Blog Hosting Basics For Network Marketing Newcomers
When you first start out online you might come across blog host platforms like Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, or even LiveJournal.com. But, should you use them?
In my opinion, “Not in a million years.” Why not?
Because It’s like building a house on a piece of property you don’t own!
I mean, would you spend seven years building your family home on a plot of land you didn’t own? Would you till the fields, fertilize the ground, sow the seeds, cultivate the crops, and harvest the yield in somebody else’s fields?
No, I would venture to say, “You would not.”
So why do business owners insist on using free domain names and hosting sites at all? Is the lure of “FREE” too strong to ignore? Apparently so.
But there’s a big price to “FREE”.
Your online business can disappear overnight – on a whim.
It’s like the person who goes on vacation and comes back to a pile of rubble, a wrecking ball, and a bulldozer. Because they built their home on property they didn’t own. And it’s not a disaster.
Because, if you’re using a free hosting or blogging account you’re not in business – you’re in gambling!
Especially in the MLM, Network Marketing industry.
You already know that some people are “out to get you.”
You know, all it takes is one pencil pushing self-righteous booger with a grudge against humanity to change one tiny little rule…
And it’s “game over” for your blog…
The years of blog posts, the pictures, the videos – gone.
Gosh, some companies change their policies like people change underwear. They change one sentence in their 4000 word agreement and thousands of businesses are suddenly flushed down the drain. Don’t let it happen to you.
Not to mention the simple fact that nobody takes a business seriously unless they take themselves seriously.
If you won’t spend $7 bucks on webhosting…
If you won’t invest in your own business then why should anybody else?
It’s something to think about…
So, take control of your life and your business…
If you’re already using free services then I strongly urge you to take control of your business…
- Buy your own domain names…
- Pay for your own webhosting…
- Install Wordpress for yourself…
Yes, it’s a learning curve.
It’s not the easiest thing to do if you’re not a “tech guy” or “tech girl”. But, it’s probably the easiest part of running a business with online.
It’s the essential first step…
And you can do it…
I believe in you.
Now, maybe you’re an “old pro” at this blogging stuff?
If you’re an experienced Network Marketer with an online presence then your followers on Twitter might enjoy this post.
They’re not all as advanced as you are. 
And I know sometimes we’re talking “over their heads”.
If you think this post would help them out then please Retweet it.
Thank you,
-Jason The “Better Networker”
-The Jason Better Blog
101 Comments
Josh Garcia on April 15th, 2010
Hey Jason,
I thank everyone on TF2 who got me started on the right track. Not to mentioned, you have total control. 
Another great point that a lot of the hosting services have awesome tech folks to help out with your issues or question. So for sure, get your own hosting!
Chat with you later…
Josh
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April 15th, 2010 at 10:35 am
TF2 is definitely the place to start.
I know a lot of readers like you have been through the product. Sometimes
I just worry that I’m getting too far ahead of the crowd though.
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Wayne Vassell on April 15th, 2010
Great Advice J,
I always go for my own domain, the cost is so cheap these days it makes no sense building your site and giving all that authority to another persons domain.
Man you can even get a domain starting from $0.99 if you want to keep the cost down!
Great post.
Wayne Vassell, signing out…
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April 15th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
I know, it’s crazy cheap…
And it’s beyond me why anybody would not want to buy their own domain name.
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Susan Redmon on April 15th, 2010
Hi Jason, good advice!
I started out using a “free” option … just didn’t know any better. Now thanks to TF2, I get it. Switched to WP … have not regretted the change and have really enjoyed the learning experience.
Have a great day ~ Susan
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April 15th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
I think most people start with that.
It’s hard to know what to do at first.
Now, you’re all set.
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David Wright on April 15th, 2010
Hi Jason,
I’m planning on starting my blog and I already made these decisions based on advice from Mike Dillard’s courses. None the less, thanks for the simple summary of the essential “building blocks”.
Looking forward to having a blog as great as yours.
Have a wonderful day.
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Melodie Kantner on April 15th, 2010
Ahh. You take me down memory lane. Years ago when I started with my business, I had a free website set up. I think it was called MyFreeOffice. I worked so hard on my site and it was up for quite a while then all of a sudden, the whole domain disappeared. No warning!!! Just all that work disappeared. I learned my lesson and started hosting my own domain. That wasn’t a blog but it is the same principal.
