As we have covered in recent posts, the blog market has been one of the major success stories of the internet over the last 10 years. While the amount of blogs continues to grow on a daily basis, it seems that Word Press have forged ahead in the popularity rankings for blog management systems. But why?

If you check a coupe of blogs on the internet, one is probably going to be powered by Word Press, and while their format and look can be widely different, the feel and reliability are always there. Word Press is an open source system which means that any developer, coder or webmaster can write and sell their own code to work with Word Press.

This in itself has created a sub-market which is worth billions of dollars, which include themes, and widgets of all kinds to give your site something a little different to the norm. If you go to Google and type “Word Press Themes” you will see exactly what we mean. Easy to install, easy to adapt and amend, Word Press has quickly grown into the leading blog management system.

While there are many other blog content systems out there, they have yet to really catch the imagination of the webmaster community. A little like Facebook, the decision to go open source has been the difference between a blog system also ran and the real deal, although nothing ever stays still for too long on the internet.

However, if Word Press continues to develop in the future then there is no reason why it cannot cement its position at the top table, but it will not be easy to maintain top stop with the likes of Google targeting your market!