Comments on: What is the best blogging platform?

By: LeChinh.Com

LeChinh.Com — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:28:12 +0000

By: Andrew Rondeau

Andrew Rondeau — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:54:00 +0000

Colin,

Thanks for dropping by and hope to see you again, soon.

I agree, we all make mistakes. My view is if you are serious about making some money via blogging, DON’T make the mistake of going for a free blogging platform, go for your own hosted version. That’s one less mistake to make!

Andrew

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:24:29 +0000

Interesting reading the article and the comments

I initially started on wordpress.com, it gave me the opportunity to learn more about blogging and making mistakes along the way. 18 months later I had found my niche and decided it was time to host on my own domain. Okay so I lost google along the way, but within 3 months it was back, my regular readers followed me as I moved and I left the original blog in place with redirects to the new site.

Now, 11 months into my new site my traffic is steadily increasing with greater exposure, and there is always something to tweak to improve the look or performance.

We all make mistakes and we learn from them, it’s a learning curve that is ever changing, so we do whatever it is that we need to do to maintain visibility and increase visitors

By: Andrew Rondeau

Andrew Rondeau — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:19:45 +0000

Sam,

Thanks for dropping by and I hope to see you again, soon.

You may want to check out this post about WordPress and loading speed:

http://www.webtrafficroi.com/site-speed-will-bee-a-ranking-factor-in-2010/

Andrew

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:19:43 +0000

I have a blog on my own site, and I could not think of doing the free version because getting your own hosted account and domain name is so easy. but my only complaint with wp is how slow it loads. I am on a shared domain site, and as such it runs a little slow, I always wonder if it is wp, because I find others think that their site runs slow. We had to do a work around to get our site to load fast.

ps I found this site from http://ittybiz.com/free-guest-posts/#comment-12867

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Sam
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By: Andrew Rondeau

Andrew Rondeau — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:37:51 +0000

George,

The only thing I would re-iterate is moving from a free blogging platform to your own hosted version can be a problem, so if you THINK you may want to start making a blog income always start with your own hosted blogging platform like WordPress.org.

Andrew

By: George Serradinho

George Serradinho — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:36:38 +0000

A user can maybe start on a free blog (Wordpress or Blogger), but eventually has to move to self hosted if they want to be successful and succeed in life. I’m using WordPress and loving it all the way. It has helped me understand CSS and PHP.
George Serradinho´s last blog ..Save the Environment with Online Leaf WordPress Plugin

By: Ms. Freeman

Ms. Freeman — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:41:28 +0000

Wordpress! Hands down is the best.
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By: Kok Siong Chen

Kok Siong Chen — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:06:54 +0000

As a new blogger, i have chosen Wordpress as my blogging platform. This is the most recommended blogging platform among the bloggers that i know. Until nw, i’m quite satisfied with its functions.
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By: Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:51:14 +0000

The only way to build a successful blog is by creating a self-hosted WordPress blog on your own domain. If our goal is make money from blog then we should nOT go for a free blogging platform.
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By: Lee Ka Hoong

Lee Ka Hoong — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:01:59 +0000

No doubt, I love Wordpress more than others. I’ve been using wordpress for almost 2years and have no problem with this blogging platform. Free blog platform is not the best choice but perhaps beginner can use these to taste the feeling of blogging.

For those who is serious in making money from blogging, a self hosted blog platform is a must.

Well said Andrew!

Cheers,
Lee
Lee Ka Hoong´s last blog ..Make Money Blogging Guide For Beginners

By: chandan@work at home

chandan@work at home — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:23:46 +0000

Yes Andrew wordpress blog is better than blogger blog, when I build my blog on blogger I did not know about it, There are lots of plug in available on wordpress blog, which make wordpress blog more attractive. But blogger blog do not have such features.
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By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:31:46 +0000

It just has to be wordpress. I guess it is probably just because I am super used to it but I am sure some of the othes are good as well. The only platform that I really don’t like is Blogger as it really limits you in a lot of ways. Wordpress just makes it so simple and is also great for SEO once you have all the right plugins etc installed

By: Gerlaine

Gerlaine — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:18:49 +0000

Yes, I have changed from free blog to a hosted blog. There was a lot of copying and pasting. I lost most of my following, because they were only coming to see my blog, because they were big on the blogger or wordpress.com platform. If they had to subscribe through some other reader or email it just wasn’t what they were used to. Had to build a new following pretty much.

I do have some friends online that the transition was much easier for though. I would never go back to free blogging platforms.
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