WordPress Is No Longer Just For Blogging
WordPress Is No Longer Just For Blogging
by Mike Paetzold – Copyright 2009 – All rights reserved
Seems like a rash statement I know. But by the time you finish this article you will know six ways to use Wordpress besides as a blog. Exactly why WordPress is more powerful than the majority of static websites. And why you should be using it too.
WordPress is well known as one of the best, if not the best, blog platforms around. What you may not know is that with minimal effort WordPress can be used in not just one or two other types of sites but at least six and probably ways besides Being used as a blogging platform. Don’t believe me here are six different ways you can use WordPress.
1. As a squeeze page to collect leads for your email list
2. As a review site allowing you to make affiliate sales
3. As a sales letter for your product that is search engine friendly
4. As a static looking site for any regular content site
5. As a membership site to help you generate residual income
6. As an affiliate site to promote your favorite affiliate programs
Those are the ways that you can use WordPress That brings up the question as to why you would want to use it for any of those things. There are 3 primary reasons.
1. The structure of a WordPress blog with just a couple of plugins is very appealing to the search engines.
2. Search engines tend to spider them faster because of the structure that is inherent in the software.
3. Add in the automated RSS feed and you have a perfectly set up spider friendly site quickly and easily.
Think how many more visitors you can get by having the search engines liking your site structure. Think your page just may rank a bit higher in Google, Yahoo and Bing? Will that generate more visitors to your site for whatever purpose you are using it? I sure think so what about you?
The other great thing about WordPress is the ease of installation and the vast number of plugins. You can add lots of functionality quickly and easily. There are literally thousands of plugins available to you.. The really nice part is most of them are free.
There are also a huge number of themes available to customize your blog to get the look you want to achieve. All of these things together mean that once you get comfortable with WordPress you just may put your webmaster out of a job. It is easy when you know how.
To discover exactly how to bend WordPress to your will spy on this programming nerd and watch exactly how he does it at Nerd Blogger.
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9 comments
Sheila Atwood on June 30, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Way cool! I have been wanting to put my sales pages on my blogs for SEO reasons. And to be able to use any theme is a real bonus. Nice product.
Sheila
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Lonnie Minton on June 30, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Mike, 6 great ways to use WordPress. I am particularly interested in #4. “As a static looking site for any regular content site.” I will have to look in to how to do that. I have an application for that now. Thanks.
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Earl Netwal on June 30, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Great video Mike. Covered a lot of material in under 3 minutes. More fun to watch than to read for many or us TV generation types and that’s a lot of folk.
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Andre Arnett on June 30, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Wow, these are some rally good ideas for using Wordpress. I especially like #5 myself. Would like to hear how it could be used as a membership site. Thanks.
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Doug Champigny on June 30, 2009 at 5:58 pm
As always, Mike, you remain one of the best sources of information for blogging online, and for WordPress in particular. Showing the various other uses to WP is valuable information – thanks for sharing it here!
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Michael on June 30, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Hi Mike,
thanks for sharing this. I’m sure it’ll inspire some more creative uses of wordpress.
It’ll be interesting to see what other ideas you and your readers can come up with.
Cheers,
Michael
Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach on July 1, 2009 at 5:28 am
It’s the SEO benefits that makes me happy – I can use my local wordpress blog to rank in the top 10 for local keywords for clients/friends any time I want.
.-= Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach´s last blog ..Internet Marketing Agency Terralever Adds Chief Operations Officer, Chief Financial O =-.
Luca on July 1, 2009 at 9:59 am
Great video. Wordpress is really the only way to go for me. Especially now that you can utilize it for so many different types os sites.
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Chadnan on July 3, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Agree!! Wordpress is really very powerful. Before started my blog I never thought it would be so easy. I liked most because of so many plugin and it is free.
Enjoyed the video. Thanks..
.-= Chadnan´s last blog ..7 Proven Ways To Make Money Blogging =-.