I've spent the last two weeks doing a lot of research on this topic for a couple reasons, not the least of which are: 1. An established blog needs to keep its google 'juice' and page rank. 2. Us bloggers, like to keep our readers, not confuse them with new addresses and redirects and warning pages. 3. We also like to keep our FEED readers/ subscribers. 4. We also like to have a professional top level domain (myblog.com or myblog.net) For Blogger: The ONLY way, and I stress - only - way to keep your google ranking with a move away from wordpress is to publish to a "custom domain" … [Read more...]
Are you a control freak?
July 29, 2008
I do quite a few installations for Wordpress.com blogs and often times, I've noticed that they pay for both domain mapping and the custom CSS ability. That amount adds up to $30 a year (roughly) and for that they can basically make it LOOK like their site is on it's own domain and modify the look of thier blog. What I don't understand is WHY they would choose this platform and pay $30 a year when they could spend the same amount and have a self-hosted WordPress blog? For me, it doesn't make sense. The backend of Wordpress is the same whether you're on self-hosted or Wordpress.com, so it's … [Read more...]
