This week the tool I have chosen is WordPress. Now the version of WordPress I am talking about is the WordPress.org one. This is where you host your blog on your own hosting account and have your own domain name. While the .com version is good, you are under the

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control of WordPress and they can shut down your blog at any given time.

So why WordPress? Well what can I say? It offers you so many things…………………………………

• Great SEO
• Great Templates
• Easy To Install On Your Site
• Can Update from Any Computer Or Tablet (and phone) In The World
• Thousands Of Great Themes – This Allows You To Change Often If You Want, By few Mouse Clicks
• Thousands Of Plugins – These Allow You To Automate Many Things That On A Normal Site Would Take You A Long Time
• Google Loves WordPress Blogs and Sites
• And Many Many More Things

WordPress is a must have tool for anyone in business today either offline or online. It allows you to interact with your customers and readers, and you can post something on your blog and within hours Google will have indexed it and it will be there in the search engines. In fact I have written some blog posts and within minutes it has been there. Once It was number 1 on page 1 of Google in 12 minutes.

As well as blogging you can use WordPress as a normal website, but with the ease of the powerful WordPress Platform. So if you have not given it a go yet, what are you waiting for. It is easy to use, easy to put onto your hosting account. It can be down with a few mouse clicks and putting in a user name and password, thats it, you have the basic site set up and ready to go.