex

12 years ago

Wordpress is easy to use, fairly flexible, has a lot of ready made plugins and themes and a huge developer and user communities and is very fast and bug-free. It's perfect for someone starting out and can be used for a looong time before you need to move on to a better/custom solution. That's why everyone uses it for almost everything these days...

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MelanieandMiles

12 years ago

For us, it is all about WordPress for 3 reasons..

1. It works! Sites rank well, are easy to optimize for search engines which means you can focus on converting sales vs. 'trying to figure out how this whole internet thing works'
2. Its simple! Whether you want to change themes, linking structures or add SEO plugins, a shopping cart and other functionality, it is all a few clicks away. You don't even need to understand FTP anymore!
3. Its Open Source! There are literally thousands of computer programmers who work together and donate their time to make sure it not only is simple and it works, but that it keeps getting better over time.

We've been to a local WordCamp meeting and have heard Matt Mullenweg deliver The State of WordPress speech to a theater of 700 people... What other CMS has that kind of culture built around it?

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Cartellian

12 years ago

Originally Posted by MelanieandMiles

1. It works! Sites rank well, are easy to optimize for search engines which means you can focus on converting sales vs. 'trying to figure out how this whole internet thing works'
2. Its simple! Whether you want to change themes, linking structures or add SEO plugins, a shopping cart and other functionality, it is all a few clicks away. You don't even need to understand FTP anymore!
3. Its Open Source! There are literally thousands of computer programmers who work together and donate their time to make sure it not only is simple and it works, but that it keeps getting better over time.

This is spot-on!

Wordpress skills are not only valuable for your personal internet marketing sites, but it also makes setting up and selling basic sites (that business owners can update themselves) a cinch!!!

So much money to be made with Wordpresss + Creativity!

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Steve L

12 years ago

Originally Posted by vladdarius

Hey, guys, I am a big fan of wordpress and other blogging platforms but a couple of days ago a friend asked me, WHY WORDPRESS? And I tried to explain to him why wordpress now but then i started to think about it and realized that i had no idea how it all started and if a newbie would ask me i probably wouldn't know how to answer him either.

I would probably just tell him to DO IT and stop asking stupid questions lol

But really, how did people start preferring wordpress over all other sites?

Why is wordpress better or better yet why was wordpress better to begin with?

I would really appreciate your input on this

thanks in advance

Easy! Wordpress lets you focus more on publishing and marketing!

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brentb

12 years ago

THE ANSWER:

Requires 0 Knowledge of Code & Wordpress had good product positioning and branding. Tada... just light the rocket fuel!

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markwilson4074

12 years ago

- Its a HUGE time save to start your IM business.

-Requires virtually NO coding knowledge,

-Comes with a plethora of themes and plugins (did I forgot to mention these are mostly FREE)

and list goes on and on...

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betterwtveter 12 years ago

like what everyone says, it is due to how seo user friendly it is. I like how easy to navigate it is to get through the blog system.
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markstonepublishing 12 years ago

Pretty simply really - Wordpress is just a finely-tuned, well-oiled machine. Very user-friendly. SEO friendly. Google likes it. And literally Wordpress has plug-ins to achieve 99% of functions and features that a user might want. So that's pretty much that.

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tomtommarketing

12 years ago

I have always had great results ranking Wordpress blogs on Google, even after all the algorithm changes. Blogspot, not so much. I think people become familiar with a platform and don't bother learning another. In my opinion wordpress has become synonymous with blogging like Google has with Search engines.

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Kevin McNally

12 years ago

Wordpress became popular for a number of reasons but mainly it had an active community sharing themes, plugins and it was free of course. Basically anyone can build a website with wordpress and that's pretty cool.

As for the SEO benefits, that's another debate and you would need a proper case study to get reliable results but this isn't even 100% possible of course .

I don't think Alexa is that accurate in most cases but check out the top 100 traffic websites on Alexa, notice anything about them ?

Alexa Top 500 Global Sites

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Willing2Learn

12 years ago

I got into websites and internet marketing using another platform but once I got the knowledge under my belt I realize that wordpress is the best thing ever. I was actually afraid to use it for a long time because it looked too involved and hard but to be honest it's anything but. I enjoy it because of the flexibility and wide range of things you can do with it. Add the fact that the serps seem to love it it's really a no brainier IMO.

