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Pingdom: WordPress Dominates Top Blogs

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Yesterday, Pingdom reported that 48% of the top blogs in the world use WordPress, which comes as no surprise to ContentRobot.

The five fantastic findings that we liked were:

  1. That was a increase from the 32% that WordPress recorded three years ago
  2. Their findings compared to Technorat’s State of the Blogosphere 2011 report, which stated that 51% of blogs in the world use WordPress
  3. Some companies are still choosing to build their own custom CMS (content management system)
  4. TypePad & Movable

They Always Come Back to WordPress

We just celebrated our sixth birthday last week and we were reminiscing about the evolution of ContentRobot and blogging throughout the years.

Old-time readers may recall that we dabbled in Drupal and other blogging platforms before deciding to focus our expertise on WordPress. Also during that time we’ve seen clients who’ve had sites and blogs done in Flash, PHP, ASP, HTML, Blogger, Movable Type, and more.

For several years, we have been recommending that clients launch blog-powered websites with WordPress. …

Posterous Bloggers Flock to WordPress

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The Next Web reported on Monday that Posterous has been sold to Twitter and as expected, bloggers started to look for another alternative platform. Yesterday, WordPress.com posted that they had seen a 250% increase of imports from Posterous blogs.

If you are looking to join the ranks of hosted WordPress blogs and want to bring your Posterous content with you, it’s quite easy:

Internet Marketing with WordPress: A ContentRobot Review

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Packt Publishing was kind enough to send us another blogging book for review. This time we got an opportunity to check out Internet Marketing with WordPress by David Mercer.

Our first impression was: Wow, this book is short.

Luckily, we believe that “good things come in small packages.” We were not at all disappointed – this tiny tome, packs a powerful punch.

Mercer starts it off by presenting a diagram that showed exactly where blogs and websites fall within the entire …

Best Books for Giving or Receiving for the 2011 Holidays

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It’s no secret that the ContentRobot team loves to read. Each year, we offer our most recommended and favorite books from this year.

Our 2011 list is presented alphabetically by author and includes a variety business, blogging (of course!), and inspirational selections.

We are also pleased to note that some books were, in fact, written by several ContentRobot clients, colleagues, friends, and those we’ve been happy to meet along the way.…