Why Get Paid Blog Hosting ? – Part 2
I will continue with my previous post on the reasons to get and not to get paid hosting for your blog. Read bellow for the continuation.
Will my own domain gain me more users?
In many cases people just want to move becuase they believe their own domain will "make them better bloggers" or make "more visitors". This can be true, i wont deny it, however it is not really guaranteed to happen like this.
Infact it can have the opposite effect. You may want to "make a return" on your investments on hosting that you will just post anything to make sure you have posts (I have done it myself).
A good domain name is memorable so people may return over and over. But content is just as important. People will search hard if they know the content is good so if your members are high already it may be a good move to go private.
Support Adgitize
2010 looked set to be another memorable year for Adgitize, so far not for the reasons Ken and the team had hoped for.
for those of you who dont know Adgitize recently suffered almost 4 days of continuous downtime and when the site finally came back online users got less than 24 hours of access before the site dropped offline for another day or so.
Every new creation suffers problems and this is just one of Adgitizes problems, a problem which is being overcome and will most likely never happen again. For a small sized company such as Adgitize it takes longer to solve issues which take large companies, such as Google, to fix.
These small issues should not be looked at as "issues" or "problems" of the program but more of a learning exercise for Adgitize, perhaps even for yourself as you may come across a similar issue in the future. These learning exercises help to improve Adgitize and make it a much stronger and secure system for the future.
AdgiScore – New From Adgitize
As always Adgitize is working hard behind the scenes and giving us many new services. Now they have a system to allow you to compare your traffic to other members of Adgitize.
I am happy to announce a new service that we are launching. The AdgiScore and Traffic Rating are now available. Go to AdgiScore.
What is the AdgiScore and the Adgitize Traffic Rating? Well, let’s start with the Adgitize Traffic Rating. The Traffic Rating is our ranking of all active publishers by the amount of traffic (page views) they receive. The goal is to give information on how much traffic a blog receives. If you have a couple of blogs you would like to advertise on you can check out their Adgitize Traffic Rating and have another check on where to spend your hard earned money.
Coming In 2010
Already in 2010 we are putting together plans for our posting throughout the year. We have some pretty major plans for this year and a number of partnerships will hopefully be formed over the next one or two months.
Everything we have planned is to try and make LM-BLOG one of the best resources of information on the latest internet developments. With a look at trying all new Blog services and Advertising systems, where possible, we will hopefully provide a mass of help to everyone.
This year more than ever we are going to give our visitors a say in what we publish. From this point onwards you can ask us to review a website, give advice on technology or advertising. Or really anything you want. Where possible we will publish all requests.
YouTube video leads to Hollywood contract
A producer from Uruguay who uploaded a short film to YouTube in November 2009 has been offered a $30m (£18.6m) contract to make a Hollywood film.
The movie will be sponsored by director Sam Raimi, whose credits include the Spiderman and Evil Dead films.
Fede Alvarez's short film "Ataque de Panico!" (Panic Attack!) featured giant robots invading and destroying Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.
It is 4 mins 48 seconds long and was made on a budget of $300 (£186).
So far it has had more than 1.5 million views on YouTube.
"I uploaded (Panic Attack!) on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of e-mails from Hollywood studios," he told the BBC's Latin American service BBC Mundo.
"It was amazing, we were all shocked."