Comments on: Big Mistake: Hosting Your Business Blog on a Hosted Service

By: Frank C

Frank C — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:54:56 +0000

I think it's a good idea for a business to go ahead and get the Blogger and WordPress.com subdomains if they're available just to protect their brand to some degree. I agree that they wouldn't want to use it as a primary blog but they can be used to funnel traffic to the main, self-hosted, company blog. Frank C´s last blog post..Dazzle Video Creator Platinum Review

By: David Peralty

David Peralty — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:58:30 +0000

Kevin – That’s exactly what I meant. Though with some services, like WordPress.com it is like $20, but still well worth it to hide the fact that you are using a free service, though at that point, I don’t see why they don’t go the next step and switch over to using the WordPress.org software, especially if they are already hosting the rest of their site somewhere else.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:47:51 +0000

What I hate are businesses/people that are trying to use a free service (blogger, wordpress or others) as a professional marketing tool. When you see “businessname.blogsport.com” or”businessname.wordpress.com” it makes you wonder about the company. At the very least you think that they would invest in the $10.00 for a specific domain name to hide this.

I know its not exactly what you were getting at but I think it has to do with things along the same line.

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:03:14 +0000

I totally agree with this. Did you know that the massively popular site FiveThirtyEight ran into major problems the last week of the election because it was blogger hosted? Ryan´s last blog post..4 Great Family Resorts

By: John Townsend

John Townsend — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:35:12 +0000

Highly risky too. If you get traction and bandwidth others will try to knock you off. No one cares until you start to make an impact. Once you do - watch out! I've heard horror stories of people losing their blog because their blog address was used in spam John Townsend´s last blog post..Chattanooga Real Estate Today Launches a New Blog

By: Phyl

Phyl — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:13:22 +0000

I realized this the week after WordCamp, when I discovered I couldn’t put my Google Adsense thingie in the margin of my blog on WordPress.com. I knew I’d need my own expanded website eventually, but didn’t realize it would be sooner rather than later. So I’m working at getting something set up elsewhere.

Lots of small details you just don’t know at the beginning.