RE: 75M+ Coming To STEEM Without Changing What They Are Doing???? This Could Be Huge!!!!
WordPress definitely powers many more sites. Almost all stats in expandedrambling's post are absolutely out of date.
The 75 million number, as reported by Forbes, dates from end 2016.
It needs be said though that many WordPress sites have long become much more complicated than a blog, WordPress has long started calling itself a CMS and definitely offers much more versatility, even for non-technical users.
Submitting all content also to the Steem blockchain will definitely hurt the TrustRank of many smaller sites because of especially Steemit's awesome Google rank. While now that may be a valid pro-Steem argument, not every user is satisfied with that, also because many users opt to self-host because they do not want to bother with the possibility of downvotes or limited features.
As such building a site, its functionality and community up over time then only to ruin that because Steemit's SEO outpowers your own site and Google will consider one of both duplicate content is st00pid to the nth.
I agree though that those who are capable of maintaining two profiles, one here on Steemit and their own site, they can be the winner in everything. Especially if they know how to also manage their social profiles and have a plan to market both sites targeted'ly [sic].
I have previously experimented with the different pre-SteemPress options then available but since have refocused my online activities and have now totally switched to blockchain.
Most self-hosted bloggers who will also submit to Steem will not become investors in the platform, but rather be only more noise to the firehose and possibly never even bother growing their Steem profile and thus also SP and curation activities. That makes things only more difficult for those who are intent on building their profile exclusively (and possibly also full-time) on Steem.
The real market to go after tho are the wordpress.com users. They are as many or possibly even more.
PS: check out the WordPress VIP site for some amazing brands who use the service, as well as the WP (self-hosted) showcase.