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34 responses to “Different Types of Blogs a Blogger Can Have!”
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Alok, I’ve read Shweta’s lines for you on her new self-hosted wp blog. It feels really good to be around some down to earth & generous persons. I’m glad that I joined IB and meet you guys. Congratz you & Shweta both . And the article is indeed a gem. Alok, please come up with a post on comment vocabulary soon 😉
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Thank you so much Ravish. Buddy you know you are asking me to write on something on which I myself is a bit short and hence I am going away from it, but don’t worry I will soon write on to it.
I am really thankful that IB gave me some great friends like you, Vinay, Shweta, Mani, and many more, I cannot even prepare a list of those good friends, fortunately just helped Shweta a bit and she made so many praise for my help 🙂 I am not sure if I am that much good or not, but yes, it really feels good to hear those things from a blogger like you and Shweta. Thanks to you two for such a nice words about me.
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Informative post, Alok!
Thanks to all your help & patience, I finally have my own Domain name!
Better late than never! Feels great 🙂 You had been advising this to me ever since we first discussed.
Great that you are sharing your knowledge & helping everyone. Grateful!
Please continue the great work 🙂
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Thank you so much Anita, honestly I do believe that the biggest mistake which any serious blogger is doing is to blog on a free domain. Honestly a domain name won’t cost more than a thousand bucks for an year, which any person can easily afford and hence I do suggest everyone to not do the mistake of working for a name which is not even giving you an identity. Hope I can be able to let others understand the same 🙂
Thank you so much for all your good words. 🙂
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He he.. Alok, let me reveal you my stupidity. I’m using a domain name for link shortening but not hosting. Moreover, I’ve also registered a domain name on my name with .com extension separately and paying for it for last three years without using it. 😀
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Hey Ravish that is quite interesting to know. I hope now you will set up your own blog on your own domain names 🙂
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Great Alok! I NEVER knew any of the information you have just shared! I am not ready to switch yet, but I want to switch that’s for sure …
You are really patient and generous to help so many bloggers upgrade to better place that is self host sites… wishes for your good work 🙂 Hope to get benefit from your skills in near future 🙂-
Thank you so much Kokila, I am always here to help you 🙂 Do let me know whenever you decided to do so 🙂
Thank you so much Kokila for all the good words and appreciation 🙂
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This article is for keeps!! you can refer it any time and here is your solution. It helped me immensely. Thanks a lot.
Sorry for a few days I couldn’t concentrate much on the blogging part I was having a tearing busy time. Missed your blogs. Glad I am back reading them. 🙂
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Thank you so much Datta. I could sense that you must be busy 🙂 Welcome back. 🙂
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Alok, it is a very smart thing with the image you have done, integrating the comment request and the post accordingly. I agree, wordpress does seem a lot more user friendly than blog spot.
But like you said, the primary question of why one should blog is the best way to start any motion or activity.. 🙂 This post is definitely gonna help a lot of people who are planning to have their own domain name and site. A much needed one Alok 🙂
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Yes Vinay, you are right, WP is always better than BlogSpot. Thank you so much Vinay for appreciating my efforts. 🙂
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Of late I have been thinking of having my own domain but little apprehensive but your post suggestions is going to help me while considering ups and downs….thank you for that
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Having own domain name is one of the best steps towards gaining popularity through blogging, all those like you; who are a bit serious about blogging should definitely have a self domain name. Good decision Chaitali. Thank you so much for your comment 🙂
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With every blog of yours I am gathering so much information. Very very informative blog!
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Thank you so much Shweta. I am glad that you are liking my blog posts 🙂
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100000 time u adviced me the same but still im continuing with blogspot.in..:)))))))))))
Good post ..hope people like me will re think..:)))))))))))))-
Ha ha Remya, don’t worry you are not the one who is still working with blogspot blog. 🙂 There are many more bloggers out here, actually many of them don’t want to shift just because they feel comfortable with their present status. And that’s why they don’t want to change it.
Hope you can soon convert your blog to self hosted WP blog 🙂
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Hey Alok, need little more motivation 😛 Let me share another experience of my self-hosting WP package. Around 7 years ago, our board decided to host a website and we launched a website. It was working great. At that time a company of small town having a website and emails on company name was considered as good brand and we captured a good market and reputation in our locality. At that time blog was new and had huge craze. Long story short, we hosted a blog on company sub domain and thing were going smoothly. But one day, our website was hacked by some learning newbies and all our data were lost. We were new and had no idea how to recover but when we enquired further, it was revealed that hacking was made possible because of that wp blog hosting package.
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Ravish, you are talking about a time of around 2007-08, that was the age when I too faced similar types of issues with a few blogs of mine, and you know what? The main reasons behind all these misshapen was our own mistakes. I actually don’t know what had happened with your website, but then please allow me to let you know some of the reasons which caused hacking of my WP sites:
1. I stored the FTP details of my WP blogs on a FTP program, and that FTP program became one of the weakest chain for my sites. That FTP program was being hacked by hackers and thus a few of my WP sites which also includes INI got hacked, though I get back all the things quite easily.
