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WordPress Blog Hosting: WordPress.com or Self-Hosted?

Idaconcpts

Given that WordPress hosts 59,914,568 as of 09/25/2011 and that over 301 million people view more than 2.5 billion pages each month on WordPress.com-hosted blogs (data from WordPress Stats ), it is not a surprise that many users around the world have chosen WordPress as their CMS of choice. Customization. Technical Know-How.

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Why This Blog is Hosted with Tubu

Ari Herzog

Every website must be hosted for you to see it. After migrating this blog from Google’s free platform to a self-hosted WordPress platform in the fall of 2008, I followed Chris Brogan’s blogging advice and contacted Tubu Internet Solutions (affiliate link) to host my blog for $10 a year. So did other bloggers.

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Why I Chose SiteGround for Web Hosting

Ari Herzog

In the 14 years since purchasing ariherzog.com, I’ve paid several companies for web hosting. I don’t know any blogger, company, or website owner that operates their own server. Everyone — person and business — rents space for a monthly or annual period of time with a hosting provider. Thanks for reading.

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Why Become a Web Hosting Reseller?

Idaconcpts

Web hosting reselling entails renting a server from another web hosting company and leasing out bandwidth, hard disk space, and processing power to other customers at a lower rate. In turn, you can place ads on the websites of people you host on your private server. Hosting Reselling Can Be Difficult.

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Choosing a blogging service: Blogger, Tumblr or Wordpress

Mindjumpers

Blogger Blogger is Google’s blogging platform and one of the most widely used free blogging services. It doesn’t require your own hosting and domain name and you can log in by using your Google account. Wordpress Wordpress has both the abilty to have a webhosted blog at wordpress.com and a self-hosted blog at wordpress.org.

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Dear Blog Comment Spammer: I Think Your Comment Spam Tool is Broken

Bill Hartzer

Dear Blog Comment Spammer, who just left a comment on one of my recent blog posts: I think whatever software tool or script that you are using is broken. Whatever the reason, you should have noticed that none of the blog comments that are left on my blog actually allow outgoing links to websites. Can you tell? {. {I

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Why Char-Broil’s Blogger Outreach Program Gives Me the Warm and Fuzzies

Convince & Convert

A few months ago I was struck by the number of posts floating around that discuss digital marketing “fails,” and blogger outreach gone bad—so many posts that just focused on what not to do. I interviewed bloggers who had phenomenal experiences with PR pros and compiled this post. Finding the Right Bloggers. So I created one.

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