Free Wordpress Blog Set Up
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Todays hosted Wordpress Blogs are the McLaren F1’s of the internet!
Unlike those boring text heavy, Model T Ford blogs of a few years back todays blogs can contain audio and video. They can be themed and, as you see here, can look great!They are user and visitor friendly and interactive. Visitors can comment on posts, susbcribe to RSS feeds to be informed whenever the blog is updated and lots more.
The search engines love ‘em too - a regularly updated blog will soon overtake a static web site in the search engine rankings even if the web site is well established and has been around for longer.
Blogs are Web 2.0 friendly. Web 2.0 is the interactive side of the web where the people on the internet decide what they like rather than having it decided for them. Digg, StumbleUpon and all the Social Bookmarking sites and News Directories are good examples of that. Blogs are made for that - a good post/article can create a viral stampede of visitors to a blog literally overnight!
Not only that but a good blog can include all the Web 2.0 stuff out there - Like YouTube or (below) VideoJug.
BUT THERE’S A PROBLEM. If you use the ‘free’ blogging platforms like Blogger and LiveJournal you are limited in what you can do with your blog ( themes etc.) sometimes you can’t ‘embed’ video into a post and their are other restrictions too. Even Wordpress (our blogging platform of choice) suggest that you set up your Wordpress blog on your own hosting account rather than theirs.So what’s the answer?
