“WordPress Takes Care of 80-90% of SEO” – Google’s Matt Cutts

In case you are debating whether or not to use WordPress for blogging or even a complete web design solution just take a look at what Google’s Matt Cutts had to say at WordCamp on May 30th.

In his presentation he shows you exactly what Google is looking for when ranking web sites and why WordPress is one of the best Search Engine Optimization (SEO) web development tools.

You can view his presentation slide show on his blog – View Presentation

For those of you who are wondering who is Matt Cutts, what is WordCamp and why should I care, here’s a little background …

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WordPress Themes: Selecting an Effective Theme

by: Gobala Krishnan

If you’re blogging on the WordPress platform, I’ll bet my entire life savings that the first thing you ever did was try to install a new WordPress theme. I’ll bet my future earnings that even today you’re still occasionally changing themes and wasting a lot of time doing minor modifications that when summed up merely distracts you from blogging itself.

It’s actually easy to see why this single aspect of running a blog demands so much attention. With the correct theme, you can accommodate all the nifty little widgets and codes, and may also mean better search engine rankings and tons of fresh traffic every day.

So what are the factors you need to consider to make theme-hunting easier?

Here are five important ingredients:

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I want to blog, where do I start and why should I use WordPress?

by: James DuPont

Okay, so you want to start your own blog. So where exactly do you start? Basically there are two options open to you:

1. You sign up with a free blogging service like WordPress.com.It’s free and it only takes a few minutes to sign up. Once that’s done you can blog away. The only problem with this is that you can’t have your own domain name – you can but it will cost you $15 a year – so your domain name will look something like this: http://mygreatsite.WordPress.com (unless you pay,then you can have any domain name you like). So if you’re happy with that then get over to WordPress.com and get blogging.

2. You have a domain name and a hosted account, which supports MySQL, and PHP and you want total control over your blog. In this case then,there is no question but to use WordPress, it is simply the best.

I highly recommend option 2. With this option YOU own your blog and have complete control. When you use a hosted service they own your blog and you are at their mercy.

What is WordPress?

“WordPress is a powerful personal publishing platform,and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible.We are proud to offer you a freely distributed, standards-compliant, fast,light and free personal publishing platform, with sensible default settings and features,and an extremely customizable core.”

So what can WordPress do and why should you use it? Here are just a few reasons why you should use WordPress:

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Hack Attack: Just How Secure is Your WordPress Blog?

Author: James Stein

People with Internet and web experience of all levels have worked to make sure that their websites, web service accounts and browsers were as safe as they could be from computer hackers. However, the hackers practice an old baseball saying which goes, “If you want to be a success you have to hit ‘em where they ain’t.”

The weakness that the hackers have found is the WordPress Blog. Many may have never considered a blog to be worthy of a hacker’s attention, yet with the way that advertising and marketing dollar potential have soared, that’s what sets a hacker off on their hunt for a victim.

The hacker attacks on WordPress Blogs take the person who wants to come to a particular blog to a different site that’s full of ads, many of them obscene and many of them virus filled, which obviously does not present what was the assumed landing point blog in the best light. In fact, one hacker attack, no matter how quickly it’s spotted and dealt with, can destroy all the work that the owner of that blog has done. If it’s a blog full of content with years of archive material, a hacker’s attack will turn all of that work into worthless untrustworthy words.

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