Among other blogging content management system (cms), wordpress is my favor – it is a blogging platform that can easily run an ordinary website and media-rich sites such as podcasts. I love it because there’s no simpler, cheaper (it’s free), or more powerful way to build and manage a web site than using wordpress.
To the extent that a content management system can, wordpress thinks like a writer. You can set up wordpress to automatically ping all the RSS and blog feed directories every time you make a post. This is a very powerful feature if you want your blog to get a lot of traffic right away. On top of that, you’ll be quickly developing backlinks to your blog almost automatically.
Just think about how long will it take you to build a regular site, get the search engines to index it, get backlinks to improve your listings, and then start getting traffic? It will take long time. But with a blog by using wordpress – it can do all that “grunge” work for you automatically.
Although WordPress is free, its development is overseen by a commercial company, Automattic, and they bring commercial savvy, financial resources, and slickness to the project. It has a huge community of developers and enthusiasts behind, which means that there is a mass of online documentation and any number of plugins and themes for you to use.
WordPress has a very rapid development cycle, which keeps it at the cutting edge as far as features are concerned, and any bugs or security holes are rapidly squashed. Plus it has a focus on usability and user-testing which many open source projects lack.
More than that, wordpress also allows the use of Categories. Categories are a very powerful way to improve the structure of your site both for human visitors and for the search engines.
Below this step-by-step video guide will teach you how to set up your own wordpress blog on your server. Part 2 and Part 3 will coming soon.
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