Choosing the Right Blogging Tool
Blogging has become a very important task that many businesses and webmasters alike have taken up to increase SEO exposure in Google and the major search engines as well as providing a link between their top-level execs and the customers who trust them for their daily purchases and information. A blog can make the difference between a devoted audience ready and willing to give their opinions on your latest products, offers, and ideas, and a weak website with little to no interactivity.
With Lunarpages, we offer several different blogging options, which often makes it hard to choose just one for your website! So let’s compare our two most popular blogging tools to help you decide on the easiest one to use on your website hosting account with Lunarpages.
WordPress
By far the current most popular blogging platform, WordPress revolutionized blogging tools in the contemporary market by offering hosted options for their platforms as well as a fully-customizable theme or layout and the ability to easily create your own templates or download others. In fact, Lunarpages uses WordPress for our own blog and we have many WordPress layouts you can download for free!
WordPress also offers built-in SEO tools, along with a dashboard that encompasses many aspects of easy blog design: for example, from this dashboard you can monitor your site’s incoming links and referrers, see your blog’s popularity and hits, add or manage sidebar widgets (for bio texts, images, Flickr galleries , IM sessions, and more), and even customize the CSS of your blog’s layout or choose from a variety of pre-made templates immediately available for download. You can also create private posts, add tags and manage outbound links, and more. WordPress is truly a great choice for building your first blog or taking your company’s blog to the next level, and can be installed with one click via Fantastico in your CPanel.
b2evolution
b2evolution is one of the newer blogging tools on the market and is open source software, which means it’s always 100% free to download and install! It has all the traditional blogging features you would expect (posting groups and tools, templates, etc) but also takes blogging one step further with AntiSpam software to block spam, comments, and users; a multiple blogging feature that allows you to host any combination of blogs you want, such as photo blogs, personal or business blogs, article blogs, etc; multiple authors and webmasters; integrated stats with graphs for detailed listings of robots, RSS feeds, daily hits, etc; and even more features that you can check out by visiting their site. b2evolution needs to be downloaded but Lunarpages is one of their recommended hosts and all software works seamlessly with any of our packages.
Other Blogging Tools
Lunarpages also offers pMachine Free and NucleusCMS via Fantastico as one-click installs, and blogging tools such as LiveJournal and other popular tools can be used without qualms. Call one of our sales associates today at 0800-072-9150 to find out if your personal favorite blogging tool will work with our website hosting packages!
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