Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by aproxaday, Jul 18, 2010.

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    I know it is against wordpress.com terms to use advertising methods such as adsense, for that reason i would much rather prefer using my own hosted wordpress.org site. However, I also want the exposure that a wordpress.com blog offers. Is there a way to link the two? Can i direct traffic from my wordpress.com blog to my wordpress.org site? Or ultimately have the blogs I write in my .org show up in my .com with a referring link? Please Help with this issue
     
    aproxaday, Jul 18, 2010 IP
  2. hmansfield

    hmansfield Guest

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    Wordpress.com also frowns on using blogs for SEO purposes, which is what you are describing.
    Besides. A new blog is a new blog. It doesn't matter where you have it...you won't have any traffic until you do some SEO and promotion.
    You don't get some kind of traffic boost just by being on wordpress.com...there are just as many dead blogs with no traffic there as anywhere else.
     
    hmansfield, Jul 18, 2010 IP
  3. willy4987

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    i prefer to chose wordpress.org
     
    willy4987, Jul 18, 2010 IP
  4. Canonical

    Canonical Well-Known Member

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    What exposure? LOL Very few WordPress.com blogs actually rank. I rarely see them in the SERPs. Self-hosted WordPress.org-based sites do great. People who depend on free hosting are not typically that serious about their sites.

    Self-host a WP.org-based site. Promote it. You can still have a WP.com free site that links to the self-hosted WP.org-based domain. There is nothing in their TOS that says you cannot have a WP.com site that links to your own self-hosted WP.org based domain. As long as you are not breaking their TOS it will be fine. Just don't try building out 50 free WP.com sites to point to your one self-hosted WP.org-based domain. THAT might raise a few eyebrows.
     
    Canonical, Jul 19, 2010 IP
  5. bangdent

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    i use wordpress.org. the best
     
    bangdent, Jul 26, 2010 IP
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    to me, selfhosted wordpress, wordpress.org, more benefits and we can do whatever we want with our blogs, which is important.
     
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  7. genji

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    Self-hosted ftw.. I started my first blog as a WordPress.com site but after 10 minutes I noticed that it was a waste of time because I couldn't monetize it :p

    btw if you need any help developing your website, feel free to post a job ad on my wordpress job board: wp-jobs.com
     
    genji, Jul 26, 2010 IP