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Hi guys
I have noticed from comments left, that people have named their blogs .com ie joe blogs.com…..how come mine says word press.com…..I do love the word press in the title, but how do I get it with just sharonharvey.com please?
Also…..I also noticed on my site, apart from my blog, I can add another one…..cant work out if this would be free or if I would have to pay, and once again, I am sure I have seen people with more than one blog.
I am wondering therefore if apart from blogs, you could build your own website here…?
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What you are wondering about— to have a YOUR_NAME.COM blog— is explained here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/And yes, you can have a second free blog:
http://en.wordpress.com/signup/You can make a website here: a blog is really a website!!
But if you are asking if wp.com can be used to make a site with only pages
as a traditional non-blog website would be, then yes you can also. -
hiya,
Thanks for that, I shall take a look at those links :D, before I do, am I only allowed one second free blog or any amount?
Yeah sorry, I keep forgetting that blogs are websites – I am not used to either, to be honest, but loving this one so far…..only having to get used to the settings and also how to do things!
As for your last paragraph…..not sure…..because not sure what you are saying….LOL I shall have to think about that one further!
Thanks for the information though! xx
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<blockqyote> am I only allowed one second free blog or any amount?</blocquote>
There is no limit. You may create as many as you need.
I am wondering therefore if apart from blogs, you could build your own website here…?
Blogs have only one page for posts that will automatically update after each new post is published and place that post on top.
You can create as many static pages as you like but every one of them will require editing in order to add new information to it. You can even assign another page as your static front page and cripple your blog so it gets no backlinks, next to no Google juice, and you compromise its ability to achieve a PageRank by making it into a mock website.
The vast and overwhelming amount of Google juice goes to posts because that’s the way blogs are designed and how they function. The most Google juice of all goes to the front page of a blog, because blogs are structured in reverse chronological order, and search engines are programmed to locate dynamic content on the front page. Change that and you have upset the applecart, so to speak.
(1) Blogs provide for inline commenting as they are aimed at engaging readers in discussion – websites don’t;
(2) Blogs have RSS feeds so subscribers can be immediately updated following publication of new posts – websites don’t;
(3) Blogs have Google juice and PageRanks – websites don’t .
Many “bloggers” are setting up their blogs to emulate websites by creating static front pages and reordering their blogs to rely on a static Page structure. Well, that results in defeating the purposes of having a blog. Pages cannot have categories and tags assigned to them and they have very little Google juice. I have discovered that many of the folks doing this have no clue as to what the affects of their restructuring has including disabling their blog’s ability to achieve any Google juice flowing in or out, and disabling their blog’s ability to achieve a PageRank.
So the bottom line is that if you want a mock website you can structure one using any wordpress.com theme. In the Invove theme and in the Monotone theme you can choose to use the feature that allows you to place Categories across the top menu where static Pages are normally found. In other themes there is a “trick” that ca be used to achieve the same thing http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/page-tabs-as-external-links/ But you cannot change the fact that only one page for posts will automatically update when you publish a new post.
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