10 reasons to use wordpress
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Here are slides to Blizzard Internet Marketing’s webinar: 10 Reasons to Use Wordpress to Manage Your Website. To see the webinar in its entirety, you can find it on-demand at http://newsletter.blizzardinternet.com/webinars/ Choosing the right platform for your website can be a large and often costly decision. Wordpress is a content management system that is both user and search engine friendly, and is used by millions of new and seasoned website developers worldwide. Find out why Wordpress is recommended for a search friendly hospitality website that will convert in this webinar by Blizzard Internet Marketing, Inc. Blizzard Internet Marketing, Inc 50629 Hwy 6 Glenwood Springs, CO 81601TRANSCRIPT
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10 Reasons to Use WordPress
By Trent Blizzard, PresidentBlizzard Internet Marketing, Incwww.blizzardinternet.com
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WordPress is open source which means it is available for free.
WordPress operates on the powerful, popular, open-source LAMP stack:Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
WordPress is a stable and mature product. WordPress is the most popular self-hosted
CMS in the world today.
Price: Free
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Fast User Management Add / Update pages Manage Photos Video and Social Internet integrations Scales to huge sizes Easily Customizable by programmer Design Slideshow
Powerful
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Users can easily:◦ Edit existing pages◦ Add new pages◦ Add photos◦ Training Video
Easy
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WordPress is dynamic and fast growing.
WordPress has a large development team.
WordPress is supported by 1000s of design firms around the world.
It is easier to find professionals who work in WordPress than any other similar CMS.
Popular
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WordPress is the most SEO friendly CMS on the market today.
Users can easilyAdd Titles, Descriptions, Metatags, etc.Add H1 tagsName URLs with keywordsCreate sitemaps (htm and xml)Control any element that matters to Google.
SEO Friendly
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Wordpress has an army of developers creating “plugins” which are essentially “features” for your website like: Event Calendars Specials Foreign Language Translations Facebook Widgets Banner Ad Managers Photo Slideshow Availability Calendars Chat Video
Extensible
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WordPress was originally developed as blogging Software.
Adding a Blog to your website has never been easier.
Blog Posts, Categories, RSS feeds, Commenting, Social Internet Integrations, Tagging and Blogrolls all supported.
Blogging
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Many CMS operate in very closed environment… even “black boxes”.
Inevitability, business owners get (or feel) locked in and have to pay a price to leave.
WordPress is unlike Cold Fusion (.cfm), DotNet (.aspx) and other proprietary systems… it is wide open.
Openness
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Picking a platform with a strong future is a difficult task.
Blizzard Internet believes WordPress will provide long-term stable platform to for website content management.
Bright Future
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WordPress Users are perceived as more intelligent than average and garner great respect for choosing a platform that is:
1. Cost Efficient2. Powerful3. Popular4. Easy5. Seo Friendly6. Extensible7. Open8. Hip
You Look Smart
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5/6/2009
Webinars:◦ Top Online Tools Every Hotel Marketer Should Know
AboutNovember 25th, 2009 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM MDT
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◦ On Demand: Google, Link Building, Facebook, SEO
Workshops:◦ All About Google
January 12-13, Long Island
Learn More
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