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September 22, 2024September 22, 2024

Landing Back on WordPress.com, Compliments of Jetpack

Posted By: Paul 2452 Views 4 Comments Blogging, WordPress

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.

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May 23, 2023September 1, 2024

Avoid This Disastrous Redirect “301” Problem for SEO

Posted By: Paul 652 Views 0 Comment WordPress

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.

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November 25, 2022September 1, 2024

How Important is Google to Driving Website Traffic? A Graph Shows

Posted By: Paul 926 Views 0 Comment WordPress

What is Google’s importance to website traffic? Based on my #blog experience, it is the only importance. Google drives most of my traffic.

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November 20, 2022September 1, 2024

Reserving My Cloud Server with Digital Ocean

Posted By: Paul 712 Views 0 Comment WordPress

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.

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Technology 
August 30, 2022September 2, 2024

How Much Does It Cost to Host My Blog?

Posted By: Paul 1042 Views 0 Comment WordPress

How much does it cost to host a blog? If you truly want control as a content creator, you will need to pay.

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May 7, 2022September 2, 2024

How I Set Up My Website’s Hostname / DNS

Posted By: Paul 650 Views 0 Comment WordPress

An early setup task for my blog was registering and configuring my domain. This article explains the key steps.

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Technology 
March 3, 2022September 2, 2024

Choosing Between Ghost.org and Self-Hosting

Posted By: Paul 792 Views 0 Comment WordPress

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.

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Technology 
January 29, 2022September 2, 2024

Why Did I Self Host My Blog?

Posted By: Paul 1032 Views 0 Comment WordPress

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.

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Technology 
January 1, 2022September 2, 2024

How I Set Up My Website & Blog – The Complete Outline

Posted By: Paul 905 Views 0 Comment WordPress

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.

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Technology 
November 15, 2021September 2, 2024

Why I Chose Ghost Over WordPress for my Blog

Posted By: Paul 1034 Views 0 Comment WordPress

After being a longtime WordPress user, I decided to host my personal blog using Ghost. Did I make the right decision?

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