One of the things I’ve noticed a lot of business owners do is to set up a free blog on Blogger.com or one of the other free hosting services and then neglect to register a domain name of their own for the blog. So instead of being able to tell people to go to FromKnowledgeToProfit.com, for instance, I would be telling them the Internet address is FromKnowledgeToProfit.blogspot.com instead. Not nearly as professional sounding. And when the price of domain names today is less than ten dollars a year, not a very good business decision.
I’ve created a short tutorial to help you register a domain name and then point it to your free blog. I hope you find the information useful and welcome your comments.
DomainRegistrationBooklet
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Anyone can start a blog, without expense, by using the free blog software at blogger.com
Filled with easy to create modules, Blogger offers a simple way to test the interest in your new idea, to send traffic to other sites, to establish yourself as an expert in your field, and to collect names of interested possible customers. You can even make money with your blog by inserting adsense ads and links to affiliate products.
WordPress is the blog software chosen by most Internet marketers. Once installed, it’s easy to use, has a lot of capability and all kinds of plugins to increase its usefulness. On the down side, it can be tricky to upgrade.
Apparently, upgrading to a newer version of WordPress is simply a matter of click, read instructions, click, click, and you’re done. But for some reason, both times I have tried to do it myself, it’s been more like click, click and I’m done ’cause my blog had a fatal error and disappeared.
After the first time, I learned to make sure I did a full backup before I started. And it’s a good idea to know a WordPress expert you can call on to fix the errors. Which is what I’m off to do now.
Next time, I will hire my expert to do the whole thing, rather than clean up after me. Sigh.
Technorati Tags: WordPress, automatic upgrade, fatal errors