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Well, I started out hand-coding html sites and the time it took to get a full site up was weeks rather than hours, like it is with Wordpress (and that's including the design). Many people don't have those html skills and getting a site up with Wordpress is both cheap and easy.

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Mpresev

12 years ago

they always have new and very cool plug ins.. I think Wordpress rox.

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Black Hat Cat

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by vladdarius

But really, how did people start preferring wordpress over all other sites?

Because every internet marketing product released for the past 4-5 years insists that Wordpress is the only way to go.

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12 years ago

Easily customized
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Thousands of ready made layouts

Also much easier to turn over a WP site to a client that wants to update information on their own. It really has a great learning curve.

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sunray

12 years ago

Actually, there are much better CMS-s available. Like Drupal. It's a more professional tool, but since a lot more is possible with it, you also have to learn much more first. The out of the box version even does not have a HTML editor in place, so you have to know which one to choose, and how to install it (and, it's not as easy as choosing a plugin on WP). But then again, if you install your highly customizable CKEditor, the result cannot be compared with the WP standard editor, it's really MUCH better. The same applies to all functions.

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pyrosalad

12 years ago

I use it because of the countless number of free themes available, and the customization that it allows for. I am fairly decent at creating CSS style sheets, and being able to apply my themes seamlessly to pre-made Wordpress themes is easy and rewarding.

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savvy linguist

12 years ago

With Wordpress as well, I can just clone the site in just few clicks.

I can say Worpdress is amazing. It makes my life easier.

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jasonmorgan 12 years ago

What is this wordpress you speak of? Must investigate.
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jacktackett

12 years ago

While there are many reasons I feel this article highlights a few of them. Some have touched on the reason but this article goes into more detail. Basically being open source and easy to use primed the pump for Wordpress to take off despite other more robust CMS systems.

How did WordPress win?

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Steve50000

12 years ago

I really don't care that it is free. It saves me a lot of time, and it looks good. I have built sites with a text editor from scratch, and they looked like crap.

It's extremely fast to build a site. For the design-challenged, like me, it is hard to make it look bad.

It also looks good on any device. Many sites look terrible or don't function at all on my iPad or Android phone. Not wordpress sites. They still look good.

Having all the content in a MySQL Database is awesome. I can back it up, restore it in case of disaster, move it to a new host, move from a local dev copy running on WAMP or MAMP to prod, all easy-peasy.

Try sharing webmaster duties with someone on a static site, or one using PHP includes. Much more chance of it getting borked when you are not around. Having logins you can give to co-contributors, you greatly limit the chance of catastrophic damage by people who are not paying attention to what they are doing.

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brentb

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Steve50000

Try sharing webmaster duties with someone on a static site, or one using PHP includes. Much more chance of it getting borked when you are not around. Having logins you can give to co-contributors, you greatly limit the chance of catastrophic damage by people who are not paying attention to what they are doing.

If you have it built with php, you should build a back end and only allow non techies access to that, not to the actual files! Doh!

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12 years ago

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Harry Nguyen

12 years ago

It's really dope man, I just wish we could do the same with Tumblr. I like a lot of the themes in Tumblr, I see from people they could have the tumblr theme and still be on Wordpress but can't downgrade to Tumblr. It's two different platforms, I know. It's not ever possible to downgrade from anything...

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cjhj11

12 years ago

Out of curiousity, I set up 3 sites all in the same niche. One was with WordPress (using my own domain), one was with Weebly (using my own domain), and the other was with blogger. I applied the same SEO strategies (as much as I was able), and while they all got indexed very quickly, the Wordpress site was ranked the highest. The Weebly site came in second. I believe this is because Wordpress gives you the most control over SEO with the various plugins available. I'm sure there are other reasons as well, but the control over SEO seems to be the most likely reason the Wordpress site outranked the others.

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bassem

12 years ago

wordprees because it is the most simple platform online , because you can build any website throug it in matter of minutes, because it's seo friendly, because you can install unlimmited plugins to it, and because google loves wordpess and the list goes on and on ...

