WordPress Blog Overview
by Samsonmedia on Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 | 4 Comments
A good general overview about the major differences between a blog and a regular website.
Blog Compared to Regular Website
- Allow you to add unlimited additional pages with the click of a button
- Allow you to easily change and add text, links, video & graphics
- Allow you to add hundreds of plug-ins (they’re like Smart phone apps)
- Attract search engine traffic organically
- Broadcast your content to other web properties
- Change the entire look and feel with the click of a button
- Allow people to post comments
- Schedule web pages to go live at designated dates and times
- Allow multiple people to work on the site with different levels of access
- Aggragate all your pages and content by categories
- Offer a very robust, built-in, search function for finding content throughout your site
- Create unique page URLs on the fly (in search engine friendly plain English)
- No need for FTP (90% of the time)
And much more!
Gene, I had a question about broadcasting to my other web properties. Do people have to opt in or does it broadcast automatically to everyone linked to me on, say, my Facebook page?
Hi Andrew, you’re asking several questions rolled together so I’m not sure what you’re trying to do. When you say “broadcasting” to your other web properties do you mean Facebook? If you hook your blog’s RSS feed into FB, for instance, whenever you blogged it would automatically post to FB (assuming you hooked it up). And everyione who follows you on FB would consume your content there — on FB — because they are essentially already “opted-in.” Is that what you mean?
That’s pretty much it Gene. Facebook might not be the best example since there is an assumption that people are following you. I had an experience where a blog of someone I knew starting arriving in my gmail in box. That felt a bit intrusive since I had never asked to get it and I was clearly not the audience for it. It took several attempts before it went away.
It makes sense to me that networked sites like Facebook or LinkedIn be automatic, but with everything knitted together I wonder if I have the ability to customize the broadcasting to suit my needs.
Short answer: yes. You have total control over where your messages get seen when using your RSS feed.