Day 3: Wordpress.org or Wordpress.com?
March 12th, 2010 | by admin |It’s Day 3 of my “26 Weeks to Freedom” project…only 177 more days to go! Today’s work was all about creating a website to promote the “niche” product I discovered in my research yesterday. But that’s only part of what needs to be done (and actually the easiest part). Now I will focus on drawing Internet traffic to the site, and there are several methods for doing that which I will discuss more tomorrow and as time goes on. By fortunate coincidence, just this month one of my mentors, Chris Farrell, is featuring a new series of videos for his members that are specifically on the subject of how to draw traffic to your website.
I want to point out that in order to set up a website in the first place, you don’t really need to spend any money—even on a domain name—if you don’t want to. There are many, many places on the Web that offer free sites (including your own Internet service provider, most likely). One good way to do that is to use a blog site as your website, because you can do many of the same things in the blog format that you can do on a regular site. In my case, what I did to create my “26 Weeks to Freedom” blog site was to install Wordpress (from Wordpress.org) as an additional directory for my regular website. (When you click the link below to visit that site, you’ll notice in the browser bar at the top of your screen that “26-weeks-to-freedom” is a specific extension to my primary domain that I am using exclusively for that blog.)
That’s what you can do with Wordpress.org. On the other hand, if you go to Wordpress.com you can also set up your own blog, without having an existing site or hosting, although you won’t own the domain name as well as having some other restrictions. Another resource for creating blogs is Google’s Blogger.com; I actually put together several blog sites there a few months ago to promote specific products through Amazon.com’s affiliate program. (Those are still on the Internet but they have remained basically “dormant” for two reasons: a) I did not make any effort to drive traffic to them, because b) although Amazon.com has a very active affiliate program and you can sell zillions of products there, the commissions are very small and, arguably, not worth the effort unless you are doing a large volume of business.)
If you’re curious about how I’m doing on this 6-month “accountability”
project–including the full, unedited blog postings for each day as I go along (with videos, photos, comments, and other links)–please visit my 26 Weeks to Freedom website. I’ll look forward to seeing you there!