I use and adore Wordpress (and you should too), because:
- Google loves Wordpress blogs, indexes and ranks them quickly
- There are a crapload of plugins available so you can make it do just about anything
- It’s already in your Cpanel’s Fantastico so it’s a breeze to install
On the pages linked here there is a step-by-step system for using Wordpress - from market research to finding affiliate programs to promote to actually generating traffic to your new Wordpress blog.
Please, please, go check this out. It’s very important information from a marketer I consider to be the guy who “showed me the light” about what IM is really all about. Having the opportunity to see how he thinks, how he runs his own business, is invaluable.
I should also mention that the info on the pages is *free*, no email address required. Go have a read.
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I absolutely love Wordpress! I use it to build many of my niches, and the result is awesome!
You can also add a “blog” on top of your website, build some unique content and then just dump some RSS content in it, put a link back to your homepage on every post and you double your traffic!
Thanks Michelle for the wonderful resource link. Got a thumbsup on StumbleUpon, retweet on Twitter and a Digg!
Shinil.
@shinils on Twitter - http://twitter.com/shinils
The links in the post don’t appear to work for me?!? “We’re sorry, but the page you requested has produced an error and cannot be displayed.” Thoughts?
Diane Carter
@sam101 on Twitter - http://twitter.com/sam101
The links are working this morning.
Wordpress is by far the best blogging platform out there. 
Great link too!
October 10, 2008
Hi Michelle! First I wanna say thanks for all the wonderful advice and training you’ve given me over the last couple of weeks. I’d still be lost in lala land without you. I’ll try to make this brief. I started my IM adventure a couple of months ago with the thirty day challenge. I purchased my own domain and hosting, set up a wordpress direct blog(which I’ll call blog1), and started adding some content. I did a little social bookmarking and was pleased to find that my blog ranked at #8 on Google after just 2 days. I built a squidoo lens, set up a weebly site, hubpages site,etc. all pointing back to blog1. I made a few sales, and for the last 3 weeks I’ve been hovering around the #3 spot. But the problem is that I’m not getting much traffic. So in an attempt to increase the size of my traffic web, I started a blog (blog2) on the other wordpress site.(Wordpress Direct blog1- Wordpress blog2). I linked blog2 back to blog1 and that night blog1 dropped all the way down to #35. I left it alone for a couple of days to see if it was just a quirk, and sadly there was no change. So this afternoon I deleted blog2 and now blog1 is back up to #4. Do yo have any thoughts on what happened? I actually liked wordpress more than wordpress direct.
Yeah WordPress is awesome. Shouldn’t Google prefer Blogger blogs since they are part of Google? Thanks for those links by the way!
Wow, I’m surprised nobody mentioned theme selection. One of the most fun bonuses is changing your themes.
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