Do You Need A Hosted Blog?
If you're new you may be asking yourself that question and its been my experience that the answer to that question is YES and NO.
If you're a complete newbie and you're trying to learn the ins and outs of blogging and a Wordpress blog then my advice to you is that its alright to start out with a free Wordpress blog or any free blog for that matter. Below are my experiences and tips with blog creation, free and hosted.
1.At some point you'll want your blog hosted so you can have some control over it.
2. At some point you'll get tired of busting your butt to build somebody elses list.
3. If your Primary business or affiliate doesn't have analytics you'll need your own such as Google analytics and you can't put code on free blogs unless its Blogger.
4. The stats you see in yoour back office are an illusion because that list you think is yours actually belongs to that site.
5. Hosted blogs give you the freedom of having people subscribe to your RSS feed that I spoke about in another post.
6. Personally I like GoDaddy, there are thousands of other hosting programs but I've been with GoDaddy for years and their customer support is top notch.
7. The cost of hosting for your blog is minimal compared to the benefits, you can pay a small monthly fee or yearly.
8. I strongly suggest that complete newbies start with a free Wordpress blog to learn how to navigate it before buying a hosted one. Make all your mistakes on a free blog before you buy one.
9.Don't allow Wordpress to intimidate you, yes it can be complicated when you first look at it, but once you get the basics down pat you're home free.
10. Last but not least, take action because you never know what you can achieve if you don't try, will you make mistakes? You bet you will but its nothing you can't fix.
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Comments (8)
LizFor Loans3
lizforloans
yes, wordpress is very good site for blogging
Philippe Moisan16
Tutorial videos, sci-fi writer
Let's hope they never buy APSense, I don't want to be full of radiation LOL
Paul Hines16
A New Path to Financial Empowerment
I totally agree with you both and besides I don't like the fact that since Google bought Blogger that they don't give any link love to their members. Its like I always say about Google, they buy companies, snatch the talent and nuke the company.
Philippe Moisan16
Tutorial videos, sci-fi writer
What is strange is that few people, including me, think of going to YouTube to check for tutorials about WordPress, or about any topic for that matter. There are countless videos that explain WordPress.
Laura Newton9
The Water Filter Lady
Great article Paul! I first started blogging on google's blogger. It was easy and very user friendly. Until they banned one of my blogs!!! I too was afraid of wordpress, it seemed to complicated and hard to use, but I took that leap and moved my remaining blogger blog to wordpress and I couldnt be happier! My traffic, sales and seo ranking has actually trippled since I moved!! I no longer recommend blogger and suggest if your planning on blogging, jump head first into a hosted wordpress blog. Yo
Paul Hines16
A New Path to Financial Empowerment
Thank you both for reading and commenting.
Chukwuekwu Okonta12
Forensic accountant
Making mistakes is common, yes when mistakes are made when using yoursite.blogspot dot com or yoursite.wordpress dot com it is easier and better than when using own hosting, paul i must say you did a nice post.
Don Dousharm10
Entrepreneur, Publisher
Hi Paul, I think you are spot on with this one. I remember when I first started with blogging, everyone said Wordpress so I signed up with a free account. I didn't understand it at all and the help file might as well have been in Greek because I couldn't understand that either. For those just starting out, I would suggest that you play around with it and you will figure it out. Ask lots of questions from your friends because once you learn it you will find it to be much simpler than it looks. Th