So, why would someone move their blog immediately after starting it? I mean, I only had that other one up for a week or two. And why would you move from something that’s as easy to use as blogger, to something you have to host yourself and be something of a geek to use?
Well, like I said in the transition post yesterday, I’m trying to learn Web 2.0, Social Bookmarking and Social Networking. Specifically, I’m trying to learn these items as they relate to running a business on the Internet. The only way I know of learning this stuff is by setting it all up and doing it.
So, so far, I’m using WordPress 2.3 with a few plug-ins that all the pros say I have to have:
- Askimet - Prevents comment spam.
- All in One SEO Pack - re-arranges titles and things so the search engines have a better idea of what each page is about.
- Social Bookmarks - puts that block of images at the bottom to encourage people to book mark the post in their favorite social bookmarking site.
- What Would Set Godin Do - Encourages you to subscribe to the blog the first three times you come.
- Wordbook - allows the post I put up here to notify my Facebook account that I have a new post, which then tells all my friends that I’ve posted something.
And of course, I’ve added some additional javascript that will allow me to
- use Google Analytics to see how many visitors I’m getting and how they found my site
- hyper link word to Amazon books
- and put Google Adsense at the top of each post.
So, welcome to my test bed.
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