qualo

I've been pissing around for months making sites and reading ebooks and forums and am now ready to do some proper IM.
I'm very comfortable using xsitepro and blogger but most people seem to use wordpress. I know I can use those but the question is should I be using Wordpress too? (i'd rather learn it now than later if its recommended).
I love blogger and know what xsitepro is good for, but i keep hearing about plugins for WP so i feel like i might be missing out on something.
cheers.

dchuk

Use whatever you know that doesn't leave you wishing you could do more because of a limited platform

jryan21

Just don't put any money sites on wordpress.com, host it yourself. Most hosts have install scripts (i.e. fantastico) where even a newb can get it set up in a couple minutes.

wickedvirus

I don't think it matter what you make your site on. But it should be self hosted.

Bompa

Are you talking about wordpress.com or just the wordpress software?

Anyways, if you can seo with blogspot, go for it, you are not missing much
if anything at all.

Most of the sites ranking well, are NOT wordpress blogs or they have been
heavily modified.

Bompa

qualo

Thanks for the replies. My latest blogger sites are indexing well so I'll stick with them for now. Blogger is so simple to use, and now that there are static pages too i don't see any reason to use wordpress, unless I wanted to do autoblogs, which i dont.

I have been hosting them on blogger (with proper domain names), why is that a bad thing for money sites? I have hosting elsewhere, some bloggers are on that and some on blogger. Is blogger hosting not secure or something?

phyrcom

It's worth your while getting comfortable with Wordpress so you can use some of the plugins that are available. Maybe try it out when you build your next site

jryan21

If you're on their domain and using their space, they can pretty much shut you down whenever they feel like it and your money site's gone. If you have your own domain and are pointing it to their space, it's a little better. Generally, you don't want to register a domain and have it hosted at the same place (i.e. godaddy)

dragonhawk28

QFT

The plugins alone are worth at least dicking around with wordpress. They can add many more functions that blogger just can't do.

qualo

i've just read that blogger are stopping people from self hosting blogs on march 22nd.
i guess that solves the question. will post another reply when i've learnt wordpress as a comparison for anyone else in the same boat.

franky123

If you want run affiliate marketing on wordpress then you should go far paid services. Paid hosting and domain offer opportunity to install lots of plugins to increase no. of visitors.

Thanks
Franky

datzFdup

I'd say learning learning to use WP is so easy, there isn't any reason to not put in the time investment. You can get something up and running in like 10 minutes. Hacking out one of the many available free themes takes a few hours to a few days, depending on your comfort level with php.

I knew nothing at all about WP or blogging software in general, and had WP running in less than an hour (from registering a domain name to getting hosting to downloading and installing WP via ftp) and I literally knew nothing about any of this stuff. I'd never even set up a web page before.

I probably spent 5 hours or so hacking through the theme php (which I also knew nothing about, though I do have considerable programming experience) to get it to do what I wanted. I'm sure someone who knew what they were doing could get it done in 20 minutes.

Long story short, well worth the little time I put in.

amanda11

xsitepro or wordpress -- it hardly matters. What matters most is getting the offer, content and traffic up and running.