Advantages of using Wordpress for affiliate sites

Advantages of Wordpress in no particular order:

1. Online access using your web browser means you can add content from any computer, anywhere in the world.

2. “WYSIWYG” editor. This stands for “What You See Is What You Get”. In other words, you can create your content in the editor, and see how it is going to look as you create it. Format headers, add images, and see it right there in the editor.

3. Automatic updates of menus and pages as you add new content. One of the “pains” associated with traditional web editors is that you need to add new pages to menus, sitemaps, etc

4. Huge following for Wordpress, and therefore a lot of support.

5. Plugins make Wordpress extendable. Adding new features is as easy as uploading some files, and activating the plugin.

6. It’s fr.ee

7. Lot’s of fr.ee themes to change the look and feel of your site quickly, and effortlessly.

8. WordPress adheres to W3C standards for XHTML and CSS.

9. WordPress has a built-in trackback or pingback feature.

10. Frequent updates.

11. Easy to install.

12. Easy to update existing “pages”, or add new ones.

13. Comments can be posted by site visitors, naturally growing your content.

If you are a seasoned Wordpress user, I am sure you can come up with even more benefits. Please feel free to add them as comments to this post. No need to register to leave a comment.

For those of you that are new to Wordpress, hopefully you can see that this platform has a lot going for it.