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Posted by advertolog at Saturday ~ November 11, 2007 to SEO
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by Tiara Rea

Here at Lunarpages, we’re really keen on blog hosting, and we really try to tailor our website hosting plans to that medium, offering a variety of free tools to cover all your blogging needs. And indeed, blogging is a very important task that many businesses and webmasters use to increase SEO exposure and to provide a link between their top-level execs and the customers who trust them for new information and connection. A blog can make the difference between a devoted audience ready to buy, and a poor website with little to no interactivity. D’awww.

With so many blogging options to choose from at Lunarpages, this can sometimes make it hard to choose just one for your website! So I thought it might be helpful to compare two of the most popular options for blogging here at Lunarpages to show you their strengths.

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As the current most popular blogging platform in the world, WordPress actually has done a lot for blogging tools in the contemporary market, offering hosted solutions as well as fully-customizable host-anywhere versions, similar to what we provide. You can add themes and layouts and have the ability to easily create your own templates or download others. In fact, Lunarpages uses WordPress for our own blog that you’re reading right now! Small world, I know. Plus, we have many WordPress layouts you can download for free and our crazy designer Todd is always adding new ones to our Newsletter and blog!

Another cool addition, WordPress also offers built-in SEO tools and a sweet dashboard that encompasses many aspects of easy blog design and development: for example, from this dashboard you can monitor your site’s incoming links and referrers, see your blog’s hits and track visitors, add/edit/manage sidebar widgets (for bio texts, images, Flickr galleries, IM sessions, and more), as well as customize the CSS of your blog’s design or choose from a variety of pre-made layouts immediately available for download. You can also do all the great things other blogging tools can do, such as creating private posts, adding tags, managing outbound links, and a ton more. WordPress is such a great choice for building your first blog (there’s little to no learning curve) or taking your company’s blog to the next level, and can be installed with one click via Fantastico in your CPanel. Need help with that? Call us up and we’ll get you started.

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As one of the newer blogging tools on the market, b2evolution is open source software, meaning it’s 100% free for download and install! It has all those great features you’d expect from a traditional blogging solution (posting groups and tools, templates, etc) but also takes blogging one step further with really awesome AntiSpam software to block spammers, comments, and even users if necessary; a multiple blogging feature that allows you to host any number of blogs, such as photo blogs, personal or business blogs, SEO blogs, web hosting blogs (like us!), article blogs, etc; multiple authors and webmasters; integrated stats with graphs for details on robots, RSS feeds, daily hits, and more; as well as even more features that you can check out by visiting their site. Though b2 needs to be downloaded, Lunarpages is one of their recommended hosts, so all necessary software can be integrated with any of our packages seamlessly.

Other Blogging Tools

While the two blog hosting tools above are definitely the most popular, many people prefer to use CMS or the other tools we provide, such as pMachine Free and NucleusCMS, all of which you can install via Fantastico in one-click. Plus, blogging tools such as LiveJournal and other popular blogging platforms can be used without qualms. If you’re confused or need to know if your favorite blogging solution will work on LP, give us a call and we’ll help you sort it out. :)

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