Comments on: WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org – The Definitive Overview for Business

By: Nan

Nan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:06:14 +0000

great article – thank you.

By: Ivan Walsh

Ivan Walsh — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:44:00 +0000

I've done some split testing with Posterous.

I posted the same article to Posterous, various wordpress sites, ezinearticles.com and Blogger as close as poss time way (I mean within 5 min)

When I checked google after a few hours, the Wordpress sites came in first (i.e. at the top), posterous second and then Blogger.

BUT a week or so later Blogger had crept up to #1 and Posterous slipped to #3. I put cross-links within the same article to the central site, so regardless of which site is hit, they all lead back to the same destination.

fwiw - Google doesn’t seem to punish these duplicate articles, though the indexing seems to fluctuate.

By: remarkablogger

remarkablogger — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:08:06 +0000

Thanks for sharing your story. Marketing is not something to “rise above.”
Wow. What a load of bullshit! What people don't realize is that they're
always marketing, they just don't know it—they're either doing it well or
doing it poorly.

By: remarkablogger

remarkablogger — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:08:06 +0000

By: emumbert1

emumbert1 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:16:35 +0000

Early on, I developed a wordpress.com site by mistake. I wasn't paying attention and ended up getting what I deserved, I guess. When I got into their (dot com) forums, I started asking some questions about better ways of marketing. OMG, it was like I blew a stinky in church. These people are pretty hardcore about rising above the world of commerce, and doing something pure like their blogging platform was only for those with a higher calling. I got out of there, got my site transferred back to dot,org and never looked back. They do not like commerce, period.

By: Scott F. Peterson

Scott F. Peterson — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:25:33 +0000

This is a great post Michael. Very helpful! Thanks for some clarification.

By: remarkablogger

remarkablogger — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:14:45 +0000

Talk to your hosting company about this. If you used a free WordPress theme
other than the default, that might be the problem. Free themes often have
links to “bad neighborhoods” on the web.

By: remarkablogger

remarkablogger — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:13:17 +0000

Mark, the biggest factors in WordPress page delivery speeds are hosting and
database calls. Moving to a faster host can help a lot, but getting rid of
excessive calls to the WordPress database probably helps even more. Your
blog's theme and plugins are the culprits, here--especially plugins!

Look into caching and optimization plugins (ironic, I know, but these really
should help) and ditching other plugins that may not be really providing
value.

Glad you found the article useful!

By: Yol

Yol — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:52:09 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the post. I haven't had much luck with Wordpress on my own, though. I have installed it twice on my own host, as part of our web site, and both times my blog was considered a “potential attack site” by Google, as it had obviously been hacked, defeating the purpose of it all. Something to consider… I cannot say if it was one of the plug-ins, or what, but it happened twice. So much work for nothing…

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:39:23 +0000

Mike,

This is a great summary introduction to the differences between .COM and .ORG.

I have self-hosted my blog on my ecommerce site. However, I notice the performance of Wordpress is pretty dismal. Aside from moving to a bigger server, are there any Wordpress settings that I should review to ensure I get the most out of my current server?

Thanks
Mark