Another great post!
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April 15th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
OUCH!
This seems to be a common theme when it comes to these free websites/blogs.
I was lucky.
Never had to go through that.
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Ty Tribble on April 15th, 2010
Great post, Jason.
It’s all about control. I know good YouTube marketers who have had their accounts closed…great PPC marketers who Google slammed the door in their face…Facebooks and Twitter accounts vanish, but if you carve out your own home base online with a self-hosted Wordpress Blog, it’s yours forever.
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April 15th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Hey Ty,
Actually I was just over at your blog a few minutes ago when the phone rang!
Keeping busy, I can tell you that.
I’ve heard the same horror stories about youtube and Google. It’s a scary thought.
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Denise Rowe on April 15th, 2010
Having your own WordPress blog hosted elsewhere is definitely the way to go. Your credibility is enhanced by having your own domain name in WP
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April 15th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Good point.
It’s hard to trust somebody when you know they don’t trust themselves enough to buy their own domain name.
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David Wilcoxson on April 15th, 2010
I agree Jason! A domain name and web site is like owning real estate on the Internet highway. And you want full control of that property for security and for SEO.
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April 15th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Yeah totally.
And it seems like some people are building their castles out of sand…
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Keywords Finder on April 15th, 2010
Well said Jason! Some friends had their ‘free’ Wordpress accounts closed overnight and it’s costing them big time!
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April 15th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Another “ouch” story…
Man, that could close a whole business.
I feel for them.
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Lori Winslow on April 15th, 2010
I had started with the free option and then I read about the dangers of this path and started my own hosted blog. If you are a member of Renegade Professional there is great step by step training there to set up your blog and your hosting.
I am still in the process of building mine up, but at least I am starting with a solid foundation.
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April 15th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
No need to rush, as long as you’re building your business on bedrock instead of sand. 
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Jenny on April 15th, 2010
Hi Jason!
Thank you so much for posting this. I was contemplating getting rid of my hosting and go to the ‘free’ blogs to cut down on my expenses but this is an answer that I was waiting for! Thanks so much!!!
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April 15th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
Gosh,
I’m glad I posted this.
You’re the exact person I wrote this for.
I wince just thinking about how dangerous it is to use the free hosting with some blogging platforms.
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Hani on April 15th, 2010
Amen Jason!
The same applies to online video…don’t just post your videos on YouTube and other free sharing sites. Your account may be deleted without warning and all your videos will be lost. (which has been happening to a lot of Internet markets lately I hear).
I highly recommend you log in to your YouTube account and download your OWN videos as a backup. (You can only download 2 or 3 per day, so start today)
This way in the event that your YouTube account gets deleted, you can then “self-host” your videos (Amazon S3 is an way to do this) and have full control over them.
If anyone is interested in a video on how to download and self-host your videos let me know and I can take the time and create one for you guys.
Keep your blog and videos safe everyone
Hani
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April 15th, 2010 at 11:54 am
Hani I’d be interested in your video tutorial. I’m just getting into blogging and all of this information is extremely helpful. I’d rather learn from the best up front and not have to duplicate efforts because I went down the wrong path. Thanks again.
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April 15th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Hey Hani!
Long time…
Fantastic tip here.
It’s the same as a personal computer.
We all need to back up our files in case of emergency.
Maybe even use that handy WWN USB for article back-up.
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Emma Tiebens on April 15th, 2010
Hi Jason!
Yes, when I was a newbie blogger, I created a Blog with http://www.Wordpress.com and had a domain forwarding to it. As my business and subscribers grew, I transitioned to Wordpress themed blog under paid hosting. Looking back, I wished I never had to put time and effort in writing all the content on my first blog.
As inconvenient as it was, what mattered was I took action and got started even if I wasn’t sure of what I was doing. I am currently redoing that blog again and this time doing it on Thesis… I LOVE the layout of your Blog so I am modeling mine after yours… with a “feminine twist” of course
Thank you for writing about this very important issue – it will definitely save new marketers who are starting to blog, a lot of grief if they listen to your recommendations!
Thanks Jason!!!
