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How to create your own self-hosted WordPress blog for only $1!

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If you’ve ever wanted to have your own self-hosted WordPress blog, right now is a perfect time to get started.

Right now Godaddy and Hostgator are running special deals that will allow you to register your own domain name AND get your first month of web hosting from one of the best web hosts in the business for a grand total of just $1.00!

There are several options for creating a blog for free, but regardless of which free blogging platform you choose you’ll be very limited in regards to what you can and cannot do with your blog (such as customize your blog and/or make money from it).

By purchasing your own domain name and inexpensive web hosting plan, you can rest assured that you’ll be able to do anything you want with your blog!

It’s easy to create your own self-hosted WordPress blog for only $1.00. First, lets snag a domain name for 99 cents! Here’s how:  [Read more…]

Q&A: Which web hosting company hosts your Rick’s Daily Tips tech blog?

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inmotion HostingNote: The links in this post are affiliate links.

Question from Kate L.:  I really love your blog Rick. I’ve learned so much since I started reading your tips a while back!

I have a question that I hope you won’t mind answering for me but I’ll understand if you’d rather not.

I’ve been blogging for about 2 years and my blog has really slowed down a lot over the last few months.

I did some research and read that WordPress gets slower as a blog’s traffic levels increase.

That has me thinking the slowdown is probably due to my blog’s traffic more than doubling to a little over 4,000 visitors a day about the same time things slowed to a crawl.

I’m pretty sure I need to move my blog to a new web host with faster servers. I noticed that your pages load really fast even though your site obviously gets a lot more visitors than mine.

Would you mind telling me which hosting company is hosting RicksDailyTips?

Rick’s answer:   [Read more…]

Has your blog’s email server been ‘blacklisted’? Find out right now.

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If you’re a blogger you probably depend on email to communicate with your readers, your advertisers and any other folks that you talk to in the course of writing and managing your blog.

And chances are you even use email to deliver an informational newsletter to your subscribers.

If you’ve noticed that many (or even most) of your emails are being ignored, there’s a good chance that your email server has somehow landed in an email blacklist database.  [Read more…]

Q&A: If you could only use one plugin on your WordPress blog, which one would it be?

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Question from Freida:  I have a simple question about setting up a blog with WordPress.

If you could only use ONE plugin on your blog for some reason, which plugin would that be?

There are thousands of WordPress plugins out there and I don’t even know where to start in choosing the ones I need to install on my blog.

Thanks in advance for your answer, Rick.

Rick’s answer:  [Read more…]

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