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Alvin Phang
Nov 7th, 2007
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This article is written for only 1 reason and it is to alert those people who are currently using FREE stuff like blogger or xanga or many others out there.
Just remember one thing, anything given for FREE most cases there is a reason for it =) I tried using blogger myself and I end up using a hosted Wordpress and I never once look back at using others.
Just in case you are not aware what Wordpress is, it’s actually a free open source software at www.Wordpress.com which you can download and install to create your blogs. However the one that I am using is what we call a server based Wordpress which is much much more powerful then the online free version.
Here Are 10 Reasons Why You Must Use A Hosted Wordpress
1. There Are 3,000 Or More FREE Templates Themes You Can Use For Your Wordpress Blog
In fact I think it growing everyday with more and more FREE Template Themes online everyday, two of my favorite resources are Theme Viewer & Wordpress Themes.
In those two website along you can find virtually hundreds of different themes and designs all for FREE and no other platform as that much resources compared to Wordpress =)
2. Over Hundreds of FREE Plug ins For Your Hosted Wordpress
Wordpress Plugin Database is one such site where you can find tons and tons of interesting plug ins to help enhance your blogging experience with Wordpress.
Some of them are so powerful that you can actually create a whole shopping cart or entertainment blog just by using the free plug ins available.
3. Wordpress Blogs Has Powerful Categories
Blogger also has something similar called labels but it’s not as powerful as categories in Wordpress, because you can actually use these categories to do your search engine optimization to get rank high in search engines
4. User Friendly & Easy To Use
If you have tried Wordpress or just sign up for hosting and install it, you will realized it is really simple to use. All you need in terms of knowledge is the know hows of using Microsoft Words and Internet Browsers and you can actually start using or posting stuff on your blog quite easily!
5. 90% Of All Popular Blogs Use A Hosted Wordpress As Their Platform
If you go to Technorati.com which they have over 107 Million blogs to date, most of them are using Wordpress and the reason is because it’s very strong and expandable with hundreds of resources you can find online.
6. Integrated Password Protection For Valuable Information
If you have a selected pool of customers or readers you like to give them special information, you can actually password protect the post to prevent outsiders from accessing your information.
7. Seamless Integration With Videos And Audio
You can easily add videos from YouTube and Audio files too with the help of plug ins and this will allow your readers to have more powerful content for your sites.
8. Encourage Interaction With Your Readers
Because a blog naturally does one thing with readers and that is to interact with them in terms of getting feedback with comments you see below. This is really important as with interaction with your readers, it allows you to be even closer to your readers and once you have built a strong relationship with your readers the chances they would buy something would be higher too.
9. Widget Ready Themes
Hate designing? Well with simple widget ready themes, you can simply drag and drop menus around the blog quite easily by just dragging and dropping around the design. One such theme that I created with those features, you can actually download it for free at this link here
10. Hosted Wordpress Is FREE To Install!
Last but not least, the hosted Wordpress is FREE to install and use as long as you have a domain name and hosted server you can host a Wordpress for FREE and it only takes about 3 minutes to setup one.
Summary
If you are looking for a good host to host your wordpress I would highly recommend you use this host. It only cost US$7.95 per month and they give you 600GB of SPACE and 6,000 Bandwidth which is ALOT!
Once you do that just go into your hosting account and install the Wordpress to get started with your blog =) And if you need more details or step by step details how to start a blog just click here to get the guide book. Do leave your feedback below if you learn something from this article.
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Yes Alvin you are right. Hosting our own wordpress is much better than using the free blog. You have pointed out 10 true reasons. I myself learn how to do host my 2nd website was by just reading your atomic blogging (my 1st website http://www.eiposs.com was setup by you). But until now I still cant use the atomic blogging plugin because whenever I click on the publish button, the page showed error. I did send an email with screenshot of this problem. Have you got the solution for me?
It happened before for my eiposs.com but you managed to fix it. I hope you can help asap. Thanks Alvin.
I am not sure I got it so far.. when it sent it? as I have 500 new emails to read everyday and lots of answer =)
Great post as usual Alvin, will be sharing this for sure. You are really good at responding to your blog comments but please can you help me out here? I have two problems. First one, I can seem to get my comments area to show like yours or like on other blogs. I mean if someone wanted to leave a comment on my blog, it doesn’t show them, the name, email and URL like yours do. I downloaded and activated the subscribe-2-comment plugin but am I still missing something?
Second question I also downloaded and activated Ultimate-Tag-Warrior but when I’m trying to make a new post and publish it, it doesn’t show the keywords for the blog post, HELP ANYONE!!
I think what you are trying to find is this special comment box.. I seriously cannot remember what this file name is.. but it’s not a plug in.. it’s a special comment.php file which over writes your current wordpress to have this reply feature =)
You may want to wait for Atomic Blogging Theme Version 3 when it’s out =) Currently it does not support it…
Wah 500? I just sent you the email. Please help. Thanks Alvin.
No promise I can see it now.. because I got my own students to take care first =) hope you understand… I wont be reading my email for the next 2 days on a major project…
Replied your email.. hope that helps =)
Hi Alvin,
Thanks so much for your help. It works. haha. Your support is the best!!
Thank Roy, if you can do me a favor can you drop me a testimonial for my product =)
Ok sure Alvin. I’d love to write a testimonial of your product? Where should I submit it? or just send to your email??
Yep just sent it to my email =)
Alvin,
I think you need to employ someone to read your email liao lah. Need to expand your business Bro!
Haha
John
http://www.SBOResaleTreasures.com
very good stuff alvin and you definitely make some good points. keep up the good work!
Hi Alvin -
Just discovered your site using “Sphere”, and enjoyed this post. We use WordPress at http://www.WebHelperMagazine.com, and have a category for help using it. It is even being used for more than “blogs”, as you can see in the article, “Where’s the Blog in WordPress.”
I think your point about seamless integration of video and audio is excellent — that are of Social Content is growing rapidly.
Best regards -
Scott
I have just purchased your atomic blogging software and I have found it to be quite a help in setting up a hosted wordpress blog.
As for making money yet, I don’t know when that will happen as I had to start from scratch again as I used to be with wordpress.com.
Hosted wordpress has way more features and I am not going back.
Thanks!
Very useful. I have changed over to a hosted wordpress blog.
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