Emma And yes, I agree… they are mean for saying “cartoon folks can’t drive an Audi ”
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April 15th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
But here’s the thing…
At least you got started.
A lot of people never get that far.
I would rather be moving and making mistakes then not moving at all.
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Dwayne Huggins on April 15th, 2010
Hey J
The allure of free is expensive.
Risk gets factored into cost as does time.
Self hosted blogs is THE ONLY WAY to go for a serious business person. The rest is just Mickey Mouse hoping and praying.
People also respond to you better if they can see you own your own stuff.
How serious will you take someones advice on blogging or marketing if there blog is not self hosted? Not very.
Dwayne
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April 15th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
It would be like printing business cards on paper instead of card-stock…
*shaking my head
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Dan Johnson on April 15th, 2010
Nice post Jason, owning your own site and domain name is the only way to go and with wordpress.org, they make it so darn easy to set it all up.
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April 15th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Yeah, it’s like one button!
I mean, it doesn’t get that much easier in life.
But still, it’s tough to find that button if you don’t know where to lool.
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Rhonda Miller on April 15th, 2010
Hey Jason,
I guess this turned out to be not so petty of a subject after all. I can’t believe how many people were affected in just this small group. Can you imagine what the percentage is globally? Way over my head.
This was some really good information.
Thanks a lot,
Rhonda
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April 15th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Wow.
Crazy…
Thought everybody was going to pelt me with stones for being too obvious…
But this is a bigger problem than I thought.
Hope it helps a few smart beginners out.
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The "MLM" Cowboy on April 15th, 2010
I’ll be doggonned Jason,
I finally got something done a day before you told me too.
I guess I can thank Norbert for that one, and he can thank “Mr D”, cause that’s who’s teaching us all.
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Hanna Scheid on April 15th, 2010
Thanks again Jason for great content!
I got my own private blog for FREE from: http://tinyurl.com/your-free-blog
I highly recommend these guys to anyone. They have the knowledge so you don’t have to.
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Jerome Ratliff on April 15th, 2010
Hi J,
I have to say, sometimes you kill me with your choice of words like, “booger”. So hilarious!
These are some good simple basics for blogger newbies. I’ve done all of these. As a matter of fact, I learned it from TF 2.0.
Talking about being grateful. I don’t know if I would’ve ever figured this blogging thing out. They made it so easy to follow along.
Have an awesome day my friend,
Jerome Ratliff
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April 15th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Step-by-step to the money tree.
There’s not too many courses out there that break everything down like TF2.0
I’m seriously worried about anybody who is trying to do it all alone.
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shirland on April 15th, 2010
You don’t have to techie to set up your own self hosted blog. I follow a free step by step video with Melanie Milletics to set up my first blog. I am still building on the things that I learned from her about a year ago. Teach a man to fish.
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April 15th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
Nice,
I’ll have to check that out Shirland.
Might make for a good resource to stick up for some people starting out.
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Hector cuevas on April 15th, 2010
Hey Jason,
Added to the fact that those sites can be shut down any minute, the restrictions they have are also limiting your business.
Think of all the widgets and plugins that wordpress has that make you blog much more effective, and not to mention, your life so much easier.
Here are a few essentials for you newcomers:
all in one seo – for seo purposes
google xml sitemap – to notify google when you post
askimeth – to keep the spam “robots” away
comment luv – to increase reader participation
tweememe – to increase sharing of your posts
hope that helps your readers,
Great post Jason
talks soon
Hector Cuevas
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April 15th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Awesome,
Great recommendations Hector.
Those will really help some people out.
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yadvinder singh on April 15th, 2010
Yes right and many of the people don’t won’t to take the trouble of getting their own domain name and hosting and they won’t easy solutions to their problem not to know that it is a difficult one in the long run. thanks for the post, jason
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April 15th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Gosh,
I think we should have a new rule on the JB Blog where anybody who even thinks of getting a blog that isn’t self-hosted…
…get’s whacked in the back of the noggin.
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Mike Paul on April 15th, 2010
Yep, I had a free blog at one point in time, but I quickly figured out that I really had NO control over pretty much anything.
So, I quickly switched to self-hosted Wordpress and haven’t looked back since. The platform is so rock-solid now and continues to develop more every day.
And with the use of plug-ins, you can really make your Wordpress blog a powerful marketing machine.
