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Wix or WordPress – Which is the Best Platform for Blogging?

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There’s Wix and there’s WordPress – Wix or WordPress – which is the best platform for blogging? Have this question answered here and choose the best platform for yourself.

Are you looking start your website? That’s great; I highly appreciate your decision. But are you confused while choosing the platform? We know that WordPress is most popular among the bloggers. Wix is yet another popular website builder that you may have heard. Here, I will explain to you which platform you should choose among Wix or WordPress.

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I hope that you will be able to find the best one after reading this post

This complete post has been divided into five categories Cost, User friendliness, eCommerce support, Flexibility and Design which will help you choose among Wix or WordPress.

• Cost

Website development cost plays a vital role at the time of choosing the platform. The development cost and its maintenance totally depend on upon your needs. So the main aim is to fulfill your needs within the budget.

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Wix

The basic version of Wix website builder is free. Though, there are two major demerits of it. Firstly, it will add the Wix brand advertisement at the top of the website. Secondly, you won’t be able to use your custom domain; you will have to use the domain name as username.wix.com/website name

The next con of basic version of Wix builder is that you cannot add the necessary plugins like Analytics, eCommerce, etc. To get all these customizations, you will have to purchase the premium plan. Since each plan of Wix has its limit of storage and bandwidth and thus you can choose accordingly.

WordPress

On the other hand, WordPress is the software which is available free of cost for anyone. You can easily use it to develop your website. The biggest thing here is that you will have to but your domain and hosting. Though, there are several websites that you can use to buy the domain and hosting I would suggest you go for Bluehost  or Dreamhost . With Bluehost link, you will get one free domain for a year and professional hosting at just $3.45 per month.

There are thousands of free plugins available that will help you in developing your websites.

Conclusion

Here as you can see in the comparison of Wix or WordPress, WordPress beats the new Wix as it’s free and won’t eat up much of your money.

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• User-friendly

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Most of the starters today don’t want to spend much of the time in learning new things. They just want their website to be launched and without any codings and hence one can choose among Wix or WordPress but, let’s see the best one among both.

Wix

Wix has super power website, builder. You will get a simple drag and drop option which you can use to design your website.

You can easily drag and drop the items anywhere on the website, and you can even rearrange the things on your pages, content, media, etc. it provides a user-friendly environment.

WordPress

WordPress also have drag and drop website builders, but by default, it comes with the visual editor which you can use to edit your content and theme. WordPress doesn’t come with drag and drop website builder.

To develop a complete website, the user will have to get used to with the sections like menus, visual post editor customizer, etc. This clearly means that you need to have a bit of knowledge to develop your website on WordPress.

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Conclusion

We have seen that Wix is the winner among Wix or WordPress. Users can easily customize the complete website with just some drag and drops. But, in the case of WordPress, the user will have to install the plugins so that he can get the drag and drop builder.

• Layout and Design

The layout and design of your website play a vital role. A good layout will always attract more and more visitors and thus will have more revenue. Choosing among Wix or WordPress would be the best to get the best layout and design.

Wix

Wix has a collection of around 500+ themes, and you can choose any from these. All the templates are responsive and are written in HTML5. They also have their built-in tools which will help you develop your website as per your choice, and you can easily rearrange them.

There are layouts or templates for each and every type of website. These templates are categorized into business, hobbies, eCommerce, crafts, arts, personal, etc. The biggest disadvantage is that if you have made a selection, you can never change it. You can customize it but you can’t change the theme.

WordPress

There are thousands of WordPress themes available. Some are premium, and some are free. Free themes are not just bad quality ones; they also go through the strict process of approval. Premium themes have huge amount features available, and some even have paid plugins.

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The WordPress themes are available for almost all types of websites or blogs. If you want some premium themes, then you can easily download some of the best themes from best developers like Studiopress, Themeforest, etc. If you are looking to have 100% custom themes, you can hire a developer or a web designing company.

Conclusion

WordPress has got a wide range of themes available, and you also have the option to change the theme at any point in time. Thus WordPress is the winner here.

• Plugins

Plugins are very important for a website because these plugins allow you to modify or add new features to your website. Wix uses “Apps” as the terminology but on the other hand, WordPress use “Plugins.”

