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Why Professional Bloggers Choose Wordpress
October 3rd, 2009 | 
Author: There are many different blogging platforms available to todays budding blogger. Squidoo, LiveJournal, Wordpress, Blogspot are just some of the options, and there are many others with seemingly similar features.
It can therefore be a daunting task to decide which of the available blogging platforms will best meet your blogging needs. There is a market leader though - Wordpress. This is the “blog of choice” for most professional bloggers.
Like most other blogging platforms, Wordpress is free. It stands out from it’s competitors for other reasons, such as a higher storage allowance (a quite huge 3 gigs) Also, Wordpress permits you to install their platform on to your own personal website, which most other blogging platforms don’t allow. Not only does installing Wordpress on your website allow for complete control, but you are given all the bandwidth your internet hosting plan allows. No more 3 gig limit!
It’s common for blogging platforms to let their users host images, but Wordpress has another advantage in that as well as hosting images, you can also host a variety of files including PDFs, Word documents and PowerPoint presentations.
The open source nature of Wordpress is a further reason for its popularity as a blogging platform. This allows for limitless flexibility. This reason alone has drawn in many users that previously used the other platforms. Your blog can be almost completely customized in terms of appearance and functionality, making it possible for you to recreate the exact impression of your blog that you’ve formed in your head.
Lets review the benefits of Wordpress over other blogging platforms. We see that we have the option to house the blog on our own sever. We have the ability to host a variety of files on our blogs, and the open source nature of Wordpress code that gives us limitless flexibility. If you haven’t already started using Wordpress, then now is the time to start!
This is a guest post by Matthew Wolfe. He teaches entreprenuers how to create blogs, generate traffic, and make money with his free video tutorials at The Wordpress Classroom. You can also find out more about Matthew, as well as learn more tips and tricks at his personal blog, MatthewWolfe.com.
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