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In this article I am going to talk a little about the WordPress Blog Platform, its main features, advantages and benefits. WordPress has proven to be one blog platform that came to stay and compete with big blog services like Blogger from Google. Unlike most blog services provided by big online blog providers, WordPress is open source and offers flexibility, personalization and security since it can be hosted on your own web host and you don’t have to worry about waking up the morning logon your blog and see some message like “Your Account Has Been Suspended / Deleted” without any notice and all the content gone, certainly one of the worst things that could happen to an internet marketer. WordPress allows you to customize your blog according to your niche, product or service, using tens of applications, themes and plug-ins available with what you can create whatever you imagine.

When choosing a WordPress theme there is one very important issue to be considered, if you are going to use a free or a premium one. It’s quite easy to find a lot of free themes by simply Googling “free WordPress themes” and adding some more keywords according to what you’d like to find. Free themes can be good but sometimes you have to be cautious about hidden traps; the problem with free themes is that many times they do not offer a good quality of coding, several built-in advertising, lack of support and it is not unique, you can usually check how many times a theme has been downloaded beside the download button.

Otherwise, Premium themes can be excellent and definitely worth the money when you can rely on a technical support and have a layout designed specially for you and suitable to your purpose. After choosing and implementing your theme, the next step is to add some plug-ins that will be useful for you depending on what you intend to post on your blog, this is totally customizable and you can check and download some indispensable plug-ins at the WordPress web site.

That said, if you are serious about your blogging you should consider using WordPress along with a premium theme, you will have better support, customization, uniqueness and no ads. WordPress functionalities can be easily customized using plug-ins that allows you to add extra services and to interact with your visitors; they will eventually help you to manage your blog better.

Do you think that your WordPress blog is not faring well on the World Wide Web? There could be many probable reasons for it; the primary one being that your WordPress blog is not properly optimized for search engines.

Today, thousands of new blogs get posted on the Internet every day. However, only some of them become successful and drive heavy web traffic. Here are some SEO tips using which you can you can optimize your WordPress blog and make it more search engine friendly.

1) Alter the Permalink Structure: Set your permalinks optimally for SEO. The permalink of your WordPress blog, by default, is clumsy and not optimal, and usually the URL reflects p67 etc. However, it can be easily edited by clicking on the ‘Settings’ tab and then ‘Permalinks’ menu on the dashboard of WordPress. You can then customize it as abc.com/category/postname. Now, your blog post category and title would be visible in the URL rather than a long numeral series.

2) Optimize your blog for keyword phrase: Before you post a blog, you must do some extensive keyword research with the help of Google AdWords Keyword tool and find a low competition keyword phrase with a long tail. Focus aptly on the keyword density and remember to use it in the title keeping a density of 3-4% through the blog content.

3) Add a Comprehensive SEO Pack: Install this All in One SEO pack that enables you to optimize meta tags & keyword tags along with their description, add a custom title for your blog site.

4) Bookmark each blog post: Take the help of social bookmarking websites such as Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon etc. as this would enable you to promote your blog effectively and bring in heavy web traffic through lots of back linking. You can also OnlyWire and submit your blog posts to multiple bookmarking sites simultaneously.

5) Apply Google XML Sitemap plugins: Install XML plugins so that all your blog posts and web pages are indexed easily by search engines. You can also use these plugins for generating a sitemap for you blog site.

6) Optimize the home page of your blog site: Use a keyword research tool and figure out good keyword phrases for your home page and remember to include the keyword phrases in the meta description, Title tags and the running content of your home page. These relevant keyword phrases can fetch you hundreds of searches per day.

7) Practice link building: You can easily give a remarkable boost to the search engine rankings of your website with link building thereby driving in considerable web traffic to your website. Use article submission to multiple directory submissions, article marketing, forum postings, blog comments, media coverage, press releases, emails, newsletters, social bookmarking etc. for link building.
Optimize your Blog gifs/Images: You can optimize your images by using keywords in the ‘Alt’ attribute and ad keywords in the names of the images. Also, input the image description in the image title tag.

Now that you know the basic SEO tips to optimize your WordPress blog, you must optimize the same at the earliest for instant web results on major search engines. Besides these SEO tips, your WordPress blog must be hosted on a secure server that has a decent uptime and offers you 24 × 7 technical and customer support service so that your WordPress blog is accessible to the visitors all the time and your SEO efforts can fetch excellent results. Currently, there are many good web hosts performing well in Web Hosting business such as LimeDomains, HostGator, Network Solutions etc.

sjbraden asked:


I am new to Wordpress and need to add a powerpoint presentation to the blog. I have no clue how to do this. Is there anyone who can explain it to me? In fact, I know very little at all about Wordpress. So I would be thankful for precise and succinct instructions. Thank you very much

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Giorgio asked:


I am trying to make all the comments on my wordpress blog to be always visible. How can I do that? I dont want the comments just be buried behind a ‘comments’ link. Please help!!!!
Thanks dhvrm but how can I do that? Im not a php literate. I only know html/css. Any ideas?

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Mark T asked:


Ive been trying for months to get my wordpress blog working properly hosted at one.com. Everything works except uploading the images. Ive tried everything i can think of and found on forums.

Does anyone have a wordpress blog hosted by one.com that works perfectly. If you did was there anything you did differently to the wordpress 5minute installation guide. Thanks.

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JoleneSugarbaker asked:


I have not touched my wordpress blog in 5 months.
Now that I’m back trying to post in it, it doesn’t work anymore.
I can log into the blog, make a post, edit a post, appear to delete a post, BUT it doesn’t show on the “Public” template side. It DOES however show on the standard Wordpress calendar/archive and history version, just not on my public published blog. I have not changed any coding or added any widgets. Could it be that my server changed authorizations for postings? Or Ports? Or? I definitely have clicked published, and did things regularly… my server is famous for blocking ports spammers use… had to change a file name to something different just to get the Camera Phone posting ability to work in the past… Anyone?
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Nick is awesome asked:


i dont get the whole wordpress blog thing. like, i know the web-based stuff, but like i dont get how you can download it…what does that do? i thought it was only web based! and you can download plugins, but how do you add them to your blog? do you have to pay for using the downloaded version

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sloth asked:


I found a cool free wordpress blog them. I wish I know how to make my own but I don’t so I want to use one from topwpthemes.com but I cant figure out how to upload it to my blog I am building on word press. Can you help me?

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