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Mark Singletary

12 years ago

1. Everything that people are claiming that WP excels at (plugins, themes, community, etc.) are available in many other systems in equal or more amounts.

2. You can't say that WP is THE best for anything if you haven't installed and used all or most of the competitors. Otherwise, you simply don't know but are passing your opinion based on your thoughts and your needs. You do NOT know if it's best for me and my needs nor do you know that you can build and run ANY site with WP unless you've tried running sites of various sizes and needs.

3. I think most important is to learn WHY they became the "household" name in just a few years. It's only been about 6-7 years or so ago when they didn't have any themes or plugins and was not well known. How can we apply their viral growth to our own businesses? What did they do on their end to market it and build the community? Why did they excel when B2Evolution (they are both break offs at the same time from another blogging script) did not really take off despite the same base code? Most things don't just happen for no reason.

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OldLodgeSkins 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Mark Singletary

2. You can't say that WP is THE best for anything if you haven't installed and used all or most of the competitors.

Spot on.
This is the reason why I'm always careful when saying I don't like WordPress (I really don't - but then, I have a really limited experience with it, I tried it, didn't like the way it's organized, so I moved on, this is hardly enough experience to talk about it).
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12 years ago

Wordpress > *

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SandraLarkin

Banned 12 years ago

Fast, easy, clean. Tons o plugins. Really, it's just the easiest possible way to build a site.

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Daniel Evans 12 years ago

I'm a designer and sometimes I like to start with a 100% blank canvas.

In which case a plain HTML page is sometimes more appropriate....
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  In which case a plain HTML page is sometimes more appropriate....
  
  Yes, me too. That's why I have a wordpress page template which is totally blank; no header, no menu, no nothing. If you get on that page, you'd never know it's WP unless you look at the source.
  
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12 years ago

SEO friendly, easy to install and customize

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12 years ago

I started off using it as it was easy to jump into and get started. Plus the amount of plugins you can use is great so you can customize your site a lot.

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reneesbertrand

12 years ago

Easy customization, Open-source, you can find lots of plugins for anything you can easily make a website in 2hours by just applying a theme, SEO friendly what more do you need?

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paul nicholls

12 years ago

Like many of the replies on here i will say the same

It is very easy to work with, customize and tweak

Google also likes wordpress too

When it comes to site building I do not want to sit there and mess around with code for hours on end

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12 years ago

Regarding these Wordpress SEO plugins that have been mentioned - exactly what do these plugins do that you can't do with a hand-coded site?

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Dor Gur

12 years ago

Originally Posted by vladdarius

Hey, guys, I am a big fan of wordpress and other blogging platforms but a couple of days ago a friend asked me, WHY WORDPRESS? And I tried to explain to him why wordpress now but then i started to think about it and realized that i had no idea how it all started and if a newbie would ask me i probably wouldn't know how to answer him either.

I would probably just tell him to DO IT and stop asking stupid questions lol

But really, how did people start preferring wordpress over all other sites?

Why is wordpress better or better yet why was wordpress better to begin with?

I would really appreciate your input on this

thanks in advance

Hi,
WP is the most advanced one. Google and SEO friendly.
You may spend a lot of time and efforts in other platforms compairing what you have there in auto-mode built in, just use the appropriate plug-in and you have what you need.

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Dor Gur 12 years ago

Hi,
WP is the most advanced one. Google and SEO friendly.
You may spend a lot of time and efforts in other platforms compairing what you have there in auto-mode built in, just use the appropriate plug-in and you have what you need.
I home it was helpful.
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nmohan1980

12 years ago

I really like to use wordpress because of the it great user friendly feature. I am zero on HTML, but i build all my websites easily using Wordpress.

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RobertLindsey

12 years ago

I've started to use CopyBar. copybar.io It enables true WYSIWYG content editing for any static website (including WordPress).... I use it with WordPress though because that's what I'm used to. And, of course, Wordpress pages aren't "static"... it's just that it's such a pain to go back and forth between all the different screens when I want to make changes.

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aizaku

12 years ago

its user friendly, plugins rock, twenty ten theme is the bomb, google loves it, matt cutts uses it, etc... etc... etc....