Good tips as always, Jason.
Talk soon,
Mike
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April 15th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Self-hosted Wordpress is definitely the way to go.
Nothing easier.
Can’t even believe it when I come across and old-style plain HTML site these days.
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Amy on April 15th, 2010
Great post, Jason… and, again, you have such a graceful way of simplifying things for people.
This is a topic I hear debated all the time… even Mike Dillard talks about the pros and cons of each option. But you take all of the guesswork out of it and make it crystal clear… self-hosting is KING.
I transitioned over a while back from free to self-hosted and LOVE eveything about my new blog (s). Soooo much more flexibilty, TONS of amazing plugins to customize it however you like, and, as you said, I own it!
Thanks again for everything you provide for all of us .
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April 15th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Thank goodness you converted.
It’s like trying to build a house on quicksand.
I’m still shocked by how many people have lost their blogs by making this mistake. 
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Gayle on April 15th, 2010
Morning Jason
wow, I had no idea you could do this for free and then get your blog shut down – thanks for the information. Being a traditional business owner for the last 20 odd years – learnt way way back there is no such thing as a free lunch. And this morning reminded myself again – do the work, if I jump the queue I’ll just have to come back again later.
Excellent information as always
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Bill Bolmeier on April 15th, 2010
“Because it’s like building a house on a piece of property you don’t own!”
About as simple as it gets and an excellent way to explain to folks why you need your own domain name and web hosting.
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Tracey Hausel on April 15th, 2010
Hey Jason, I don’t think this is too basic a topic. Some beginners might not even know they have an affordable choice to free blogs.
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April 15th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
It’s nice to hear that because sometimes I wonder if I’m putting the horse before the cart.
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Mike Baglio on April 15th, 2010
Hey Jason ! ya know when your used to doing business on a budget you get used to doing as many things as you can for free. Thanks for the wake up call on owning your own blog, web site, etc. I didn’t realize you could lose them in a snap of your fingers and everything on them.
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April 15th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Totally,
Nothing specifically wrong with free blogs…
As long as you know they could disappear overnight and you’re willing to take that risk.
Although, I don’t think it’s necessary to take that risk.
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Calmplex on April 15th, 2010
for those not so tech savvy kats like me try weebly.com… they have free options or pay options… and websites are as easy to set up as drag and drop…
as far as using like tumblr or something… i think it’s ok… but you definately should have your own domain name that points to it… not tumblr/whatever.com etc.
or you can have your own hosting like i do(that you don’t own either btw) but copy/paste your blogs from your site into those other blog sites too for further networking with those communities…
I like these blogging blogs… keep em coming i could use some more advice on it! Thanks!
-Plex
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April 15th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
I don’t see anything wrong with that as long as your “nerve center” or base of operations is safe and secure. Then you can easily branch out into other options.
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Marcus Baker on April 15th, 2010
Jason,
I played around with a free blog option for a very short time with an emphasis on the words, “played around with”.
I only took my blog seriously when I moved to the self hosted Wordpress option. Sadly, as great as FREE can be, sometimes we only value what we pay for and in this case it’s worth every cent.
Cheers
Marcus
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April 15th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
It’s a nice way to get started.
I won’t deny that.
And it’s easier.
But for what it costs… definitely all for the paid options…
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John Rothstein on April 15th, 2010
Jason,
This is such a great post and important advice. You poured a lot of passion into this one and I could feel it coming through my flat screen. Already RT’d it for the folks on twitter and shared it on fb. Thanks again.
John Rothstein
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April 15th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Thanks John.
Definitely appreciated.
It’s something to strive for in every post.
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Wayne Wu on April 15th, 2010
Hey Jas,
Not to mention they also put automatically generated links to related blog posts of other people’s free blogs. You have no control over that automatic linking.
I all for linking to other people’s blogs. But that should be something you control.
Cheers,
Wayne
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April 16th, 2010 at 9:19 am
Yeah, I totally forgot about that.
Some are terrible, they even put full banner ads on the top of your blog.
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Eric McMillan on April 15th, 2010
I use some Blogger and wordpress blogs, but not for my main traffic generation. I use them for some super sneaky SEO stuff that won’t hurt my business if the sites get shutdown or go away. The neat thing about Blogger stuff is that they seem to get indexed like grease lightning. Right keyword phrase and you can see some pretty immediate results done correctly.
