I have been wandering in the virtual desert for the past three years with my self-hosted blog. Silly me did not realize you can connect into the WordPress.com community via Jetpack.
Tag: WordPress
Avoid This Disastrous Redirect “301” Problem for SEO
When I changed the URL for my website, I made a mistake with the redirect that nearly cost all of my SEO rankings with Google. In this article, I explain the problem and how I fixed it in time.
How Important is Google to Driving Website Traffic? A Graph Shows
What is Google’s importance to website traffic? Based on my #blog experience, it is the only importance. Google drives most of my traffic.
Reserving My Cloud Server with Digital Ocean
This article explains how I created the Digital Ocean droplet that hosts my Ghost blog, part of the series on how I set up my personal blog.
How Much Does It Cost to Host My Blog?
How much does it cost to host a blog? If you truly want control as a content creator, you will need to pay.
How I Set Up My Website’s Hostname / DNS
An early setup task for my blog was registering and configuring my domain. This article explains the key steps.
Choosing Between Ghost.org and Self-Hosting
As part of my series on how I created my website, this article focuses on why I went with self-hosting over a hosting service.
Why Did I Self Host My Blog?
I decided to self host my own blog. But why, and why not go with an established hosting service? In this article I explain my key reasons.
How I Set Up My Website & Blog – The Complete Outline
This is the outline of topics of how I created my own website and blog. I will fill in the outline by linking articles as they are written.
Why I Chose Ghost Over WordPress for my Blog
After being a longtime WordPress user, I decided to host my personal blog using Ghost. Did I make the right decision?