Writing blogs for Wordpress.com can give you a great advantage as a Web promoter. I have seen blog posts pick up ranking in weeks that other sites don't pick up in years of hard work. This is due to the well designed structure and community support that exists within the Wordpress conglomerate of blogs and posts.
 
Links coming from Wordpress are highly recognized by Google and usually granted on a next-update basis. Posts circulate through many categories and that already have ranking and tons of important backlinks which make each of these pages its own authority. This can subsequently pass down to your websie as a valuable link.
 
There are people who fully dedicate themselves to write Wordpress blogs and create great websites out of blog posts. Each of these posts are individual to each other but have great link support from within its own blogs and other blogs within the Wordpress community. Many even do affiliated marketing using the traffic that can be picked up by a wordpress blog.
 
To maximize the power of your blog with Wordpress follow this:

• Create a topical or niche driven blog using Wordpress
   
• Select a template that allows you to clearly show the contrast between text and links, this will allow people to see your recommendations and will actually give you traffic
   
• Write several posts which are interesting in nature and offer something attractive to rea
   
• For each post, ensure to use as many relevant "Tags" as possible, this will increase your link weight by showing in diferent browsing categories crawled by search engines
   
• Add a Blogroll and link to all the pages you wish to link to. Blogroll will show on every post, multiplying the amount of links you add based on a per-post basis
   
• Bookmark each one of your posts using Digg, Reddit, Furl and Delicious, this will allow your blog posts to be indexed even quicker
   
• Comment on other people's posts, this will give you presence and will let others visit your blogs to pay back for your time commenting on theirs. The more your blog posts circulates the more traffic you will get. The more time people spend on your blog, the more Search Engines will think it is important, the more ranking they will assign to you.

Surely Wordpress has amazed me with the well structured community suporting the blog posts. And it has proven to be a great asset to the Webmaster and SEO community. I have not seen the effects of having a Wordpress blog replicated by any other blog site even by a remote mile. Wordpress has authority, take advantage of it.