Another Goodin’
Eric McMillan
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April 16th, 2010 at 9:20 am
Sneaky!
Goes to show there’s a way to use every tool in the Internet Marketing toolbox.
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Barry White on April 15th, 2010
A very wise man said this over 2000 years ago about building on a foundation of sand. Jesus Christ said at Matt. 7:24-27 “Therefore everyone that hears these sayings of mine and does them will be likened to a discreet man, who built his house upon the rock-mass. 25 And the rain poured down and the floods came and the winds blew and lashed against that house, but it did not cave in, for it had been founded upon the rock-mass. 26 Furthermore, everyone hearing these sayings of mine and not doing them will be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand. 27 And the rain poured down and the floods came and the winds blew and struck against that house and it caved in, and its collapse was great.”
So Jason I consider you a very wise man (or cartoon character) to remind us of these great words.
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April 16th, 2010 at 9:21 am
Barry,
I’m happy you shared that quote with the “better bunch”.
I think even non-religious folks will enjoy that one.
Truth is truth.
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Matt Cassity on April 15th, 2010
I have noticed the difference. I have marketed things in the pass and using free domains and hosting just doesn’t get results. Anyways using your own website helps you build a personal brand anyway.
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April 16th, 2010 at 9:23 am
I think a lot of it has to do with credibility too.
People pick up on things almost subconsciously and a free domain name extension is one of those “red flags” that scares some people away.
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Craig White on April 15th, 2010
Jason,
I sure took me a long time too get to the bottom of this page so I could comment. Wow! everyone has some great comments here. I learned really quick that Wordpress.com doesn’t like affiliate marketers and I quickly jumped to Go Daddy to host my Wordpress blog.
This enabled me to have complete control of my blog with my own domain.
As the old saying goes “You get what you pay for”
Thanks for the great post for those folks that needed your advise.
Craig White
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April 16th, 2010 at 9:24 am
I hear you!
I need to figure out a way to get the comment form on the top.
Diane Hochman mentioned something about it a while back in a video.
And sometimes you get what you don’t pay for too.
Free is like a bill that comes due later in the year.
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Timothy Willan on April 15th, 2010
BOY OH BOY! You hit it again Jason! I started out with bogger, Than went to wordpress.com, That was it Game over! nether one worked out! I now have
wordpress .org hosted by hostgator, Best move I made!
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Ken West on April 16th, 2010
Hey Jason,
“If you won’t invest in your own business then why should anybody else?
It’s something to think about…”
Funny how MLMers are out preaching to prospects that they should join their opportunity because they need to take control of their own financial future, but then their not really practicing the same thing for themselves. You have to control as much of your own business as possible.
Take care,
Ken
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April 16th, 2010 at 9:27 am
It would be funny… but it’s also a little bit sad too.
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Judith Sherman on April 16th, 2010
Respectfully, I don’t agree with you on this topic. Everything else you report is superb, but if you host your domain with godaddy or me at MarketingmergeWeb.com (I’m a reseller for godaddy) and add wordpress application, you get many more hits. For example, I was getting very little hits on my domains until I started adding wordpress applications. Now I have between 600,000 and 800,000 a week. I can back up what I just said because I have the analytics to prove it.
I agree that you should own your own domain, that makes perfect sense, and I also agree that you need to host your domain with a good company. I have been using wordpress for three years and have over 25 domains I host through godaddy and my own reseller’s site.
So if you point is to own your domain and host your it with a good company, even if you have to pay a monthly fee, then I completely agree with you. However, wordpress has their own community and adds tremendous benefits for you. If you go to http://www.ShermanWebDesign.com and go to the page that shows examples of my work, you will see the proof of just one of my reports.
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April 16th, 2010 at 7:35 am
Oopse, should have read the report more closely. I didn’t realize you were talking about self-hosting. I guess my remark proved your point. Thank you.
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April 16th, 2010 at 7:45 am
Oopse, I used the wrong domain address. Try http://www.ShermanWebDesign.INFO. In addition, I should have read the report more closely. I didn’t realize you were talking about self-hosting. I guess my remark proved your point. Thank you.
