Why You Need to Use a Blogging Platform for Building Websites
You simply need to use blogging software for all your website projects, and more specifically I recommend that you learn how to use WordPress.
First, let's discuss a blog format versus a static html website.
Unless you are crazy about learning how to write code, and then having to deal with switching back and forth between a template view and an html editor, there really is no reason any longer to do it like a dinosaur.
Even if you learned it "old school", this is a bit like being attached to DOS programs and floppy discs, because that is how you learned to use a computer before Windows came along.
I could go on and rant about other aspects of designing websites the old-fashioned way, and we will just mention that this includes things like editing fonts, tags, and templates.
Enough said.
The main thing is that you no longer have to toil away at the technical aspects of putting up websites.
Let the new tools do the work for you.
So we come to the fact that websites and blogs are now pretty much the same thing where search engines are concerned.
That is to say that search engines do not categorically make a distinction between the two, excepting the way a website versus a blog might be constructed.
Search engine are more interested in how a site functions, and how often a site is updated with new content.
This is because their job is to index information.
Now we move on to the practical matter of your sites being "search engine friendly".
Chances are you are an average person that just wants to make some cash online, and you don't own or control a well-known brand-name.
Needless to say, if you are not a Fortune 500 Company, you will have a bit of a problem getting noticed online.
Years ago, large corporations could get away with using static websites, or going to the other extreme with Flash-based graphics and other fancy tricks that search engines don't try to read or index.
This no longer is an optimal way to approach SEO.
Now we begin to understand some of the biggest reasons for learning how to use a blogging platform as the basis for any sort of website.
First off, you want to build websites quickly, and next you want to build websites that will be visited regularly by search engine spiders and indexed in the SERPs.
This means that your logical choice is to build with a blog platform.
Blogs get the respect of search engines because they are updated often with new content and get lots of traffic for the same reason.
My last thoughts on this are that the only thing you should consider when you are ready to dive in, is to use WordPress.
I am talking about self-hosted WordPress sites (WordPress.
org tools for publishing) and not the free WordPress.
com blog site.
Make sure you understand the difference, as it can be confusing for beginners.
WordPress is absolutely head and shoulders above every other blogging platform.
Last time I checked there were close to 13,000 available plugins for WordPress.
If you don't already know what plugins are, you can read up on that once you get started with building websites using WordPress.
Just know that plugins will add functionality to your sites and run many processes in the background and in an automated fashion.
This will free you up to blue-sky new ideas and build more websites.
You also will have some new and useful blogging skills to build upon.
First, let's discuss a blog format versus a static html website.
Unless you are crazy about learning how to write code, and then having to deal with switching back and forth between a template view and an html editor, there really is no reason any longer to do it like a dinosaur.
Even if you learned it "old school", this is a bit like being attached to DOS programs and floppy discs, because that is how you learned to use a computer before Windows came along.
I could go on and rant about other aspects of designing websites the old-fashioned way, and we will just mention that this includes things like editing fonts, tags, and templates.
Enough said.
The main thing is that you no longer have to toil away at the technical aspects of putting up websites.
Let the new tools do the work for you.
So we come to the fact that websites and blogs are now pretty much the same thing where search engines are concerned.
That is to say that search engines do not categorically make a distinction between the two, excepting the way a website versus a blog might be constructed.
Search engine are more interested in how a site functions, and how often a site is updated with new content.
This is because their job is to index information.
Now we move on to the practical matter of your sites being "search engine friendly".
Chances are you are an average person that just wants to make some cash online, and you don't own or control a well-known brand-name.
Needless to say, if you are not a Fortune 500 Company, you will have a bit of a problem getting noticed online.
Years ago, large corporations could get away with using static websites, or going to the other extreme with Flash-based graphics and other fancy tricks that search engines don't try to read or index.
This no longer is an optimal way to approach SEO.
Now we begin to understand some of the biggest reasons for learning how to use a blogging platform as the basis for any sort of website.
First off, you want to build websites quickly, and next you want to build websites that will be visited regularly by search engine spiders and indexed in the SERPs.
This means that your logical choice is to build with a blog platform.
Blogs get the respect of search engines because they are updated often with new content and get lots of traffic for the same reason.
My last thoughts on this are that the only thing you should consider when you are ready to dive in, is to use WordPress.
I am talking about self-hosted WordPress sites (WordPress.
org tools for publishing) and not the free WordPress.
com blog site.
Make sure you understand the difference, as it can be confusing for beginners.
WordPress is absolutely head and shoulders above every other blogging platform.
Last time I checked there were close to 13,000 available plugins for WordPress.
If you don't already know what plugins are, you can read up on that once you get started with building websites using WordPress.
Just know that plugins will add functionality to your sites and run many processes in the background and in an automated fashion.
This will free you up to blue-sky new ideas and build more websites.
You also will have some new and useful blogging skills to build upon.
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