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ColderICE eCommerce Blog: Intro To WordPress.com Blogging: A Beginners Video

  • Cliff Aliperti · 9 months ago
    Wow, John, did you take voice lessons :)

    Personally I think you're better off with hosting the .org yourself from the start to keep any SEO juice you build up along the way.

    Costs $4/month to host w/GoDaddy (just be sure to choose Linux hosting and not Windows) and they have the one-click C-panel install from there.

    What are you out, $12 or so if you abandon blogging after 3 months, or that $12 gives you a headstart w/Google. No?

    Thanks, Cliff
  • Cliff Aliperti · 9 months ago
    I should add, at the same time, what I absolutely agree wtih your pointing out is that the barrier to entry can be $0 if that's the way you want to go. And $0 is pretty affordable!

    Thanks again, Cliff
  • John · 9 months ago
    Actually Cliff, the SEO boost is MUCH greater on the FREE version of Wordpress.com as they DRIVE traffic to your site inside thier own systems.

    Wordpress.com is a community blogging site and your post will be shown on other sites that are hosted by Wordpress.com, so the traffic build is HUGE.

    Once you move to your own hosted site, then you are personally responsible for driving traffic and as such you will NOT get nearly as many viewers. So there are many conditions that must be factored in when deciding between hosted vs self-hosted.

    I plan on fleshing that comparison out at a later time for a new post. As a matter of fact, Scott Pooler hosts his site (http://allbusinessauctions.wordpress.com/) on WORDPRESS' free .com for this very reason.

    There is a bump in traffic, ranking, and list positioning you get simply because you are a Wordpress.com blog. That is ACTUALLY why the do not want advertising on those blogs. If they were full of ads, then Google would not rank them so high. Just an FYI...

    The one caveat to "keeping juice" can be in owning the URL and using a redirect to the FREE site which you can do with a .com blog site. That too is what I did with ColderICE.com, I owned the URL so when I did move it to a .org site, that URL had some history too it. Google CONSTANTLY updates site rankings so nothing is really sacred.

    John
  • Cliff Aliperti · 9 months ago
    That's mostly what I meant...making the move. I mean to do it right, wouldn't you have to do 301 redirects for every page of the site to do it right?