Godaddy custom .com names and hosting for WordPress
Go Daddy.com is the company I have used for all of my domain names purchased to date. I decided early on that I wanted full control of my website and that buying my own site name(s) was the way to go for me. You may want buy your own .com name for your WordPress website, or buy name and have your website transferred to your own .com name on a Wordpress website. How do you know this is right for you?
Well, you should know it doesn’t cost much, roughly $7 US dollars for one dot com name for a one year period. You will also need to buy hosting, which can go for anywhere between 6 - 200+ dollars a month, depending on your needs. I have been using Host Gator for my needs and to date they have been fine. I have heard a lot of stories about different servers having problems, but if you are only doing (up to several) basic WordPress blogs (mostly text with occasional photo or embedded video) Host Gator will be fine. I have had up to 20 sites going on my baby package with them and still had lots of bandwidth and hard drive space remaining (and I had several thousand photos online). My hosting package is only $10 US a month.
My cost for a .com name, and a host for 1 year is about $130 US. A typical blog with about 100 - 200 visitors a day should be able to make this money using Google Adsense alone. If your site makes more money than your costs, then you are taking your first step towards professional blogging or earning money for doing something that you are passionate about. It is a nice concept right?
What are the advantages of hosting your own blog and having your own name? First of all, it is yours! You can do whatever you wish with it. You can tweak, pull, prod, and poke all aspects of web design on your own. You can get a dot com name with the right keywords for your site and get a head start on your site’s SEO. Using Wordpress, you can use any theme or any plugin you wish, and cut or add any piece of code you would like. You are only limited by your own ability, and there are so many sites these days that are made to help WordPress users succeed! (This is site is a GOOD example of this 
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A typical blog will need the minimum hosting package, but if you do a lot of video or photography and wish to host the files yourself you may need a larger hosting package.
Clear Cut Blogging is as transparent as can be, as I have posted and will continue to post all of my stats and post about all of the things I am doing to create a powerful WordPress blog. As such, I figured it was about time to post about some of the basics of creating YOUR own blog, and helping your carve out a piece of the newest real estate boom; dot com names on the Internet.
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