Advantages of using WordPress for affiliate sites
June 22, 2008 by Andy
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.
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I am in the process of building my first website using the WordPress platform and I think one of best features is the ability to write your content in WYSIWIG and easily switch to HTML to insert images or scripts. You can also view what your feature will look like before it is published and you can test all of your links and Alt tags etc offline. The whole program is really exciting to play around with, very novice friendly! WordPress has many tutorial features within its design and has plenty of technical articles to support all of its many Add-on and Plug-in features.
On the subject of Fantastico WordPress installations, one very useful feature is the ‘one click uninstall’ button, just incase you mess up. One click of the uninstall button and within seconds you are ready to start over again.
I hope this helps. Great idea to run this tutorial Andy, thank you for your effort.
Eddie
Hi Andy: I have a site for hydrogen fuel as an additive to increase miles per gallon or Liter for cars/trucks. I used Fantastico from my c-pane to set up my WordPress blog and it was simple to establish. Also using key words in the site’s title helps with traffic. Google hasn’t seriously crawled my site for inclusion in their data files yet but who needs them? I think that I am in their “sandbox” but using WordPress and monetizing ( very easy) with text widgets has brought me my first ever affiliate dollars. Very small but growing every month. You are definitely the one Internet Marketer that has always been on the money. Bless you and much thanks, Jim Ott
First, I would like to thank you for everything that you’re doing. I have been following you all this time and I must say that you provide excellent material. I really would like to learn WordPress so I can use it for one of your blueprints but I ran into a problem about this and I quote: “The other thing you need is your domains FTP login details, so if you are unsure, go ask your host. Without these, you will not be able to follow this, or future WordPress tutorials.” I am with SBI and I don’t think they support FTP. Is there a work around this problem?
I read about your Nova Scotia vacation. Had I known that my husband and I could have taken you out to lunch for I live in the neighboring province of New Brunswick except during the winter months from mid October to mid April.
Evelyn
Evelyn
Since you are using Site Build It!, this tutorial may not be what you want. This is going to show how to create affliate sites with WordPress. You have SBI, so don’t need to use WordPress. If you want to, that’s a different matter, but I would recommend a cheaper alternative, since you are paying a big annual fee for SBI, that includes a site builder.
Hi Andy,
Please know that my inquiry has no ‘skeptical’ connotations to it whatsoever, I’m just simply curious of how it may differ from other WYSIWYG editors = that’s all
Since WYSIWYG editors have had quite a dubious (and at times, negative) reputation, as so many knowledgeable IT experts out there, say that these type of editors cannot be trusted 100% per cent.
I understand this philosophy, as a person can never tell if the content that you’re uploading, will consistently be 100% accurate, as you’re completely relying on the WYSIWYG editor’s built-in capabilities.
So my question is, how can we be completely confident that what we are hoping will end up accurate, will indeed be the case when using this medium? OR, does WordPress have some special WYSIWYG code-detectives inside its system that can catch any potential errors in its coding? ‘)
Thanks very much for your time Andy!
Best,
Mark
Hi Mark
I think you are worrying unduley. Any editor is likely to have issues here and there, but the most important factor for a page to rank well is the content on the page, and the links pointing to the page, NOT whether the web page validates without any errors. Having said that, I have no reason to beleive that WordPress’ WYSIWYG editor has problems.
thank you Andy for your very quick and ‘relieving’ response. That’s all I needed to hear! As I mentioned earlier, I wasn’t skeptical, but moreso, just wanting to clearly understand how WP works around such potential glitches. I would imagine that it can’t have that many, if so many thousands upon thousands, if not millions, of people are using it daily. I think you’re doing a great job with teaching us and I applaud and commend you for your efforts and generosity!
**** Side Note, I fully concur with you in a recent email of yours, that you were disappointed with many people complaining, that some of these tasks were ‘too difficult’, – for example, if you don’t have Fantastico, people would have to carry out the task manually. No great accomplishments are typically achieved easily…it takes work and more often than not – alot of it. Do I want to really learn html code, php, css, etc???? Well no, not really, but I put my preferences aside and and just suck it up and do it, as I know it will be beneficial for me in the long run…so I ‘m always up for the challenge.
Like Walt Disney said – “If you can dream it, you can do it” – simple statement, but very true. Right now with all the technical aspects that lie ahead of me (as that’s the part of the biz that’s really hanging me up right now – coding – but the rest for me is fun), I feel like I’m at the foot of Mt. Everest looking up to the peak – a long and arduous journey ahead indeed, but I can’t wait for that euphoric feeling when I’m finally at the top!
Thanks again Andy ,
Best Mark
Hi Andy ,
Just want to say that some will follow , some will not , may not ,would not , cannot …
But keep up the good work for those who are following !
Thanks,
YH CHONG
Hello: I was about to purchase SEO Builder and found this site. For someone who is starting out to build a site for affiliate marketing or PLR content, which one would you recommend? And thank you very much for all the valuable information.
Aya
WordPress is a great tool for affiliate websites, but it does take a lot of tweaking to get it setup. If you are a complete newbie, I would recommend a different editor, or at least learn how to use WordPress for Affiliate sites.
Hi Andy,
Thanks for an interesting in sight for using WordPress to create affiliate sites. Now given the choice, would you still use WordPress compared to say Xsitepro? I have the latter but not yet used it. Be grateful for your thoughts.
Thanks
Robin.
Robin
I am a lifelong Dreamweaver user (which is a far better tool than XSite Pro), and I am convinced enough to leave Dreamweaver behind. WordPress IMO is the way forward.
While Fantiastico does make installation easier, fantastico is quite often one or two versions behind the current stable one. Simple Scripts which my host, http://www.hostmonster, offers in addition to fantastico is great. Simple scripts will have the current version of wordpress, usually within days of the official release. It now also offers a fantastico conversion that works like a charm.