Why WordPress?

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Hello Warriors

I've been designing my sites in dreamweaver ever since I started with IM... I didn't hear about WordPress until I joined this forum.

Now my question, why use WordPress? I know if you want a blog then maybe you don't have a choice but I've seen wordpress sites only with static pages. In my opinion it's difficult to do SEO perfect using wordpress, and I don't really see what those SEO plugins really do to help the whole situation of database driven pages.

Can somebody please explain to me what I'm seeing or doing wrong and if there's more to wordpress than I know?

Thanks!
#search engine optimization #wordpress
  • I agree.wordpress has all the plugins you need to optimize your blog.
    The "All in one SEO" plugin is the best plugin ever!!
    No need to worry about doing metatags and stuff.They do it for you automatically.
  • @Saidar - Nothing wrong with Dreamweaver. If you are getting good results with that and have no compelling reason to use Wordpress then I would not worry about what you are missing out on particularly if you are cranking out static sites that serve their purpose and perform. It all comes back to the K.I.S.S. principle. Now if you have a good reason to use Wordpress over Dreamweaver for a site then you're talking

    Dean
  • Dreamweaver is a great program to build sites. You can make navigation menu, add AJAX, javascript code, etc.

    Wordpress is great for starting and maintaining blogs in under 5 minutes. There are lots of benefits in using Wordpress. There are tons of themes and plugins, extensive help. Plus, Wordpress is very secure.
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    • I would argue that static sites are much more secure than Wordpress, particularly if standard Wordpress installations are used. Agree that Wordpress great for creating quick blogs it's an awesome social platform.

      Dean
  • I use WordPress for blogs (its original intention) but many also use it to create static sites with an integrated blog.

    You can do that by simply selecting options in the Settings screens.

    However, using WordPress as a static site has some limitations, particularly with on-page styling, because it reserves H1 and H2 for blog and page titles.

    Also, using the HTML view for writing posts and pages is pretty frustrating because WP frequently ignores or over-rides the code you put in.

    For blogs, though, it's truly excellent.

    As others have said, there are all sorts of SEO related plugins that are extremely effective, but one of the reasons the platform itself is naturally well optimised is its structure of Categories and Tags.

    As long as these are correctly used to group and link articles on a similar subject together, they give both readers and the search engines an extremely easy way of finding their way around the site to content relevant to their interest.

    Cheers,

    Martin.
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    • These aren't reserved by WordPress. This is theme based. Change your theme, change the behavior.

      You can enter posts in HTML mode and avoid the 'help' if you want. There are plugins available that further enhance your ability in this area.
  • Hi Saidar

    I wrote a nice little segment about wordpress at my blog Advantages of Using WordPress to Build Your Website | Massive Marketers It may not be what you are looking for how ever the article is jampacked with info all about wp
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    • Now that I see what you have done with your site I'm starting to like wordpress. What are the plugins that you use? How did you change the categories to a horizontal menu without changing the internal code yourself? How did you get those nice vertical menus? A theme?
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    • Now that I see what you have done with your site I'm starting to like wordpress. What are the plugins that you use? How did you change the categories to a horizontal menu without changing the internal code yourself? How did you get those nice vertical menus? A theme?
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  • I was going to ask a similar question:
    If one were to do one or the other, which would you do,
    a niche site or a blog?

    I opted for the blog, as I learned how wordpress had
    taken the blog community by storm. Along with a quick way
    of doing, in effect, a niche site. I already had the domains
    and hosting, so used cpanel to install wordpress and man
    has it been great. You can add subpages, html, etc. to
    almost any theme. And the free themes give an almost
    endless list of possibilities. The SEO has proved to be almost
    built-in. That's my support of wordpress.

    Paul
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    • So far I have only heard complements to wordpress... Maybe it's time for me to try it out for a new site of mine... I was just a little worried about SEO but it sounds like wordpress is better for SEO than a normal static website?

      The template I've tried puts the same H1 and H2 tag on every page, does those SEO plugins change that? Changing it myself is rather difficult because I've notcied that WP use one template for the header etc etc, so changing the template changes the entire website.

