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Q: Where is the best place to go to start up a new affiliate blog?
A: My favorite content management system to power blogs is WordPress.
There are a variety of options out there, including hosted options like Blogger, TypePad, and WordPress.com, as well as software you can install on your server, such as MovableType and WordPress.
I’ve used many of the available solutions over the years, and I’ve settled on WordPress installed on my server as my favorite.
My copies of WordPress are all hosted at LivingDot, where they will install and update it for you at no extra cost.
The cost there is $9 or $10 a month and they provide excellent support.
Anyhow, some things I like about WordPress include the ability to easily set up a template, known as a “theme” in WordPress. There are lots of free themes, and then some paid themes, like Revolution, which are sharp looking.
The themes can be customized, and more recent versions include “widget” functionality, where you can drag and drop elements in your blog layout.
Also, plugins enable WordPress users to add all sorts of functionality to the blogs. There is basically a plugin for anything you want to do with your blog, including podcast streaming, stat reporting, spam filtering, and SEO tools.
Best of all, WordPress is free.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Create a Blog Today // Mar 27, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Blogs are a really great way of getting an online presence.
Wordpress is great for the affiliate marketer especially because of all those plug ins you can use
The learning curve is a little bit steeper than using Blogger but a couple of hours should sort it
Incidentally I quite like blogger myself. It is user friendly, has a hand ful of templates and is free.
For the beginner i always recommend blogger.
Step by step guide to blog creation with blogger
2 D. Harris // Mar 28, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Great blog, i even bookmarked it. Its seldom i do that. I found another affiliate marketing blog, looks like crap but some ghetto cat has some really good “free” tactics. Take a look sometimes its at http://googlesitehelp.com Great name also, i would make a domain with that 1 if i were he.
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