Setting up a Blog - Guest Authors
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I am planning on setting up a blog in the next couple months. We would like to have 10 different categories that professionals can write about and submit articles. Any suggestions on which blogging software to put on the site. So far I have heard of WordPress and Joomla. (Not sure which is the best version) We want it to maybe have the bloggers logo or pictures, date, etc. None of us have had any experience with this so we needed some input.
I have been reading everywhere that blogging is huge for SEO and so I just wanted to improve ours plus maybe drive more traffic with a high level blog for professionals. Any ideas or even books that I should go purchase to study up. When we do this it would be great to get it set up properly from the get go.
Boo
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I would recommend Wordpress for the same reasons as Moosa and Tommy.
As for books, I would suggest reading Content Rules as this not only discussing blogging but also other useful content such as Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks etc which can all boost SEO.
Best of luck in your blogging adventures! Enjoy.
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I use Wordpress and recommend it to clients. As well as the advantages already listed you will find it very easy to set up author/contributor accounts for your regular writers in order to streamline the publishing process.
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If I would be at your place and I would have given a choice to select one platform bwtween Wordpress and Joomal then my vote will be for Wordpress!
User and SEO Friendly:
WP is more user friendly not only for the user but SEO friendly URLs, SPAM filter for Comments, easy to create post and pages which is not that easy to use in Joomla and then they have so much issues with URLs that somehow contain duplicate URLs!
Plug-ins:
The plugin directory of WP is way bigger as compare to Joomla. With wordpress the admin have multiple choices on one thing which is rear in Joomla!
Fast and Quick Updates:
WP is up-to-date and takes you with the current environment! With Jommla this game is not that simple!
Customization:
With Joomla and WP the customization is possible but (thinking from a developer’s brain) Joomla is way more difficult as compare to WP as they contain clean and clear code!
These are just few out of many differences that you can come up with by simple Googling a bit about it!
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Hi!
My recommendation is absolutely Wordpress. You get access to hundreds of great SEO plugins and it´s very easy to work with.
Reading and plugins for Wordpress - http://yoast.com/wordpress/.
Simple platform = more time for blogging.
Good Luck!
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