Why Professional Bloggers Choose Wordpress

There are many different blogging platforms available to todays budding blogger. Squidoo, LiveJournal, Wordpress, Blogspot and many others all seem to boast similar features at face value.

It can therefore be a daunting task to decide which of the available blogging platforms will best meet your blogging needs. However, most professional bloggers name Wordpress as their “blog of choice”.

Wordpress, like the majority of other blogging platforms, is free to use. 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. Should you install Wordpress on your own domain, which isn’t necessary but is recommended, you’ll have complete control over it and you are given all the bandwidth your internet hosting plan allows. No more 3 gig limit!

While most blogging platforms allow for only the hosting of image files, Wordpress offers another another benefit 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, allowing you to create your version of a definitive blogging experience for your visitors.

So, lets quickly review why Wordpress is the preferred choice for bloggers. We see that the option is there to install it on your own server. We have the ability to host a variety of files on our blogs, and the the limitless flexibility afforded by its open source nature. Now is the time for you non Wordpress users to follow the example of professional bloggers!

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.