So Who Wins: beBee or WordPress?

Today, blogging is a major component of content marketing — a practice over 90% of marketers now leverage to raise brand awareness and promote products and services. The stature of web authoring is growing both personally and professionally. 

So we can take a good look at the battle raging between WordPress, the market share hogging blogging solution come CMS, and beBee, the young blogging platform come social network.

Thanks to the dominance of WordPress over the last years, the blogging platform market has been one of the most stable in the content management system world. Rivals such as Blogger and others all provided some level of innovation — but none were able to topple the behemoth that is WordPress. 

However, today, beBee’s growing presence is a thorn in the side of WordPress. Not because it can do everything WordPress can, but because it disrupts the way people publish and consume quality content.   

With numbers in mind, it’s fair to say that WordPress sets the standard for blogging platforms everywhere.  

beBee Producer

Just like with WordPress, you can sign up and begin publishing immediately — but instead of your articles sitting idle while you work to bring in traffic, all beBee content is distrubuted through hives - affinity groups on beBee. Each blog post is searchable, shareable  and acts as a gateway to your beBee profile, which other users can follow.

“There are many reasons why you can decide to move to beBee. It has built in distribution, a global content delivery network for assets, free hosting, free SSL and a great mobile experience — Juan Imaz

There are no advanced settings for SEO, sharing, or anything more involved. This is not an issue; the main focus of beBee Producer is writing. beBee's view is that content should be quality content because it’s good, not because it contains the right keyword density. Let beBee team work for you.

EASE OF USE

When it comes to how easy to use either of these platforms is, beBee comes out on top for the most part. WordPress is a behemoth, and it shows. Countless post options, editor buttons, site settings, plugins, themes and all the bells and whistles give you a lot of power but at the cost of usability.

When Does It Make Sense to Use Self-hosted WordPress?

• You want to build a personalized and modifiable brand on your terms
• You want total control over your design
• Monetization is mandatory to you (despite of our beBee plans to monetize your traffic)
• You want a customizable blogging interface.

So Who Wins: beBee or WordPress?

WordPress and beBee are two blogging platforms that possess similar functions, but are for two very different people.

To be able to decide which one you want, I think you should consider the following:

• WordPress allows you to do much more than just writing.
  
• beBee feels like a professional community.