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.
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