Feb
Guide to move wordpress.com blog to paid hosting -
If you have a wordpress.com blog you know you can not use any advertising programs on it to make money online. I guess I can’t blame them since it is a free blog.
You can use wordpress.org to make money on your blog, but you need to have a paid hosting service.
You can get a basic hosting plan at GoDaddy.com for about $4.29 a month (or cheaper for 12, 24 or 36 month plan). Unless your blog is HUGE, start out with a basic plan and upgrade when you are ready. You could even cover the cost using Google adsense and other advertising on your hosted blog.
I had a difficult time finding a tutorial on moving the blog. I knew it couldn’t be that difficult. So after piecing together the steps, I decided to create my own tutorial on how to move your free blog (wordpress.com) to a hosting plan.
Since I already owned the domain name of uponmainstreet.com (that was also my blog name), I checked into the domain mapping process that is available through wordpress.com. But after researching in forums on wordpress, I found out that wordpress.com still controlled my blog (it is a redirect to your domain name), and I still would not have the control over the blog that I wanted to.
No, it is not difficult to do, but to make it easier reading, I broke the instructions down into 3 steps.
Here is step 1 - Moving your wordpress.com blog to paid hosting
The other 2 steps are in the same location.
If your web hosting company is on the ball, you can have everything at your new “home” up and running within 24-48 hours (if not sooner).
Once you have moved everything to your paid webhosting, you will be able to use all the plugins and create the blog the way to want.