      What is the best SEO plugin? All in one SEO or platinum SEO?
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  • I use wordpress for all my sites/ I mean which other platform gives you the flexibility of CMS and a blogging platform.
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    Contrary to what you believe, wordpress is the easiest thing to SEO.. Especially if you are adding content daily, wordpress is a real deal..
  • How exactly to I configure wordpress to ping to all the search engines? is it automated or do I have to add code somewhere?
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    • The pinging system is automated all you have to do is add in your ping site addresses and then make a post. This is how I was able to recover most of my post on google so fast after permalinks change. I went through and re edited the key words for about 20 post and with in an hour I was racing up the google search again for my post.
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  • I used to use Dreamweaver and Frontpage to create all my websites. When I initially started hearing about WordPress I was skeptical. I now use WP for all my sites because of the simplicity of:

    1. Easily doing on-page SEO stuff (as discussed in other posts)
    2. Easily being able to change the entire site's look and feel without updating code.
    3. Easily integrating contact forms into my site using various plugins
    4. Easily adding commenting features into my sites to add user generated content

    These are just a few of the reasons. I still occasionally fire up Dreamweaver or Frontpage to work up some HTML, but that's about the extent of it.
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    • I use WordPress for all my sites now.

      The first advantage is that it is so quick and easy to get a new site up and running. I don't stress too much about whether the theme uses H1 or H2 or whatever. My recent experience is that Google doesn't care about the tags - what matters is that you use keywords in titles, tags and categories and that you get your permalinks configured.

      I have found that WordPress is actually better for SEO. I use 'All In One SEO' and 'Google Sitemaps' plugins and they work like a dream. It's quite common for my WP sites to be indexed within 24 hours and I spend the time I would have spent fiddling about with coding on link building and adding more content.

      And WordPress blogs don't have to look like a blog. I have designed several WP sites where I just use static pages, with child and parent pages and a horizontal menu. They look and feel like regular websites, except they're much easier to maintain.

      WordPress any time!

      Sarah
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  • I use word press for his simplicity and his plugins are very good too .
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  • a ++ for seo in google :->
  • if you're doing 1 page landing pages or CPA offers then you don't need wordpress. But if you plan to create an interactive site very quickly and thinking long term then a wordpress site makes sense. With wordpress you get a ton of plugins that do SEO, sitemap, Adsense, etc etc. if You can name it - there's probably a plugin for it!
  • I'm just starting to lean all this, so thanks for all the info here.
  • For a non-technical online entrepreneur with a lean pocket for website design, WordPress is the sure bet.

    It is professional, it is simple to implement and there are tons of resources to get even a dumb person going.

    I'll say Dreamweaver is for the senior website designers who wants to control all the bolts and nuts. Of course some professional website designers still use Wordpress as the framework for their work and then build on it.
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    • Very useful information here, thanks.

      What is Wordpress like for creating a really simple landing page, the long-form letter kind with no distracting side bars or menus?

      Any advice on how to do this much appreciated.

      thanks

      Andy
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  • 1. Ease
    2. Plugins
    3. 'Hide in the crowd' 9depending what you're up to of course)
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    • I am using Wordpress to view and post my blogs it is very nice to use,but i want to know about advancement of the WordPress
  • Wordpress is everything according to me...
    there is nothing better than that... its userfriendly
    it has all the plugins that help you do anything and everything
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    • I love wordpress its so easy to use and set up for everything. The one thing I am going to try to do with my next wordpress is set up a forum for one of my programs not entirely sure if it is possible to do yet but I will find out soon enough.
  • I love wordpress even though it takes a few minutes to setup the database, etc. (I do it manually) and slap up a premium theme from Woothemes or similar and you're golden.

    petevamp - have you tried the Simple Press plugin? http: //simplepressforum.com/

    I hear that's pretty good. been meaning to try it
  • Easy to use ... easy to control .... good for seo purpose and huge plug ins for everything ...

    What else you want ?
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    • The best reason is that it's open source with a community of developers behind the code.
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