why i switched to WordPress

ever since i switched my blogging platform over to WordPress a couple weeks ago, i’ve had tons of people ask me one simple question, “Why?”. good question. {honestly, it was my most stressful week in blogland to date. so glad it is over and all you lovelies are still here!!} i was very anti on making the leap of blind faith from Blogger to WordPress. i knew the ins and outs of Blogger. felt confident and comfortable with it. so why switch? well, its a little thing called SEO {Search Engine Optimization} basically in a nutshell, it helps your blog show up more frequently in online search engines {like Yahoo, Google, etc}.

Why is SEO Important?

improving your SEO helps your blog’s link show up higher and more frequently in search results. the higher your blog’s link shows up in the search results, the more likely the searcher will click on your link. therefore, resulting in more traffic to your blog. {feel like you’re in a science class proving a science experiment or something? haha} it sounds all scientific….and it kinda is! before i switched to WordPress, i would go into the HTML of each post and add things into the code that would help build my blog’s SEO……which t took a TON of extra time!! {esp. when the internet was slow. ugh.} and that’s not all i did….. when i uploaded pictures to my computer, i would carefully choose what i named them to help with my SEO….. AND i tried to be very thoughtful about what i named each post…..bascially, i was doing double backflips trying my hardest to build my SEO as much as i could. but doing it the hard way because of the limitations of Blogger. i was spending so much time stressing over SEO, i needed to find something better.

The Solution

the solution was simple: switch to WordPress. in WordPress, i can control exactly what i want my SEO for each post and picture to be as i am writing my post. SO.SIMPLE. it couldn’t be easier! no more “fixing” my HTML code, no more stress over names, no more renaming everything on my blog, and no more worrying about using the wrong word in my post title! YAY! less time spent on SEO, more time to CRAFT! i’m a happy blogger.

Using WordPress

i am still learning WordPress…. and there’s a lot to learn! there seems to be so much you can do with WordPress  more than Blogger. and some things i have found are easier to do. like i think posting is a breeze in WordPress! the widgets, plugins, and appearance things in WP…..well, i’m still figuring them out! but i am very happy that i made the switch. although, i will say that the process of switching was stressful. very stressful.

Linda
Hi! I'm Linda, the craft addict behind Craftaholics Anonymous®, a craft blog. Crafting is cheaper than therapy, right? When I'm not DIYing something, I can be found taxiing around our 4 crazy kids or working out. Or shoe shopping... because you can never have too many shoes! Happy crafting! ♥
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