WordPress Versus WordPressDirect

[mawest]

Hi everybody! France still smelling cheese!

Ok my question is simple, can we use wordpress instead of wordpressDirect?

There are plenty of plugins made for optimisation in WordPress like "SEO all in one"...

Im only talking in an optimization purpose (Clean HTML, plugins for modules etc...), i know WordpressDirect offers interactions with Market samurai etc.. but this is not the point.

Does someone experienced it? I saw couple of website made with it that looks good and where well ranked.

I would appreciate an answer, from either a man or a woman
thank you.

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[DeanRichards]

Wordpress Direct is a management tool and if you use it, it will install a Wordpress blog on your site.

However, you do not need to use Wordpress Direct if you don't want to. You can, as you say, do your own installation and then set up your own SEO plugins as needed.

The main reason The Challenge recommends WordpressDirect is that it allows an easy and fast way for newbies to install a fully optimized blog in just a few clicks.

[mawest]

Thank you , im studying it , actually im studying all the challenge, im installing my domain soon. Thanks

[Donna Shaner]

Hi Dean,
You have been very helpful to me previously and I have a question in relation to wordpress direct.
I have set up my first wordpress direct blog as Marty showed us how to do in Module 2. I am now on Module 3, day 5. Guru Bob is showing how to set up a blog for posterous. Am I supposed to set up another blog? Do I use the one I have already set-up when watching Marty's video. I am feeling dazed and confused, help.
Much Appreciated,
Donna Shaner

[DeanRichards]

Hi Donna,

The blogs GuruBob is talking about are satellite sites created not on your own domain with WPD, but instead are setup at the specific places mentioned, like Tumblr and WordPress.com.

In other words, you are building more new sites in different places to allow you to manufacture your own backlinks and to help you build more authority.

[eshapard]

What exactly does Wordpress Direct do to make the site SEO optimized???

I don't like the magic black box approach.

[DeanRichards]

What exactly does Wordpress Direct do to make the site SEO optimized???

You would have to ask them; we can't speak for WPD.

I don't like the magic black box approach.

No one is claiming any magic. The difference is between a properly optimized blog and one that isn't. Optimization helps, but there's nothing magical or even slightly mysterious about that.

[SchoolPals]

Is WPD only for blogging? I have an established ASP site which needs updating. I sell products, but I'm not really interested in posting blogs. Can I do e-commerce on a WPD site? Or is WP better for this?

[DeanRichards]

WPD is only for sites built with WordPress. If you wanted to move your old site onto the WordPress platform, you could certainly do that. There may be a more elegant solution, but at the very least you could copy/paste it page by page. That may or may not be an issue depending on how many pages you have.

You could probably setup your permalinks in WordPress to match your existing URLs pretty closely but you'd have to use a 301 redirect on your 404 page to keep your backlinks pointing to a valid page.

For a while, Google gave automatic weight to blogs. Those days are gone, but it is still a platform that Google understands well and one that has many advantages; not the least of which is the ease of use and the fact that you can update it as simply as sending an email (literally).

Can I do e-commerce on a WPD site?

WPD is an administration platform for WordPress based sites, so the site is a WordPress site, not really a WPD site.

WordPress does have e-commerce plugins that you can get, but I don't know how much ability you would have to administrate them through WPD, you would have to ask them.