Wordpress is an Content Management System (CMS) that make the running of a website very easy. Even a novice can take care of their own website without knowing HTML or programming methods. What's even more powerful is that Wordpress will manage many of the promotional needs of a web site with the use of plugins that manage search engine optimization actions to a host of actions that would take thousands of pages to describe.

Wordpress manages content. It can run any type of web site. Originally developed to run a blog site, Wordpress can now run any type of site. The installation process takes only minutes ?the most time consuming part is the upload of the files to the server and then the setup of the MySQL database.

Accomplishing both of those tasks are easy and if you have a problem with a file upload or setup of a MySQL database, just search each of the terms on YouTube and you'll find a wealth of how to information.

Once both of those are done, Wordpress is installed after answering a few questions. There are installation directions at Wordpress called the famous ?5 Minute Installation?. It's easy as that to install it.

Once you start running Wordpress, you'll begin to wonder how you managed without it. I run Wordpress for the Rich Sage and it does wonders to manage content. I'll give you these examples:

As the Rich Sage, I don't worry about search engine optimization. Sure, I've done many things to make sure the search engines take me seriously. However, those were done within the Wordpress admin area where I just had to type and setup things. No need to know programming or html. Wordpress does it.

Everything from the titles of the posts to the categories are optimized for the readers and search engines. That is all done by the theme that I am using on the site. I've discussed more about that below.

As the Rich Sage, I've got to manage everything from comments posted by readers to the several posts that I make per day. All this is again handled by Wordpress. It even has excellent comment spam system called Akismet built into it. Imagine having to read dozens of comments? Imagine having to weed out the spam from the real comments? All this is not easy and takes time. However, with the built in spam guard system, it's very easy for anyone to manage the communication within a web site and it's readers.

Lastly, one of the beautiful benefits of Wordpress is that it allows for us ?programming challenged? users to manage the communications with the outside world. Take for example RSS ?Real Simple Syndication ?which broadcasts each post to the site within minutes of ?going live?. Taking my Rich Sage site as an example, RSS feeds are sent out by Feefburner. My site will even connect to a host of Web 2.0 sites to syndicate RSS feeds and this feature is so popular that 25% of my visitors come from RSS feeds.

In the end Wordpress is a hero to anyone who wants to make money online. It allows us to focus on our content while helping us manage the tasks of running a very popular website.