Former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli is generally given credit for saying “There are three kinds of lies; lies, damned lies, and statistics” and then there is this Lifehacker poll- which doesn’t show the results- but says most of the geeks reading the popular blog think WordPress rocks.
They mixed 2 ides in this post- one on the best blog backend- and one on plug-ins- but we’ll forgive them (we just didn’t make the same mistake).
Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide
In our recent web publishing poll, the overwhelming majority of Lifehacker’s blogger readers said that WordPress was the only way to get their words out to the world (so much so that the poll actually seems to have broken).
If you jump to the poll- the comments are helpful for learning too-
but, it’s our experience right now- that WordPress is the best for getting you to the top of Google- and that makes all the difference right now. If you are interested in having us come give a seminar to your group or organization- please feel free to contact us.
Found this article on 8 plug-ins for WordPress that can help you extend the functionality of your site.
One of the hardest things for us to keep up on is plug-ins, and how to separate the wheat from the chaff- some plug-ins can cause more problems than they solve (we found adhesive broke a google map plug-in for instance) and how some don’t work with certain themes (K2 doesn’t work with the google mapping plug-in either).
Another area where there seems to be a ton of options is Stats packages- right now we’re trying 3 different ones out.
So- here is a link to 8 invaluable WordPress plugins- and a brief quote-
WordPress in its default, out-of-the-box form can provide a good platform for your website, with a little tinkering you can increase the functionality of your site massively. And what’s the easiest way of tinkering? Plugins! Special files that you simply slot-in to your WordPress installation to get new features. Here are 8 plugins that I consider absolutely invaluable…
We’d love to hear what your favorite plugins are- so feel free to comment- we’ve got ours listed on our tools page.
Until you start getting a lot of traffic- you won’t be ready to sell ads on your site, but- maybe you might consider placing some ads to bring that traffic. However, if you are “the expert” on any one thing- you may just have the “Right” readers that someone wants to reach. Selling ads, not just Google Ad Sense placements, can be profitable- if you have an audience someone really wants to reach.
Consider this:
If you think blogs are not a viable ad medium, consider this: Many blogs are achieving “big media” reach. The celebrity gossip blog Perez Hilton, for example, or DailyKos have 500,000 readers a day, which is a quite a “big media” reach.
Read the full article The Value of Blog Advertising | MarketingProfs.com for more information. It also has tips on what to put in your blogad.
We’ll look more into advertising on blogs in the near future here- if you have questions about how to do this and can’t wait, give us a call.