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One: A WordPress blog is easy to manage. Anyone, no matter how limited their online experience, can operate a blog with only the most basic instruction. It is easy to add new content or change existing information. Working with images is also easy. The control panel, called the Dashboard, puts everything within reach and makes it all step-by-step. Nothing difficult here!

Two: A WordPress blog is extremely user friendly. Ease of use is the holy grail of websites. WordPress blogs offer many options to present your visitors with an array of features that may be easily set up, clearly presented, and, like everything else, administered from the Dashboard. You present, and control, a structure targeted directly to the theme or concept you wish your visitors to experience.

Three: WordPress blogs receive the most exposure of any websites on the Internet. The versatility, extensive content, and continual updating, allow it to control your selected keywords in search engine results. Of course you are not the only one using a blog to your advantage so it still takes consistent application of the right stuff. WordPress blogs just make it easier.

Four: Your income potential with a monetized WordPress blog is pretty much limitless. If you have correctly targeted your blog content to attract a niche readership and you add the right offerings for them using AdSense, Amazon, and other affiliate programs, your blog can be working for you around the clock. It takes work and development over time but it is possible. Many are already doing it.

Five: A WordPress blog is affordable. The software, many pre-designed themes, and most plug-ins, are free so you can get started without much outlay. All you need is hosting space and your own domain name. You can even get started with free hosting and a sub-domain (someone else’s domain) but it is really best to start with your own if you are serious.

Over time old adages often get misquoted thus changing their intended meaning. “Money is the root of all evil” is an example of a meaning changing misquote that leads many people to the wrong idea. The original, “The love of money is the root of all evil“, referencing greed, is the real deal.

In a similar way, “You usually get what you pay for” has been simplified over the years to “You get what you pay for” leaning many to believe that anything that is free of cost is also without value. Nothing could be further from the truth!

Although there are many things that are free, and pretty much without value, there are also many, many, good things that can be found that have no price tag attached. In the area of software several excellent examples come immediately to mind:

• LINUX is an excellent free operating system for PCs.

• Open Office is a world class office productivity suite.

• PHPBB is a top quality discussion forum package.

• WordPress (and WPMU) is a free blog/website server.

• Pegasus Mail is a powerful, secure, email client.

These packages are prime selections for replacing such mainstream offerings as Windows, MS Office, Outlook Express, and others, and each one is absolutely free.

There are many great free (or inexpensive) offerings in the software world. Don’t feel you need to spend lots of money, or be tied to the well known brand names, in order to get quality. In fact, many times the better product is also the free one!