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champion510 12 years ago

Originally Posted by aizaku

its user friendly, plugins rock, twenty ten theme is the bomb, google loves it, matt cutts uses it, etc... etc... etc....

Oh Matt Cutts uses it? it must be good then..
I remember when he used to toot the Blogger horn! now he is on Wordpress!
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Benomar

12 years ago

- Easy to set up

- Seo friendly

- wysiwyg editor

- Lots of free tutorials are available online

- No coding knowledge is required ....

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TimothyTorrents

12 years ago

The Keyword Academy teaches people how to make money from Adsense using Wordpress websites, that may be one of the reasons why there are so many niche targeted Wordpress websites around. It's also just easier to use than other blogging platforms.

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champion510

12 years ago

Wordpress is easy to work with. takes less than 5 mins to install, configure a theme and get the site up and running which is why I use it.

my only beef with wordpress is the security. My site has been hacked 6 times in last year.. and there is not a single plugin that can help me..or atleast not that I know off..

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champion510

12 years ago

I wish developers would invest more into making it more secure!
I have not created site on any other platform other than wordpress in over 2 years now!
I love it that much.

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tjm2788

12 years ago

I personally use them because I'm lazy. You can skin them up with gorgeous themes, they have seo friendly url structures and you can install them with a few clicks.

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Ewan Lumsden

Banned 12 years ago

You can make almost any type of site with wordpress with no knowledge of coding other anything, that's one of the many reasons that others have said.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Call me a skepchick, but it's turned into yet another of those conversations where members list "advantages" of Wordpress that also apply to plenty of other content management systems. People read those posts and believe them. They often don't notice the comments from the people whose sites "have been hacked 6 times this year"!

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K Mec

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Call me a skepchick, but it's turned into yet another of those conversations where members list "advantages" of Wordpress that also apply to plenty of other content management systems. People read those posts and believe them. They often don't notice the comments from the people whose sites "have been hacked 6 times this year"!

Any good thing attracts both God and Evils. Evils tries to break it, God tries to Make it. Just like microsoft and Mac. As microsoft is more popular in the world, hackers tries more to hack microsoft systems because they wants more.

So nothing to worry so much. There are lots of ways to secure wordpress blog.

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champion510 12 years ago

K Mec
I think her point is valid as people are often quick to jump on band wagon after reading few positive reviews...
What they don't notice is that system is more vulnerable.. and there needs to be a good working security plugin that can help fight back.
I've tried bulletproof security plugin and several others and none that work as effectively..
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OldLodgeSkins

12 years ago

I agree with you Alexa.
Go figure, I get hacking and spamming attempts every day on my own websites, so far none has gone through... In about a year and a half for my oldest one.
But... Of course, I've gone a little further than "just" installing a CMS (Joomla in my case). Among other things, one of my first actions when building a new website, is to password-protect the admin area with a .htaccess, which as far a s I know, can't be done with WordPress as if I'm not mistaken the user panel's files are stored in the same folder as the admin area (but I'm no WP specialist so I could be wrong). That's too bad, because IMHO, this is something you just can't ignore...

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IMSince2003

12 years ago

One of my wp sales sites keeps getting attacked by my competitors. Every so often, I have to do a full restore from backup. I would love to know how they keep doing it.

To answer the OP's question, it's super easy to setup and since so many people have written useful plugins to do everything I need done, and most for free to boot, it's a no-brainer.

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12 years ago

Free, easy to use, good SEO pluggin, 0 coding required.

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by vladdarius

Hey, guys, I am a big fan of wordpress and other blogging platforms but a couple of days ago a friend asked me, WHY WORDPRESS? And I tried to explain to him why wordpress now but then i started to think about it and realized that i had no idea how it all started and if a newbie would ask me i probably wouldn't know how to answer him either.

I would probably just tell him to DO IT and stop asking stupid questions lol

But really, how did people start preferring wordpress over all other sites?

Why is wordpress better or better yet why was wordpress better to begin with?

I would really appreciate your input on this

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I chose WordPress because it was easy, fast to learn and full of options.../shrug

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mikeink

12 years ago

I love to play with numbers.

Hmm is this is true then 198% of the internet is all made up.

