I made a decision to create all my affiliate websites using Wordpress. Create your websites using Wordpress?? Isn’t Wordpress just used for blog sites??

Well, Yes and No.

Yes, Wordpress is a great platform for blogging, no doubt. I like it for 3 reasons over the other platforms. Thanks to Sherman Hu’s excellent video for helping with the summary

1. Cost
2. Easy to Use and Productivity
3. Ownership

Cost:Wordpress is free. Well, so is Blogger and MSN Spaces. But I’ll explain why I don’t like those platforms below. The other main platforms, Typepad and Moveable Type have costs associated with them.

Easy to Use and Productivity: I find Wordpress very easy to intall and set up - lot’s of hosting companies such as Host Gator Shared Web Hosting have install programs such as Fantisco to make it a very easy process. Wordpress is very easy to configure and there are many developers that are writing new themes or designs as well as plugins or little mini add on programs to help make your site unique.

Blogger is much less flexible and I find it’s slow to even get a post online. Typepad and Moveable Type are much more complex to use

Ownership: Wordpress’s biggest advantage is that it’s free to download and install on your own web server. I don’t know if any of you have had a Blogger account disabled for any reason? Well, that’s not something I want to experience, especially after I put my heart on soul into a new blog.

Again, the other platforms are hosted on their servers.

So to summarize, you can see that I’m really liking Wordpress as a platform.

But you ask, “That’s great but you still didn’t explain why you want to build your affiliate websites with Wordpress”

Ok, OK, let me explain a bit more. Remember, I mentioned about themes and plugins?

That’s what makes Wordpress unique and flexible. There are themes out there that modify the look and feel of your Wordpress blog site so that they look just like a normal website.

The plugins help you manage your site and add search engine optimization features so that your site can be more search engine friendly to Google and the other SE’s.

I will be using a theme from one of my online memberships that make put up niche affiliate sites a breeze. Then you can use all the great content management features of Wordpress to add new content to the site as time goes on.

I think this will be a killer combination. I’ll discuss some of these tools and memberships in my upcoming articles and posts. Chau for now…

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