Comments on: Bloggers Get Your Own Domain http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/08/bloggers-get-your-own-domain/ WordPress blogging tips, tools & tutorials Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:27:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: OMG! My Domain Name Expired | one cool site http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/08/bloggers-get-your-own-domain/#comment-34292 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:53:42 +0000 http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/?p=5684#comment-34292 [...] posts purchasing your own domain name and/or How and why to get your own domain. Share this:tweetMoreDiggEmailLike this:LikeBe the first [...]

]]> By: Started our book! | Love versus Goliath : A Partner Visa Journey http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/08/bloggers-get-your-own-domain/#comment-24334 Sun, 22 May 2011 11:32:17 +0000 http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/?p=5684#comment-24334 [...] other thing I decided to do was take Timethief’s advice: Bloggers get your own domain.  I’m still trying to figure out the technicalities of what happens behind the scenes with [...]

]]> By: timethief http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/08/bloggers-get-your-own-domain/#comment-14947 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:31:36 +0000 http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/?p=5684#comment-14947 hello there. Thanks for letting me know you find value in my blog. I’m not a professional blogger and I don’t provide the service of visiting and analyzing my reader’s blogs. You have said:

“I have noticed that search engines are very fast to grab post of wordpress hosted blogs but not for self hosted wordpress blogs. ”

Yes, I have noted this as well. Moreover, the wordpress.com site has such excellent SEO and pageranking that this is not surprising. IMHO it’s the best free web host one can get.

It’s also my opinion that bloggers who rush off to get self hosted wordpress.ORG domains merely to have plugins and different themes are missing the fact that readers come to blogs to read the content in blog posts. if you blog for your readers then I advise you don;t get caught up into leaving wordpress.com for bells and whistles that reader’s could care less about.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/13/self-hosting-whats-your-hurry/

There are now 100 themes we can choose from at wordpress.com and all are customizable to some degree or another. The newest themes are highly customizable and feature rich. In addition there are now custom menus and custom menu widgets that we can use.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/06/17/custom-menus-arrive-at-wordpress-com/

Also note that WordPress.com has been running on version 3.0 since the end of May. Yes that date prefates the release of 3.0 through wordpress.ORG. Here Staff are continually deploying version updates and new features. Also many features we have are exclusive to wordpress.com and those that aren’t are released to wordpress.ORG bloggers after they have been released at wordpress.COM. So the presumption that wordpress.org bloggers are ahead of us is absolutely ridiculous but the myth still persists.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/05/19/optimize-for-perfection-optimize-for-speed/

Aside from the contents of my blog, this is as much help as I can give you. Going beyond this would require a consultation fee and me making you a client and I’m not open to that.

Best wishes with your blog. :)

]]> By: prashish http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/08/bloggers-get-your-own-domain/#comment-14936 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:18:05 +0000 http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/?p=5684#comment-14936 Hello,
I have been reading your blog posts a lot these days. They have been very very helpful and most of them worked like a charm for me. I have a question and I needed some professional’s advice. You would be the best person of my query.

I have been running a wordpress.com blog for about seven months now and I simply love it. But the thing I hate about wordpress.com hosted blogs is that I cannot use a custom theme and make use of many many other plugins which can make my blog look as I desire. I even got a .com.np (its free here) but I fear shifting to it. I have noticed that search engines are very fast to grab post of wordpress hosted blogs but not for self hosted wordpress blogs. I got a free space from 0fees.net and I have linked it to my new domain. I even tested out a sample theme in my new blog but google doesnt seem to find it. I feel very secure with .wordpress.com as search engine spiders bot easily detect them and my posts are easily in the first page. I doubt it would happen the same with my new “free space” self hosted blog. Also I’m a learning webdesigner and can code websites, I want to personalize my blog, which I cannot do with my wordpress.com blog. Can you please suggest me what to do.
Waiting for your reply.
prashish

]]> By: timethief http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/08/bloggers-get-your-own-domain/#comment-11422 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:26:38 +0000 http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/?p=5684#comment-11422 @askthecouncil
The easiest part of making the move is the last step which is the export of your content out of your wordpress.com blog and the import into your wordpress.org blog.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#toc
http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/import-export-links/

]]> By: askthecouncil http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/08/bloggers-get-your-own-domain/#comment-11419 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:36:54 +0000 http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/?p=5684#comment-11419 Thanks for the support link about global tags and your easy to understand explanation of tags and categories.

Your comment about the blog traffic that’s generated by being part of wordpress.com’s global tagging system is the only mention I’ve come across in my reading on wordpress.com vs wordpress.org. It seems like an important point in the .com vs .org debate if traffic is a high priority.

I just read your Self-Hosting: What’s Your Hurry? post and I’m currently leaning in the direction of a wordpress.com site with my own domain name. I’m attracted to the bells and whistles (themes, plug-ins, other customization) that .org self-hosting offers, but I agree with you about the importance of developing good basic blogging skills and it’s easy to imagine that self-hosting will divert time and attention from a focus on the fundamentals.

I’d like to learn more about what happens to a wordpress.com site with with a mysite.com url when the switch is made to a self-hosted wordpress.org site. Is there an easy export/import of the .com’s archived contents into the new .org site?

I hope you sleep peacefully and have beautiful dreams inspired by the heartfelt help I imagine many have received from your words.

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