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By: Quick Start To Setting Up Your First Blog » LadyPens -

Quick Start To Setting Up Your First Blog » LadyPens - — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:27:41 +0000

[...] Lynn Terry blogs daily at http://www.ClickNewz.com where she shares Online Business and Marketing tips. For even more tips on this topic, see her article on Blogger vs WordPress at http://www.clicknewz.com/782/blogger-vs-wordpress/ [...]

By: Sarah Anderson

Sarah Anderson — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:41:21 +0000

I have several blogs setup using Wordpress self hosted and also some blogger blogs as well as wordpress.com blogs. The setup up is done strategically.

Self hosted wordpress is the way to go for your main sites. Recently I decided to setup non profit site for my cell group. While wordpress.com is still better, blogger has it plus albeit small ones.

Easier to embed videos & google docs. Maybe I did not figure out how to do it in wordpress.com yet but it wa much easier on blogger.

Having wrote all that, I was really surprised when Lynn mentioned Google deleted their own blog. Ha Ha. Joke of the day at the time I’m sure. Big G is not infallible after all

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:42:10 +0000

I started on blogger as well, just over 5 years ago, and switched to WordPress too. It’s never too late to make the switch, so no worries.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:39:16 +0000

“Less than $10/year” is referring to the price of your own domain name.

For hosting, many of us use HostGator – and I have a coupon code and a checklist at: http://www.clicknewz.com/1872/how-to-start-a-wordpress-blog/

By: julie

julie — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:35:45 +0000

great post. I’m already planning to switch from WP.com to WP.org with self-hosted. But, question is, how is it $10/year?

By: Pep

Pep — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:56:56 +0000

Thanks for your comparison.
But I had chosen Blogger b4 I saw this article:(

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:36:32 +0000

Good question!

Here’s what I did: I left my blog at blogger.com just as it was. I added posts there as I was making the transition, letting my readers know that I was moving to clicknewz.com and to come there and read the posts.

I then updated the blogger blog once a week with links to the new blog, for anyone that happened by.

Then I updated all the links in the sidebar and navigation to reflect the new links (on my domain) and the new RSS Feed links. So if someone subscribed by email or RSS at my old blog – it would actually subscribe them to my new blog.

Hope that helps

By: maureen molly phiri winckelmans

maureen molly phiri winckelmans — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:02:57 +0000

how can i re-direct from blogger?I would love to hear from you.

By: Insomnia Remedy

Insomnia Remedy — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:42:18 +0000

I have a blogger blog that I don’t use as I moved to having WP on my own hosting platform a while ago.

You say that “I didnt want to just delete it – but redirect the traffic here instead.”

I didn’t know that you could re-direct from blogger. Can you tell me how to do that?

Liz

By: Quick Start To Setting Up Your First Blog » Lady Pens -

Quick Start To Setting Up Your First Blog » Lady Pens - — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:01:25 +0000

[...] Lynn Terry blogs daily at Click Newz where she shares Online Business and Marketing tips. For even more tips on this topic, see her article on Blogger vs WordPress [...]

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:32:51 +0000

Hi Darla,

When I made the switch from blogger to wordpress, I left my blog at blogger.com and started fresh on the wordpress blog. I blogged about making the move, and I ocassionally updated the blogger blog with links to the new blog. I did that because I didnt want to lose rankings the original blog had. Might be an idea for you too

By: Darla

Darla — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:23:12 +0000

All good points! What do you think though, for someone like me who HAS had the blog on Blogspot for several years. I don’t want to just throw away everything I’ve built up. I can easily get a domain name for the blogspot blog and forward it to it…I love how your blog looks though, and I made some changes today that I think will give it a little more usability. It doesn’t look like a Blogspot template at all, it matches my website. I would love to hear what you think.

By: Celebrating 2 Years Of ClickNewz

Celebrating 2 Years Of ClickNewz — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:52:56 +0000

[...] actually started my first blog almost 4 years ago on Blogger.com, but made the switch to WordPress in March of 2006. That was a major turning point, and one of the best blogging decisions I’ve [...]

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:45:42 +0000

I agree with the recommendation to move to WordPress. I also started on Blogger, but moved to WordPress a couple months later. I like Blogger, but wanted to host on my own domain and needed some of the features offered by WordPress.

I just wrote about an experiment I conducted to see if a new blog could be launched in less than 15 minutes on either Blogger or WordPress.com. You can read about it at http://bloggingstartup.com. Look for the January 25, 2008 post.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:24:26 +0000

Thank you very much. That was very helpful. I’ve been learning alot about blogging over the last few days and this has helped me alot.