wordpress.com vs .org

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Hey guys, I have recently had a blog on wordpress for a while and paid for a domain name through wordpress. I want to start generating some income off of my blog because I am getting a steady traffic stream of 100-150 (repeat and new) users a day to my site, which is pretty good IMO. I was wondering if i should stick with free hosting that wordpress provides or should i go out and buy hosting from hostgator etc... will having a website/ blog with no seo otimizations plugins, no allowed ads hinder my progress ?

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  • Wordpress.com is good for traffic, but if you wish to have branding, more powerful customization and more control over your blog. Move to a self-hosted package.
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    • thanks for the quick reply str!
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      That makes wordpress.com out of the question for you: any form of monetization is contrary to their terms of service, and if you try to do that there, your blog will be removed as soon as a staff members sees it or anyone "reports" it. Whether you're using your own domain-name for it or not.

      You can't use wordpress.com hosting for anything monetized in any way, and it's as simple as that.

      Where do people get this stuff from?! The fact that wordpress.com's site has floods of traffic, collectively, doesn't mean that any of it's visiting your blog any more than it would if you had it hosted somewhere else - it isn't your traffic and it doesn't help you at all. You might just as well say that someone with whom your site shares a server at Hostgator has tons of traffic: it has nothing to do with your site at all.
  • Very simple answer:

    WordPress.org provides you with the WordPress software which you can use with any hosting company. WordPress.com is a hosting company that just hosts WordPress websites and installs it for you automatically.

    While WordPress.com websites do tend to rank high by default, you also don't have nearly as much control over changing designs and installing plugins.
  • If you plan to keep the site in the long run with all customization and tweaks at your sole discretion then choose the self-hosted Wordpress blog (.org). If you feel you have the traffic because of the quality content you have and not just because its included in the circle of WordPress.com blogs, then sits time to make serious money and invest in a self-hosted one.
  • You cannot control what you do not own. Stick to your own WP, and use .com to build backlinks. Your site on Wordpress.com can get flagged for any stupid reason, and you can lose it without notice.
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  • I personally prefer the flexibility that comes with hosting Wordpress on my own server. I think if you can code, then self hosted is definitely the way to go as you can basically build whatever you want.
  • Is time stopping you from having two blogs or something, Niches are funny in that you can have multiple websites with a little different content and still get visitors to all. I still have my anglefire account from, oh well so many years i forgot or is it tripod. Time flys doesnt it.
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    wordpress.com vs .org

    Hey guys, I have recently had a blog on wordpress for a while and paid for a domain name through wordpress. I want to start generating some income off of my blog because I am getting a steady traffic stream of 100-150 (repeat and new) users a day to my site, which is pretty good IMO. I was wondering if i should stick with free hosting that wordpress provides or should i go out and buy hosting from hostgator etc... will having a website/ blog with no seo otimizations plugins, no allowed ads hinder my progress ? thanks.