Blog as CMS

September 7, 2008

CMS stands for Content Management System.  It is what us tech oriented people say when we are talking about software that allows non-tech people to manage their website effectively.

Wordpress is the industry standard software for running a blog.  It is also a CMS.

Blogs are not different from websites.  They are just a certain publishing philosophy.  Many CMS’s have built blogs into their cms.  And now, I would argue that Wordpress has become a top cms itself.

I released a new site last week, Marketing Mastery Advisory Board.  It uses wordpress and looks less like a blog than many other sites.  There are a lot of great themes out there that you only have to customize.

Even when I talk now, I tell peoople not to call them blogs.  It has a certain connotation that it is less serious (to the unblogeducated).

If you are setting up a website for anything, you have to look at what you want to accomplish.  Wordpress is not the easiest, but it is not bad to use for non-tech.  And it gets great search engine results if configured properly and you know how to write with search engines in mind.

The reasons I would not use Wordpress is to create an online community or as an ecommerce site where I was going to have a lot of products.  Otherwise, it is an excellent, cheap cms for you that gets great results.

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Posted by Ron McDaniel | Filed Under Blog, Buzz with Blogs 

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2 Responses to “Blog as CMS”

  1. Simon Slade on September 7th, 2008 8:35 pm

    Without this kind of software, the less tech-savvy among us would not be able to add their opinions and expert knowledge to the net. These individuals make a worthwhile contribution to business on the internet so CMS’s need to be widely advertised and encouraged. Thank you for this informative post.

    :)

  2. Tom Lindstrom, The Home Business Archive on September 11th, 2008 6:19 am

    I use a self hosted Wordpress blog, and I think it is the absolutely best content management system there is available.With the SEO plugins it becomes a real authority online that ranks really well.

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