Intro To WordPress.com Blogging: A Beginners Video

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Last Updated March 31, 2009

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halo wordpress Intro To WordPress.com Blogging: A Beginners Video Last week I did a story on Wordpress blogging and how easy it is to get started. I told you to ‘>STOP wasting your $$$ on developers (at least till you know what you are doing). I love Wordpress platform because of all the cool things you can do with it and too it.

Often people ask about the differences between a FREE Wordpress.com and a HOSTED WordPress.org site. My theory is this, ask yourself these 3 easy questions…

1) Do really ‘need’ to SELL stuff on my blog?

2) Do I really ‘need’ to monetize my blog with advertising?

3) Have I ever blogged before?

If you answered NO to #3 then I would suggest you go to WordPress.com first and set up a blog. The reason is, for you to do #1 or #2 (sell or monetize) you first MUST have successfully done #3. Nope I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but contrary to popular thought, blogging is NOT a build it and watch the $$$ roll in kinda thing!

You MUST have an audience that is interested. And that audience wants good content. So start with the content creation FIRST. Learn that part of blogging and THEN move over to the other phases. With Wordpress.com you can STILL write stories and demo your products, you can STILL tell readers about your web store. And you can still build your rabid viewership while you learn the ropes for FREE. Then when you got your balance right, you can remove the “training wheels” and graduate to a hosted Wordpress.org blog.

YES, everything you do on the .com Wordpress can easily be moved when you want to create a .org blog. This is EXACTLY what I did with ColderICE.com. This blog started out as a FREE Wordpress.com blog! Then once I got my feet wet, learned how to use Wordpress and Plug-ins and stuff, we moved it to its own server.

So how much did that cost to get started and learn WordPress? NOTHING, it was FREE and EASY…So get started TODAY and put up your blog on one of the best platforms out there. Hey, when you do, come back here and add your link in the comments so I can visit YOUR NEW Blog!!!

Have fun and watch the video…

Cliff Aliperti

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?

John

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

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

Cliff Aliperti

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

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