Five Great Reasons to Host Your Own WordPress Blog

Are you considering starting your own blog? You may wonder whether you should:

* go with a blogging service that’s hosted on another server where you get a subdomain like yourbusiness.bloggingsite.com

* put your blog on your own domain and hosting space so your blog is at yourbusiness.com or yourbusiness.com/blog

Here are five great reasons to consider using WordPress on your own domain.

5) You can choose your theme.

There are thousands of free themes available for WordPress and you can only use them if you host your own WordPress blog. Just Google “WordPress theme” and you’ll find many websites offering stylish themes.

With many other blogging services you are limited to only the themes they’ve chosen to allow.

4) You can modify your theme.

With some HTML & CSS knowledge, or the help of your designer or virtual assistant, you can modify a theme to do what you need.

3) You can add any plugins you’d like.

One of my favorite things about WordPress is that there are so many fantastic plugins available. You can choose which work best for you and install anything you’d like on your own blog.

2) You’ll be building links to your own domain.

When you host your blog at a service where your blog is just a subdomain, links to “your” blog are building page rank and links for the main domain, which isn’t yours. Instead, host your own blog, and all those links will be pointed to your domain and helping to boost your domain’s page rank and links.

1) It’s free, but has a great support community.

WordPress is free to download and install. But that doesn’t mean you’re without support. Because it’s such as popular blogging platform there are many forums and sites dedicated to it where you can go to find answers to your questions.