Comments on: How Switching To WordPress More Than Tripled My Blog Views

By: jessicaslaughter

jessicaslaughter — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:51:21 +0000

Of course! That post has been on my mind for a while, so I’ll add it to my schedule! :)

By: Aubrey

Aubrey — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 04:03:57 +0000

Hello, do you mind sharing a step by step tutorial on how you went about switching from Blogger to WordPress?

I’m thinking about switching to WordPress from Blogger but I don’t know where to start :S

By: Ashley Evans

Ashley Evans — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:03:00 +0000

If your friend is making you a custom WP theme from scratch, you physically cannot use that on WordPress.com. On WordPress.com you can only use the themes they provide for you. You cannot upload your own custom one.

You have to go “self hosted” instead. It’s still WordPress, but instead of putting your site on the free WordPress.com platform (whether or not you pay for “premium” on WP.com is irrelevant here) you pay a hosting company like Bluehost to store your content for you. That means paying to rent hosting space and install the full WordPress platform there.

That’s the only way to get the unrestricted version of WordPress.

By: Jessica Slaughter

Jessica Slaughter — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 20:14:00 +0000

No, I’ve never actually used WordPress.com, so I just use the WordPress platform and host my website on Bluehost!

By: Erin Toews

Erin Toews — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 20:04:00 +0000

Did you use WordPress.com Premium? Or what?

By: Jessica Slaughter

Jessica Slaughter — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 18:01:00 +0000

Thanks Madison! I think navigation definitely played a huge part in my increase too, even adding the “related posts” at the bottom of my content has helped a ton! :)

By: Jessica Slaughter

Jessica Slaughter — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 18:00:00 +0000

Thank you!! It’s such an exciting time, and I hope the trend continues! :)

By: Erin Toews

Erin Toews — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:34:00 +0000

My friend is going to make me a WP theme. Are you saying I shouldn’t go with Premium? What should I do instead?

By: Madison

Madison — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:12:00 +0000

This is so awesome! I definitely experienced the same thing when switching to WP which I think had a lot to do with truncating my posts and having better navigation for users to engage with more than one page at time, which helped a ton! Congrats girl, you’re doing an awesome job :)

By: Ashley Evans

Ashley Evans — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:41:00 +0000

Congratulations on your higher page views! :D I hope you see your blog continue to grow. Just keep posting quality content and you’ll see those numbers climb even higher. :)