Comments on: Self Hosting: What’s Your Hurry?

By: timethief

timethief — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:03:51 +0000

Let me explain this a bit more clearly. Pagerank is not transferable from the .wordpress.com subdomain URLs to the domain URLs. Technically the new domain starts from “unranked”. After purchasing domain mapping it will take about 4 months for your content to be re-indexed by the search engines and, all things being equal, the pagerank will end up where it was at previously.

Purchasing domain mapping means visitors clicking any URLs that have already been indexed will be seamlessly transfered to the same content under the domain URL. That means any visitor using the search terms your blog is already appearing in the SERPs (search engine page results) for will be seamlessly redirected to the same content, and that redirection continues for as long as you renew your domain name and domain mapping.

To eliminate ads on your blog entirely, you can purchase the No-Ads Upgrade. The upgrade is especially attractive and useful to business blogs in order to eliminate any possibility of competitors’ ads displaying on their domains. No Ads is a paid upgrade that costs $29.97 per blog, per year.

You can move your content later into a wordpress.org install. If you’ve registered your domain through WordPress.com and later want it to point to a blog or website hosted elsewhere then you can do this by updating the nameservers. Feedburner subscribers aren’t lost. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/11/06/setting-up-a-self-hosted-wordpress-org-install/

P.S. The best time to purchase a domain name and domain mapping for your blog is right from the get go.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:09:18 +0000

Wow. What a wealth of information. The comments I’ve read are just as valuable as the article (if not more so.)

Thought I’m late to the conversation, I wanted to say I’ve learned quite a bit and am now seriously pondering the fate of my tiny little blog. I did not realize that there might be ads outside of my mobile site (which I have seen on my phone), and I am disheartened by how I’ll need to put another year of work into getting a solid Google ranking if I move to WordPress.org. On the flip side, I’m wondering if it is better to take the hit now while I have fewer subscribers, or if I should wait. I am prepared to pay for a good template and because my husband is an IT guy and we host another website and have server space, I am not afraid of the more tech-y side of hosting my own. My main concern is losing the Feedburner RSS subscribers and Google rankings for my highest search terms.

Lots to think about. Thank you!

By: timethief

timethief — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:10:15 +0000

I’m so happy to hear you find useful information in my blog. Thanks for the positive feedback. Please see here for tips on increasing traffic > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/popular-posts/ scroll down the page to “Blog Promotion” locate the titles. :)

By: thefrontwindow

thefrontwindow — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:32:01 +0000

This has been a very informative blog and subsequent discussion. I began blogging because I love to write and this forces me to keep writing (which is what writers should do!).
I wonder what your advice would be to increase traffic on one’s blog? I currently post to Facebook and get a few referrals from there.

By: Moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org « one cool site

Moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org « one cool site — Sun, 22 May 2011 03:01:53 +0000

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By: timethief

timethief — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:40:36 +0000

@Val
I had a wordpress.org install but I chose to move my blog back to wordpress.com after a couple of years of self-hosting. If you are an experienced WordPress.com software user, and have the skill sets required to set up and manage your own self hosted WordPress.org install then the instructions for making the move are easy to follow. But if you are not skilled at WordPress.com blogging, and also lack the skill sets required to self host your own WordPress.org install then acquiring those skills first is recommended. You will be responsible for all upgrades, installations, backups and troubleshooting. If you install a theme or a plugin that negatively affects your blog, then you have to figure out what went wrong and fix it.

Here at wordpress.com we don’t have to worry about any of that — we are free to blog while Staff takes care of the rest. I found that my blog did not retain the traffic it once had after moving it and decided to move it back to free hosting.

Thanks so much for subscribing to my blog. :)