WordPress – Dominating the Internet

WordPress is an open source blogging tool and the most popular content management system on the internet. it´s popularity lies on its simplicity, elegance and functionality, it is very simple to use, and has many features such as re-arranging widgets without making changes on the page´s code, integrated link management, automatic filters and the ability of tagging, that as we know, is extremely useful in sharing information and marketing.

Why use WordPress?

Today WordPress has tens of millions of daily users, with many purposes from magazine websites, business websites, recreational blogging, self-promotion, to marketing among many others. The reason why it is such a popular tool is because it is very easy to manage and display dynamic content; it will definitely reduce your workload if you are in the business of web designing, it also has a functional Application Programming Interface and useful plug-ins besides its large user base and community make it easy to share and interact with each other.

WordPress in numbers

There are currently over sixty four million WordPress websites in the world, with over three hundred monthly viewers and two and a half billion page views monthly. On average, the users of this tool produce around five hundred thousand posts and four hundred thousand new comments every day.

Notable WordPress users:

•  CNN

One of the leading news corporations has their very own on-air personality blogs with Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta among others.

• Forbes

The leading source for reliable news and financial information

• Reuters

Their blog delivers critical news powered by the world’s most reliable news organizations.

Now here are some examples of worldwide known brands, personalities and companies that blog on WordPress.

1. Ebay. http://ebayinkblog.com/
2. Yahoo. http://ycorpblog.com/
3. Digg Blog. http://about.digg.com/blog
4. Ford. http://social.ford.com/
5. The Wall Street Journal. http://blogs.wsj.com/law/
6. Sony http://electronicsblog.sel.sony.com/sony/default.aspx
7. People Magazine. http://stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com/
8. Samsung. http://www.samsungusanews.com/
9. Playstation. http://blog.us.playstation.com/
10. NYTimes. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/blogs/directory.html
11. Wired. http://www.webmonkey.com/
12. Mozilla Firefox. http://blog.mozilla.com/
13. Giga Om. http://gigaom.com/
14. Network Solutions. http://about.networksolutions.com/
15. Flickr. http://code.flickr.com/blog/
16. Download.com. http://download.cnet.com/download-blog/
17. Ben & Jerry. http://wordpress.org/showcase/ben-jerrys-blog/
18. CPanel. http://www.cpanel.net/news.html
19. General Electric. http://ge.geglobalresearch.com/blog/
20. Rackspace. http://www.vps.net/

As you can see, companies from all over the spectrum have their own WordPress websites, from small businesses, to news corporations, magazines, sports teams, software developers, hardware manufacturers, media sites etc.

Blogging has become a very popular form of online interaction, allowing all those who choose to have a blog to submit entries with updates about their lives, reports on important matters, the ability to share images and videos with their “audiences” and interact with them via comments and responses. It has certainly become a modern-time movement, an ode to freedom of speech. That is why it is so important to capitalize on these tools that we have at our disposal in the current digital age. As almost everything on the internet the costs are lower than the conventional ways of marketing and publishing of information so we would be foolish to pass up on the opportunity to join this growing trend.