What are my Bloggin’ Options?

Author DJ Francisco on April 4th, 2008

So what are your options if you want to get started with your own wedding vendor blog?

Wordpress.com (free)
Wordpress.com is a great source if you want to get started. Wordpress is, in my opinion, the best bloggin’ software you will use. That’s what I use and that’s what a lot of bloggers use. It’s easy to use and it’s free. The only downfall about using Wordpress.com is that all the traffic that you attract will be sent to Wordpress.com.
An installation of Wordpress on your own domain (after initial setup… free)
This is what I recommend for everyone, right from the start. You will have to invest a small amount of money to get it installed on your website or a new website, but all the traffic you attract will be directed to that website. For, example, I get a lot of traffic toe my DJ Website, FHPEntertainment.com because of my blog there. If I were to have started my blog with one of the free blog hosts, they would have benefited from all that traffic.
Blogspot.com (free)
Blogspot is another free blog hosting platform. It’s an alternative to Wordpress.com and it’s owned by Google.com. But the concept is still the same and the traffic results are still the same: If you earn traffic it will go to your blogspot.com blog, not your business website.
Typepad.com ($4.95/mo.)
I don’t know anything about Typepad.com or why people would pay a monthly fee for a blog. But it’s there and it’s another alternative.

I would recommend anyone that is looking to seriously increase traffic to their business website, through bloggin’, to take the time and install Wordpress on their website server. The software is free, I would be willing to get it set up for $50.