2. I ignored updating the plugins of my site, which gave a loophole to the hackers to hack my WP sites.
3. I ignored updating the latest versions of WordPress, since I was not at all aware about the importance of these updates that time, which I realized later become a loophole for my sites.
So Ravish, you know what in such cases your hosting matters a lot. The day when my site went down because of hacking, my hosting provider helped me to get the back up, though they normally charge $10 for it, but in my case they don’t even asked for it too, since it was a minor issue for them, and then helped me clean the site and remove the malicious things and suggested me all the best way to keep secure my site. You know why I always appraise HostGator for all the hosting needs, it is simply because of this helpful customer care services only, which I unfortunately not even found with Godaddy, or any other hosting providers.
Unfortunately small hosting providers from India, are typically having no knowledge about it. To be very frank, this is the reason why I don’t host my sites on any Indian service provider.
Though retrieving data from WordPress is also easy, everything is going to store in your database, and if your hosting provider is going to help you then you can anytime retrieve back your WP site, unless and until your database is secured.
Anyways those are a story of around 7 years back, now WP has enhanced it self badly and you cannot expect any such things, if you are updating your sites on a regular basis.
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Firstly thank you so much Alok for answering my question in such a detailed manner. Secondly , you’ve discussed the things so nicely that even a child would not find it difficult to understand the pros and cons of choosing blogging platforms of her/his preference and the 3 different option WP offer to bloggers. I’ve noticed these days that blogs with own domain name usually get a higher Alexa rank ( I may be wrong ) …so it’s really important, as you’ve said, to have it.
Your posts always are helping us in great ways. Thanks again… 🙂-
Yes Maniparna, you are not wrong, but it is actually true that your own domain name will have a higher Alexa Rank, though Alexa Rank is a parameter which I never give any value, but then it happens because since with your domain name, more traffic flow will come to read your blog, thus your blog will have better ranking in all the fields.
Thank you so much Maniparna, I am glad that my blog posts are helping you and others as well 🙂 it is truly giving me a feeling that my life is worthwhile 🙂
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Very Informative post for all the new bloggers. I had started with a free blog on blogspot but once i had read in your blog that it’s advisable to have a blog with your domain name and self hosting. Since then, I had wished to my blog with a domain name and it should be self hosted. I had no idea about it. I searched on net how to have a domain but their technical english language went out of my box and so I decided to take help from you. And here I am with somuchthingstotell.com Thank you Alok. And yeah thank you for informing me to transfer my blogs from blogger to wordpress. 🙂 You are really one of a kind person and your each blog is worth reading 🙂
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Thank you so so much Rekha, I am glad that you liked all the blog posts of mine. To be very frank, you took a very good decision. Self hosted blogs are one of the finest things; which you can proudly say that it is your’s and it will soon become your identity. Welcome to a new world of opportunities, passion and temptation 🙂
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Thanks Alok for explaining explicitly. I know the things have changed. After all, now, I’ve an expert beside me to help me out in any manner. My intention behind sharing the story is that you write an effective post on the topic using your experience and my concerns.
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Yes Ravish, don’t worry will be planning the same only 🙂
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Hi Alok, Very informative post indeed. To be honest I was thinking long to have on my domain however I was clueless. Like me I am sure many of us were waiting for such detailed information. Thank you for sharing. Great job…:)
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Hope I can be able to inspire you to have a self hosted blog Priyashi. I must say one thing bloggers like you are actually wasting their talent on blogspot and wordpress.com sites. You should have a blog of your own, self hosted, customized domain, which will become your identity 🙂
Do let me know if I can help you somehow to update your blog.
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Hi Alok, that will be a great help. Will you please guide me instructions to update my blog. Thank you…:)
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Sure Priyashi, why not? I will definitely guide you to upgrade 🙂 Thank you for your comment over here.
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Thanks Alok Bhai sahab for such guidelines. Expert bloggers like wordpress but blogger is easy for bloggers like me who are not expert.
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Thank you so much Sampat Kumari jee 🙂 It is not about expertise but it is all about the convenience. 🙂
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I am arriving at this post very late…but thank god I am not so late that the info is now stale :D….
I am not that serious of a blogger like many of you are…but I don’t do it for just “time pass” either. But just like every beginner blogger, I have some plans too to expand….I am going to bookmark this one and cross verify when I am ready and for those questionable moments, I will count on you Alok for a personal note 🙂 …With every such blog post of yours, you are definitely living up to Ruchi Chopra’s title “Blog-O-Pedia” 🙂
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Anytime Vidhya, I am always there to let you know whatever you want to know from me in this regard. It is in fact a good decision to upgrade your blog from free to self hosted or own customized domain name status. 🙂
It always gives me pleasure when someone supports this Blog-O-Pedia status for my blogs 🙂 Thank you so much for all the appraisals.
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