New Blogers, what platform should you select, Wordpress.com or Woedpress.org?

If you are on online business like me, then you must have an

individual blog.

I will not get into details about the benefits of a personal blog, becausethis articles objective is to help you select

the proper platform for your blog, for those of you who don't have

by now one.

There are two types of platforms to choose from.

The first is a hosted blog platform, with Wordpress.com and Blogger.com being

the most used ones.

Hosted blog platforms are free for the users, and you can build an account

following the simple information literally in minutes.

You will be online, usually with a donain name: username.wordpress.com.

So the benefits for Wordpress.com are that is free to use and simple

to createyour blog.

The bad news for marketeers is that you have limitations.You are under control

of Wordpress, since you don't have the hosting of your blog. You can't vary

anything, install your own plug-ins. And the worst fragment for marketeers

is that wordpress.com does not permit you to put advertisments of any kind.



On the other hand, Wordpress.org is a platform that you must build your self.

You must buy your own domain name (about $10-15 a year i.e. GoDaddy)

and get your hosting account ( about $7-12 per month i.e. HostGator).

That provides you maximum flexibility and customization. You can advertise,

change anything you want and install any plug-in you want.

So,at Wordpress.org you have to pay for a domain name and hosting. That's the

one disadvantage. The other is that is a little bit more confuse to create your

account. You need to have a number of technical skills, but you can easily find them at Wordpress help center.



So, which is the best solution for you?



That is something you must decide according to your long-term goals of your

blog. if you want a blog for your personal purpose, to reveal your opinion

with your friends and family, a free blog at Wordpress.com will be fine.

But if you want to manage your blog for business purposes, having to advertise

your opportunities and products, then a paying for hosting blog like

Wordpress.org should be your preference,like nearly everyone business owners and marketeers.



My final advise to you, if you are not sure which kind of platform should you

use, is to start a free practising blog at Wordpress.com first. That's a great

technique to get on your way learning how to use Wordpress. Start playing around with features

and testing what you find there. You can start a blog at any theme you enjoy.

For example, even if you are intowork from home, you can start your

practice blog about a hobby you have, lets say gardening, purely to learn how to blog and about the Wordpress software.

After a while, it will be easier for you to choose if you want to stay at

Wordpress.com or switch to Wordpress.org.



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internet marketing Christos Christou is an Internet Marketing Specialist, who has helped many people achived their goals on their online business