ArtDeco

Hello all

I realized when I started this thread that I was behind but I had no idea how frickin' behind I was - I had no paypal account, no adsense account, no idea how a blog was any different from a regular website, no marketing knowledge, and no idea what seo or web 2.0 even was.

I couldn't even understand what SEOmike was talking about. I had nothing except years of technical and dbms programming experience, courage, and some time since I no longer have a real job.

What I have learned and done after I put a coffee pot next to my computer and kissed my wife goodby for a few months -

I investigated some keywords at wordtracker.com and I started a half dozen free blogs on blogger.com and wordpress.com, set up a adsense and an affiliate account for them, bought three related domain names with free hosting at godaddy.com and made some five page websites for them using a free html editor from Mozilla and went to some jv sites to load up on some free resale rights articles and ebooks. I edited the articles so they are unique and posted them on blogger just to get my adsense account approved - which worked btw.

I haven't spent (or made) a dime yet. But I'm not complaining - the tuition is free at wicked fire so far, and now that I know how to build a site and how ridiciously easy a blog is to build, I need to buy some hosting and move on.

I heard that dreamhost and hostgator are both pretty good hosting for wordpress blogs and I think one of you should get the affiliate comission when I sign up for cheap paid hosting, Fair is fair, right?

I read about Bam-Bams experience with changing hosts and don't want to go through that, so can anyone tell me where you would start hosting ?

Thanks in advance.