Now take 50% of your 99% that mean that only approx. 49.5% use wordpress, approx 30% use joomla, and the balance of 20.5% may use the other ones.

I am working on building 6 sites with 2 on WP, 2 on joomla and 2 on drupal.
To see which one that I would like to use. Before I make a descision. So far
they are about equal. Then I am in no rush at this time.

So far I find Joomla about 50% for ease of use
WordPress 35%
Drupal 15%

We all have our preference as to our needs, as want we like to use.

Security is how a person uses it, anywhere from none up to fort knox. You need to keep your security up dated. It does not as to the flavour of your ice cream to the hacker. as long as he/she is able to hack you.

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vladdarius

11 years ago

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11 years ago

Originally Posted by peter0berts

It is a well known fact that google like wordpress and it is a good SEO-friendly platform.

I'm so sick of hearing this. Wordpress aren't much more "SEO friendly" than a regular HTML site. It's the content and the relevance that the big G (and the other major search engines) rank and not the platform that the site runs on.

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robestrong

11 years ago

It's easy and there are a ton of plugins and themes for it. Simple as that.

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Magnet4Marketing

11 years ago

I think it's because WordPress gives you so much creative freedom, whilst being immensely popular and easy to use. If you want to make your WordPress site perform a particular way or you want to add a new feature, all you have to do is find a plugin to do the job, coding isn't needed however a little does help. Using WordPress with a decent SEO plugin also makes the work of Google bots a pleasurable one, I once heard Matt Cutts mention in a video.

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sethriley

11 years ago

My good friend turned me onto Wordpress 3 years ago. Not having any technical knowledge of building websites I quickly learned the basic functions of Wordpress and became addicted to building sales funnels and blogs.

The things I feel that sets Wordpress apart from the other platforms is the ability to build a site over night. Not only that but you can google just about any plugin you are in need of and find it for free over the web.

It has also become a gold mind for Internet Marketers and Developers for product creation because you can simply take a plugin, learn the pros and cons about it and develop a better version and sell it for profit or give it away to your subscribers as a gift.

Not to mention it is a perfect platform for a Web Design company starting out that want to develop a quality site in a short period of time.

Wordpress is not just a platform, it is also a great marketing tool in every aspect...

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Ben Gordon

11 years ago

The main reason people like to use Wordpress is because of the simplicity. Lot's of people don't want to learn HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, and other tough programming languages it would take to build a great site. Wordpress is the solution. It's super flexible, free, open source and constantly updated (which most free software don't do). Therefore many people make plugins and themes around it to make it easy for you to implement software. Things like optimizepress and wishlist member. Wordpress makes it really easy to make a pretty site and implement everything without paying a programmer a nice chunk of cash to install the site you want.

I personally prefer wordpress for simple content sites, membership sites, and such. However, I prefer classic HTML & CSS sites for squeeze pages and sales pages. A few reasons? HTML and CSS (with a hint of PHP) by itself is way more customizable (in fact, completely customizable for that matter) than wordpress. Therefore I can optimize my conversions and make the most out of my leads and prospects. Also, wordpress takes up a lot of space and bandwidth compared to simple HTML sites due to all the unnecessary features there are -- and by unnecessary I don't mean completely unnecessary, but rather unnecessary for the particular page (e.g. having scripts that you don't need load up on a simple squeeze page). All in all, I am personally a big fan of HTML and CSS -- this might be because I started a long time ago when wordpress wasn't big -- because of the customization options; plus it's super easy to implement once you learn the language. However wordpress has really caught my attention the past few years because of how easy and fast it is to create pages that would've taken hours, if not days, with plain HTML and CSS.

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dukegman

11 years ago

There are many reasons why WordPress is used by 99% of the marketers. But a few them would be:

1). WordPress is the most popular platform out there so whenever someone searchs about setting up a blog or site, they are introduced to WordPress naturally due to its popularity.

2). Not only is WordPress 100% free, but it is also an Open Source platform.

3). WordPress is the most flexible platform out there. You can pretty much make anything out of it.

4). Due to it's popularity and flexibility, it has the most amount of themes and other goodies.

5). And the last thing, WORDPRESS IS THE BEST!!

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