How to Get Your WordPress Blog Set Up for Free

Why go through the headache of setting up a blog on your own domain yourself or by paying a web designer hundreds of dollars when you can get it done for free? When you sign up for a year of shared web hosting through this link, FreeWPBlogSetup.com gets a commission that makes it worth our while to set up a basic WordPress blog* for you at no additional cost.
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Why Pay for Hosting?

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Yes, you can have a free blog at wordpress.com or blogspot.com, but there are downsides to this route: These sites can shut down your blog at any time. This means you can lose all your data (blog posts, comments, images, etc.) Your site does not look as legitimate if it's hosted on wordpress.com … [Read More...]

Why WordPress?

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Simply put, WordPress is one of the most popular open-source content management systems on the planet. When you run WordPress on your own domain, you have complete control over your data. Even if WordPress goes out of business, you still have the software on your own server. And as long as you … [Read More...]

Can’t I Just Do It Myself?

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Web hosts often provide 1-click WordPress installations using scripts like SimpleScripts or Fantastico. These scripts sometimes add unwanted links to the footer of your blog. You ought to have full control over what you link to from your own site. And if you don't know how to remove this code … [Read More...]