tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33224650.post-66028988343742290092007-11-26T21:07:00.001-05:002007-11-26T21:07:16.259-05:00<p><a href="http://www.ablogaboutnothing.com" target="_blank">A Blog about Nothing</a> is offering an interesting <a href="http://www.ablogaboutnothing.com/50-dollar-blog-challenge/" target="_blank">competition</a>.&#160; You are to describe what you would do with $50 to spend on your blog. For me, that decision is pretty simple: self-hosted Wordpress. I've always held that I would not spend any money on this blog that it didn't earn. Fifty dollars would go a long way towards getting this blog set up the way I would like to have it.</p> <p>First, I would buy a domain name. I still haven't decided exactly what that would be since someone wants almost $30,000 for zybron.com, but I would pick out a decent .com of some sort. In that way, I could begin my slow transition to a self-hosted Wordpress blog. I could set this blogspot to associate with the new domain and give it some time for everyone to make the transition and for me to slowly but surely update all the links that I can that point to the current blogspot address.</p> <p>Next, once most of my traffic is coming in from the new domain name instead of the blogspot address I would want to get a host and set up Wordpress there. I'd get everything moved over to the hosted site and point my new domain there.</p> <p>My final blogspot post would be a simple message letting everyone know that we had moved to the new address and host. I believe $50 would be just about enough to accomplish all of this. If I happened to have anything left over after that, I would probably set up a very cheap ad campaign with Adwords or perhaps find some cheap advertising somewhere else. </p> <p>What would you do with $50 to spend on your blog?</p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:9a5f3995-510c-4eee-804c-ef2d72a5af69" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/blogging/" rel="tag">blogging</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/blog%20contest/" rel="tag">blog contest</a></div> Zybronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10840974925868585839noreply@blogger.com