Chris Abraham walks you through how to join the fastest-growing and most elegant free blogging services, WordPress.com. Go from the simple acts of joining all the way through set up and administration. Become a blogger in fewer than 45-minutes. Most folks only need the first 15 minutes to get started. Chris is a professional blogging instructor.
Enjoy!
Note: WordPress.com is the free hosted blogging service and comes with certain restrictions. If you intend to blog for commercial reasons WordPress.com may not be for you and we suggest you check out their terms of service to ensure you will be able to run the kind of blog you want. Â Pay particular attention to their guidelines for advertising and affiliate marketing if these are areas you are likely to be involved in.
December 27, 2009 at 8:55 am
This is a really great video tutorial. I would like to know your opinion about WordPress and Blogspot. I have heard that google will give much bonuses to blogspot, even thought WP has so many great plugins to get the same.
Thanks
December 27, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Hi Richard,
WordPress V Blogspot is an argument that has raged for a long time
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Whether Google gives any preference to Blogspot blogs is impossible to say but I personally do not think there is much truth in it. I ran a blog on Worpdress.com for a year or two and Google gave it a page rank of 5 after a year or so.
One of the biggest differences is the fact that WordPress.com do not allow the use of javascript on their sites, so, if monetization of a blog is important to you, Blogspot would be a better choice because you are permitted to run third party scripts and therefore include things like Adsense etc. You cannot do this on WordPress.com – for that you need to use WordPress.org and provide your own hosting.
January 2, 2010 at 9:02 am
Thanks for sharing this video tutorial, it’s taught me a lot! cheers
January 23, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Very useful tutorial.Thank you verry much.