Will Your Blog be Deleted?
You’ve built up a successful MLM network marketing and home based business for yourself, but all the hard work you’ve put into your blog is now…gone?!
A slightly disturbing fact came up the other day… Something I was totally unaware of that could have some potential serious ramifications! The question came up, “Do you own your blog?” Re-phrased, do you “host” your own blog, or, as most of us do, are you simply “using” a blog from a blog website? Recently, I discovered I was in the latter group and to my horror, I found out that at any time, on any day, if the owners of my blog deemed that for any reason, whatsoever, my content was inappropriate, ZAP! My blog could disappear in the click of a mouse.
It’s absolutely true! If you’re not personally hosting your own blog, you stand the chance (albeit a very minute chance - but a chance just the same) at having your blog deleted. All of your hard work, all of your time invested, all of your followers (your leads!) and their comments, gone. Years and years of work and your number one Google ranking, gone. Did someone at the blog company not like you anymore? Did someone complain? You’ll never know and there’s nothing you’ll be able to do about it. For me, the fact was too much to fathom and the idea that all of my articles and all the help I’ve given to my fellow MLM’ers could disappear was simply inconceivable.
Fortunately, the solution to avoid this potential disaster is fairly simple. Host Gator and Go Daddy offer blog hosting. I was disappointed to hear that the ISP I’ve used for years (1and1.com) does not WordPress blog host and if there are other ISPs out there that do host, my apologies, I just don’t know who you are at the time of this writing. The only catch for hosting your own blog is; just as you would pay for hosting a domain name of your own, you also have to pay for your blog hosting on these ISPs. However, perhaps your peace of mind is worth about $60 a year… Host Gator and Go Daddy both offer Fantastico; an easy to use auto-installer for WordPress style blogs.
What’s key about this, is WordPress style blogs offer you a myriad of amazing plugin features that strangely enough, don’t show up via their own website. That is, when you sign up at the WordPress.com website for one of their .com blogs, you are not allowed to add any plugin features to your blog. But, when you host your own blog using a WordPress style blog, you can add as many as you would like. Interesting…
It’s these plugin features that truly make the monthly/yearly expense worthwhile. A few plugins I found out about include auto-responding, delayed thank you note style auto-responding, multi-site plugins, Twitter updater, Digg This, social networking plugins, the list goes on and on.
Obviously, the power of blogging is just that, powerful. Creating a blog following is just as important as having a large social network following in terms of your business and the larger your crowd, the more attention it receives from those who have advertising dollars and those who want to open their wallets. The affiliate link possibilities are endless, the business exposure is grand (and FREE!) and most importantly, your peace of mind remains intact.
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