I am a little new to this so please bear with me. If I use Wordpress to do a blog, is it designed so that incoming links can give you reasonable rankings?
Depends on the version but generally it's pretty good, just ensure you have permalinks enabled and look at what seo tweaks there are currently available.
No extra weight to inbound links is given because you use wordpress. In terms of architecture you can set it up to appear static which is better than using query strings in the URL
Ok, so you would say this is pretty much as good as I will get regarding blogging software? Or should I really be looking at something else?
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I am not an expert on that but I think that blogging software wont make any difference on your ranking. The best way to improve your ranking is posting a lot of quality contents.
For me it is better you use both wordpress and blogger first so that you can feel what to use that best sooth you. then try to look for more online tutorials that will guide you to understand the process. for blogger you can create it free and can be indexed by goggle as long as your post were informative and good. you can use wordpress too for a costumized way like having your own domain and hosting. but first you have to look for video tutorials on youtube or any other online tutorials you can find by searching on the search engine of goggle and yahoo...
i personally prefer wordpress. the community is great and there are a lot of plugins you can use so you don't need to know programming to have an almost customized look for your blog
There is no doubt that wordpress is the best blogging platform with the great plugins and customization capability. Your blog will really rock with the wordpress...