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April 16th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Hey Judith,
No problem.
I should have made it clear in the first few subheads and paragraphs.
I totally agree with you.
Self-hosted Wordpress rocks.
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April 16th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
I am totally amazed at my numbers. I had 869,000 hits with 6,000 visitors two weeks ago and only 19,000 in January. Wordpress had 857,800 so that says a lot about the wordpress community. Actually, my report shows wordpress as an actual browser. It beat out windows and chrome.
April 17th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
I believe it.
Wordpress is the dominant blogging platform.
Almost everybody is using it for their business blogs now.
Ilka Flood on April 16th, 2010
Hi Jason,
Excellent info! We often take those ‘basics’ for granted and don’t share them because we assume everyone knows them already. But often that’s not true.
I’ve learned over the years that FREE isn’t really free. It’ can come with a huge price tag. You have to think, “how valuable is my time?”
There is no abundance of time. Once it’s gone it’s gone.
Have a great weekend!
Ilka
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Derek Fobert on April 16th, 2010
Hey there, Jason… You stopped me just in time, Man! Here I was, just about to get set up with wordpress.com. Okay… what are your thoughts and tips on having your own domain name? There’s another article for ya!
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April 17th, 2010 at 9:44 am
I agree with Jason….get your OWN domain name. I’m sure Jason has written on his blog how to set up one. I’ve also recently written an article on my blog at tonylogue.com.
It’s better to own than rent on the internet, at least with domains.
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April 17th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
It’s not too hard to do either.
Most decent webhosts will let you purchase them through their back office too.
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Judith Sherman on April 16th, 2010
Jason, how do I let people know that I am a reseller for godaddy.com? If people are going to do godaddy, they might as well do it with me. I have the same pricing but I get a little back when people use my hosting. Do you have advertising or anything or how can we advertise without it appearing to be spam?
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April 17th, 2010 at 9:27 am
If you have a blog, and you are a GoDaddy affiliate, they provide banners galore that you can place on your blog pages for click throughs.
Contact me if you’d like me to walk you through it.
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April 17th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Hey Judith,
Your best bet is to advertise through education.
Write an honest review and let people know that you’re an authorized reseller.
If you don’t let them know then they’ll never find out.
You can always link to your review or other information in your blog posts or from other parts of your site.
If your question was about advertising here in comments.
That would be a huge faux pas.
Most people would consider that spam.
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Tony Logue on April 17th, 2010
Great stuff Jason. Yeah, I’ve had my own hosting and domains for several years. Currently have over 20 domains registered, host my own blogs and sites, as well for a few of my team members.
True, there was a learning curve, but it’s simply a part of learning the proper skills to be successful. If you’re willing to put out the effort, you can’t hope to be as successful as you want to be.
Now I will admit, I know some who are highly successful online and don’t own a single domain or blog…but I think they are the exception.
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April 17th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
Yeah, it doesn’t take long to get dozens of domains.
You buy one for one idea or site then you move on. Before you know it you have 30 and you barely use some of them for anything other than redirects!
At least that’s my experience.
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Jose on April 17th, 2010
Jason, this is a huge tip for me, now that I’m about to start working on my own blog. So I will definetly go by what you said, starting with wordpress.org and if I have trouble doing this, believe me, I will ask for your help or any one’s that happens to read the comment.
Thanks again for your tips, and as always, Blesings for you and for those dedicated marketers that comment on this blog.
Jose Joe Lasa
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April 19th, 2010 at 9:58 am
Hey Jose,
It’s easier than it looks as long as you take it one step at a time.
And depending on your webhost of course… some even let you get your first domain name free.
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DeAngelo "YoungSuccess" on April 21st, 2010
Jason
Another great post. Keep it up, thanks for the info.
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Doc on April 25th, 2010
Great post. I have said this stuff multiple times to my team but I haven’t said it nearly as eloquently. I had to post a reference to it on my blog…
http://homebasedbusinessdoc.com
Thanks!
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Thanks for the insight Jason!!
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April 15th, 2010 at 10:37 am
Ouch!
Kerie, that’s one of my biggest fears for people starting out.
I didn’t know if this was “too basic” to mention but I think more people need to hear what happened to you.
It’s easier than learning the tough way.
Which I tend to do a lot myself.
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