So I finally decided to switch my website over to WordPress, a content management system specifically built for blogging.  Until now I had been updating and editing my website with text editors and uploading files manually, which took too long, so I rarely did it.  In order to rank well with search engines, websites must provide useful information and content must be added often.  This was difficult with the old method and it seems that WordPress is the new normal CMS for both personal and many business for both John Doe down the street and sites like About.com and the New York Times.