Wix

Wix has around 200+ apps that you can use along with your website. You can add many features to your website by adding these apps. Most of the app are available free of cost in the lite plan of Wix. Even since they have lesser number of apps, they have all the most demanding apps that can fulfill the user needs.

WordPress

There are more than 40000 of free plugins available in the WordPress directory. If you are looking for premium ones, then you can get it from the marketplaces like Studiopress, Themeforest, etc. You can use these plugins and modify your website as the way you like, and you can add features whatever you like. In short, you can do anything with WordPress plugins

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Conclusion

Needless to say that WordPress is the winner here as it provides most of the plugins free of cost and thus one can do anything with their website.

• eCommerce

Selling things online is yet another business, and many have big business running over this idea. Let’s see how Wix and WordPress prove themselves here.

Wix

If you are looking to start an eCommerce website on WordPress, then let us inform you that eCommerce is a paid feature on wax. You cannot get this feature free of cost on Wix. With the help of Wix store, you can accept payment only via PayPal or authorize.net. There are some apps available that will help you sell things but those are way too costly than their monthly fee.

WordPress

On WordPress, you have many free plugins that you can use to sell things online. Each plugin has their add on packs which you can add as per your convenience and as per the gateway you are looking for. Most of the eCommerce plugins have their themes and thus you can try getting those as well.

Conclusion

WordPress offers the best and the easiest way to build your store. With Wix, you will have to spend a lot of money.

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Summary

WordPress offers the best features, and so it is considered as the best platform for the beginners to start their online career. Here is a guide that will help you in installing WordPress to Bluehost or any other hosting.

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Infographics – The Best Way to Increase Traffic to Your Blog

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You may have a blog, but if nobody is reading what you are posting there, it feels unfair. Time for you to enhance the traffic to your blog with Inforgraphis – the best way to increase traffic to your blog!

We all know that content delivery is transforming at a great pace. In the past, the content was delivered via text only but, nowadays things has changed and you can see the content getting delivered as video and images. These images are called as “Infographics”. You must have seen people sharing reviews of gadgets over youtube which is another form of sharing content. These type of content is lovable by the readers, Neil Patel on his blog also shared a content to double the traffic.

Increase traffic to blog with infographic

Importance of InfoGraphics

When it comes to blogging, content that provides relevant info with good looks is important and this is the reason why bloggers are running behind infographics. Infographics are the best way to engage readers attention and provide relevant info in one go.  I have seen people investing in content marketing and i would say that its really good, but when you have an infographic marketed by any content marketing platform, your content shouts like anything making more and more people hear what you wanted to say.

These infographics not only please the readers but, help them in understanding that you are really providing a genuine info.

I have seen many bloggers juggling around the ways to increase traffic to their blog, but here I am providing the top way that will help you in increasing traffic to your blog.

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Basic Funda Behind Increase Traffic with Infographics

When you add an infographic to your content, Google index it, add the infographic to its image search. So when a reader search for something related, your infographic is presented at the top and thus you get a boost in ranking and traffic.

Ways blogger can use to Increase Traffic using Infographics

Increase traffic to blog with infographic

 

Get indexed

Share on social media

 

Provide info rich content

 

I hope you liked the content and infographic that i have shared above. Don’t forget to share.

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How I Managed to Get Free Followers on Social Media

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You know what? You need to find out how I managed to get free followers on social media by clicking here and reading everything about it!

Social media is being used by almost everyone today and this is the reason why it is used by marketers and bloggers on a high scale. You can easily find pages and groups managed by bloggers and marketers the reason behind is to increase likes and followers so that to get more amount of social signals for their websites.

Free followers

You must have seen pages and groups with millions of followers and even on twitter; you must have noticed some profile that have got millions of followers.

 Do you know how people get million of followers?

  1. They either have hired someone in order to increase the follower count
  2. They have promoted their profile, page or group in order to get more number of followers

In both the cases, they have spent a good sum of money. Many people even use social warfare but again, you will have to spend money buying it but, the method that I am sharing here will get you free followers for sure and you don’t have to spend a single penny. But before that let us understand

Why are Followers Important?

