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Dan Carmichael

9 Years Ago

Self-hosted Blog Or Blogger.com ???

To promote your work do you blog on a self-hosted wordpress blog (your own domain, not wordpress.com), or blogger.com or both?

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David Gordon

9 Years Ago

I blog on my self-hosted WP powered personal site. I also copy/paste the blog to my blogger.com, my FAA blog and a blog I have on a free Weebly site.

Dave Gordon
http://dgportfolio.net

 

Bill Tomsa

9 Years Ago



I haven't been as commited to blogging as some bloggers, but recently have been listing ideas to blog about. I'm interested in hearing from those who are more involved with blogging.

Bill Tomsa

http://billtomsa.blogspot.com/

 

David King

9 Years Ago

I use Blogger.

http://davidkingstudio.blogspot.com

 

Ted Raynor

9 Years Ago

Blogger. It's Google's own product and their search engine loves it.

http://tedraynorphotos.blogspot.com/

 

Jeff Folger

9 Years Ago

Blogger looks like,... well blogger.. I know, I have one. Self hosted is or can be more professional.. besides you are creating your brand so you want to have your blog re-enforce that where ever some searches for you. My stock and fine art site is www.vistaphotography.com and I had to pay for that (also .net)


David G.
http://jeff-foliage.com is my blog and website... you may notice I only have a 2 page rank and I believe it's because I had many of my scenic drive articles on http://www.new-england-foliage.com I did do 301 redirects to jeff-foliage.com but my ranking went from 4 to 2 so I would think twice about posting the same article on two different websites. The same goes to those who copy a page from wikipedia (word for word) as your description. Google gives the authority to wikipedia and your image and probably FAA gets dinged in the rankings.

Google hates duplicate content...
read about it here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en

 

Dan Carmichael

9 Years Ago

Jeff,

Good write up. Why I asked the question. Self-hosted looks more professional, but as pointed out, blogger is google and I would assume as aggressive as google is, google gives blogger preference.

I have always wondered to what degree copy needs to be changed to not be classified as duplicate content. A word or two here. A re-structured sentence there. I wonder if small syntax changes avoids the penalty or if things have to be substantially re-written.

 

Suzanne Powers

9 Years Ago

WordPress has better SEO than Blogger, the web crawlers do better probably because it is owned by the bloggers. I have been on Blogger and at some point will change to WP. Most who want the best SEO will go with the Wordpress.com not the free version, you are not supposed to run a business from that platform, it is not as flexible.

 

Edward Fielding

9 Years Ago

Wordpress - looks better and has better SEO and add on tools.

 

Dan Turner

9 Years Ago

" I wonder if small syntax changes avoids the penalty or if things have to be substantially re-written."

There's no need to wonder; here's what you do to be sure:

1) Run your article through Copyscape
http://www.copyscape.com/
It will alert you of any duplicate content and link you to the source(s).

2) Post your modified content elsewhere and see if it finds it. If yes, it's not modified enough and is classified as duplicate content.

3) You can further modify your duplicate content by hand OR run it through "spinner" software, which will automatically rewrite it in an instant. There are several (Google "copy spinner"); some lightly rewrite, others can be set to heavily rewrite. In any case, small human adjustments are always needed to correct syntax.

4) Check your new rewrite with Copyscape again. If you're clean with them, you're clean with Google.



Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

 

Dan Carmichael

9 Years Ago

Dan,

Thank you. Very useful info. I had no idea those things existed, and will try them out.

The only question I would have is the trust level of copyscape. This would be based on knowledge that google has always been horrendously protective of their engine algorithms. Still, even if slightly flawed a potentially very useful tool. Again, thanks.

 

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