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An honest opinion? Wordpress.org.

Wordpress.com has various pro’s and con’s of which will be covered in this post. Many of the negatives of wordpress.com do not exist when you choose wordpress.org as your solution.

In a nutshell, wordpress.com is a hosted solution wheras wordpress.org is a blog you own, you install and you run on your own hosting.

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A largely missed concept with webmasters is how to use 301 redirects.   They are the only safe SEO redirect.

With regards to SEO and the duplicate content penalty, you should redirect all non www requests on your domain to www unless there is a special case where this is required for site functionality.   This means…

http://tdcreative.net is 301′ed to http://www.tdcreative.net
http://tdcreative.net/my-post is 301′ed to http://www.tdcreative.net/my-post

Any person involved with SEO should know this and it can be achieved with a few lines of .htaccess code placed in the public root of your FTP, sometimes public_html or httpdocs.  An example….

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^your-domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.your-domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Simply add this code to the top of your .htaccess file.

Very simple, very effective.

This post is about how to write decent Wordpress articles. This blog may not be the perfect example of decent articles, mainly because this is a personal blog which I dabble with here and there, but here it goes anyway…
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With modern web advances, the opinions written in the ‘free phpbb forum hosting‘ post some time ago are somewhat changing.  With the relatively recent release of phpBB3 - “Olympus” - free phpbb forum hosting has started to become really quite impressive.

An example of this is: phpbb-forum-host.com - free phpbb forum host.

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Creating a powerful, interactive, usefull website can be difficult. However, the open source combination that has been proven to be a success is that of phpBB + Wordpress. What are they? Well… a short description is below…oh - both software packages are free too…and for those “techies” out there, they run using a mySQL database and PHP scripting.

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