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There are many reasons why followers are important and not only me but, “Forbes” also says this in one of an article of importance of likes and followers on social media. I have explained the major ones below

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Reason #2 – Increase engagements

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If you have got a good amount of followers on your group, page or profile, then you will get more amounts of engagements. Suppose, if you have published a post on your website and shared it with your profile, page or group then the people who are following that page, profile or group will get the notification that something new have been shared and then they will visit the profile, page or group and if they like the post you shared, they will surely like and share it which will increase the engagement of others too.

Reason #2 – Improves ranking

In last some years Google and other search engines have improved a lot. They have become so intelligent that they can easily keep an eye on the all the activities done on the social media linked with your website. These search engines notice the activity performed on the social media profile, page or group linked to your website and understand that people are taking interest in the content you share, and thus your website will be rewarded with good ranking in return. This is even experienced by “Brian Honigman” and he accepted this in one of his post as social media effects SEO .

Hence, I would say that if you have a blog, you should never ignore social media as it will boost the ranking of your blog.

How I got Free Followers on social media?

I hope you came to know why followers are important. Keeping the above things in mind I have followed various methods (Paid even) but all are waste of time and money. I even hired the team of social media experts but what they delivered me was all waste as more than 90% of the follower are fake profiles.

Method that worked for me

One day I was just browsing the internet and what I found was awesome. I read somewhere that “content is king” not only for your blog but also for your social media.

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For Facebook

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Keeping this in mind, I first joined a couple of groups that are as per the niche of my blog (that’s the best way to find the right audience). You just have to write the word related to the niche of your blog on the search bar. I have entered the word “blogging“. Then, I started sharing good and useful content from all over the web on those groups. What I found was really surprising; members of those groups are liking and sharing my content. If you know some people who like to share your content, you can either search them by entering their names in the Facebook search or if you want you can even do a facebook search for people without logging in and find out the exact person. Then, send them a request and add them so that they can start sharing your content.

Then, I shared the content of my page to those groups and I got the same reply from the audience. I was glad that my trick is working awesomely. I then decided to join more groups and follow the same method. I started posting good contents from the web and in between, I use to share the content of my own page. This strategy kept the audience engaged as they are getting info as per their need and my posts started getting a good amount of likes and this thing increased my free followers. Even the most famous “Neil Patel” also says the same in his guide to boost facebook organic search.

That was the day when I came to know that “content is really the king of internet”. The best content you share the best results you will get but you will have to place the content in front of the right audience.

Things to remember for Facebook

    1. Be regular and active
    2. Talk to people by commenting and if they have any queries, make sure that you provide them the right answer and if you are not sure, better give them at least an idea or hint.
    3. Never forget to share the content on all the groups of the same niche.
    4. Share interesting info from all over the web and in between share the post of your page too.

For Twitter

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When it comes to twitter, I found that there are no groups and thus finding the right audience is a bit difficult. But, here too I followed a trick which I have explained below.

The first thing that I did is searched for some bloggers by writing the word “blogging” in the search bar. I have got some people who have verified profile (Blue tick mark ones). I followed them, some ignored me and some followed me back. Then, I went inside the profiles and gone through their followers. I then followed some people who have a complete profile and have the word “blogger” written in the description. Then, I came back to my profile and started retweeting and linking the posts that already have been retweeted many times, and it worked like a charm. I have got 300+ free followers that are active on twitter. You can even follow the strategies to target your twitter followers shared by Neil Patel.

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Now, I follow the same method for twitter all the time and the count of free followers are increasing day by day.

Things to remember for twitter

  1. Never follow any company because they are not going to follow you back.
  2. Be regular and active.
  3. Don’t forget to unfollow the people who are not following you back (even after 3 days of your follow).
  4. Don’t just retweet the website posts, retweet whatever you like, be natural.
  5. Always try to keep the following count lower than the follower’s count. This will help People understand that you are sharing valuable posts and that’s the reason why numbers of people are following you.

If you follow the steps given above properly, you will surely get a good response from people. Many people will comment or reply to your post in a negative way, so instead of arguing, better ignore them.

I hope you will get a good amount of free followers. I am working on Google+ and others too will update the info soon.

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