1. Google loves WordPress (and blogs in general) because search engines favor sites that have regularly created fresh content.  See my post on SEO.
2. WordPress is interactive.  Visitors can comment on pages and posts.  You can create a community around your business with your site.
3. You can organize content with categories and visitors can view or subscribe to the categories they want to.
4. You can automatically sync your content to social websites such as Facebook with the RSS feed.
5. WordPress sites can be translatable into many languages.
6. WordPress sites are easy to update (far easier than reglular html or Joomla).
7. Multiple authors and editors can contribute to writing content and posting photos or video (you can DELEGATE!)
8. You can add PayPal buttons or a shopping cart to monetize your site (you can MAKE MONEY!)
9. You can embed video from YouTube easily (YouTube is second to Google as a search engine now!)
10. WordPress is open-source and is constantly evolving (it’s always getting better!)
11. OK one more: WordPress is easy to learn!

There are more advanced reasons that concern templates, tags and permalinks, but the 10 reasons listed above should satisfy most folks who need a fast and easy way to get their business website up and running.

Here is a screenshot of what WordPress looks like from the back-end:

Live in Nevada County and want to learn more about WordPress in person?  Come to my free class.

Modify this code: <script src=”http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/youtube.xml&amp;up_channel=YourChannelName&amp;synd=open&amp;w=320&amp;h=390&amp;title=&amp;border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999&amp;output=js”></script>

and place the code with your Channel Name inside of it into the HTML editor of your WordPress page or post editor.

That’s it! Easy! All of the colors you set up in your Channel from within YouTube will show.

You can also grab the embed code from your channel page to alter width and height. Make sure you are logged in. See this page: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138346

Here is a short video that teaches you how to add a Facebook fan box to your WordPress site.  You can watch the video on my website (and folks with Mac’s Mail program may even be able to watch it in their email!) and you can also subscribe to my YouTube Channel.

How is your WordPress website/blog coming along? Would love to hear from you.

Here to help you make your finest dreams come true,

-Catherine

This video teaches you how to add an admin to your Facebook page and is the first of a series of short video tutorials I will be making about how to use WordPress, Facebook, Twitter and more.

Watch the video.

If you’re a musical artist, or any kind of visual artist (hair, website designer, dancer, sculptor, painter, etc.) for that matter, you can put your work up on YouTube.  For example, if you are a musical artist, do what Mark Maxwell has done.  If you are a visual artist, create a slideshow and set your favorite pieces to music.  You get the idea… Have fun with it!

Here to help you make your finest dreams come true,

-Catherine