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WordPress vs Drupal: Which CMS is Right for Your Site?

Idaconcpts

Two of the most popular packages are WordPress and Drupal. According to Drupal’s own statistics, over a million websites run this CMS package. Even more interesting, Drupal is preferred by sites that have high traffic numbers. First, a little bit about both CMSes: WordPress. Read on to find out why.

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Use Forums to Boost Your Blog’s Value

ProBlogger

Consider the potential of integrating forums into your website. Working with an online community development expert, Heather integrated a Q&A forum into her website. How forums add value. Yet with forums, you gain a source of new content that won’t require much day-to-day commitment on your end. It worked for Dooce.

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Leverage Multi-Social Media Platforms to Tell Stories

Direct Marketing Observations

So let’s think through that quickly about the multiple platforms that you, me, and your organization can now use to convey your key message themes: Blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Forums, Websites, QR Codes, Group Buying sites, and LBS( location based sites)-to name but a few. Rich stories.

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5 Things You Can’t Blog Successfully Without

Writtent Blog

Open source content management systems like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal are good options. Are you guest posting, commenting on other blogs, and getting involved in forum discussions? Offering a variety of themes, plugins, extensions, etc., People need to find you, which requires ongoing promotion.

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Donations as Revenue: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Wordpress blogging platform has people donating plugins or using money donations to have work done. Here is a typical widget from Wordpress 3rd party developers which allows bloggers to ask for donations on their blog, and uses PayPal as the backend for donations across the online community.

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8 Best Practices for Collaborative Blog Groups

Kikolani

Otherwise, you can include the links above, but do not make them live – this way people have to cut and paste into a new window, which makes sure that the referrer to the network is not always the blog group or forum URL. WordPress Hack. WordPress Attacks. Member Promotion. assuming that the contributors want to be found.

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70+ Resources on How to Start a WordPress Blog

Kikolani

However, if you want to set up a business site, I suggest WordPress. You can use a hosted WordPress or a WordPress installation. The next list includes sites that have the installable version of the software (like the WordPress that we will be discussing). The WordPress Installation. I’ll wait.