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If you are My Reader, you would be knowing that, Blog of Ur Interest (http://binterest.com) was previously hosted on the Blogspot and now shifted to the wordpress. Major Reasons to shift from the Google Blogspot to the Self Hosted Wordpress are Many., to name the few includes :

Advantages :

1. Delete Blog : You never have to worry that Blogger.com is going to delete your blog from their system. They even deleted their own blog once…
2. Domain Name : Domain Name makes look your blog more professional. Example http://yourdomain.blogspot.com to http://yourdomain.com.>
3. More Control : More control over the blog, as you are the owner of the Blog. For Example, you can have a complete control over the url of the different pages and post like about.yourdomain.com or forum.yourdomain.com and etc.,
4. Plugins : Plugins are the Most Important Part of the Self Hosted Wordpress Blog, which provides you with thousands and thousands of resources which makes your blog a perfect combination of blog and a Web Site. Even Provides Option which makes your Blog look and feel more professional Touch.
5. Comprehensive URL : More Comprehensive Post and Page URL. For Example : http://yourdomain.blogspot.com/2009/01/reasons-to-shift-from/ to http://yourdomain.com/reasons-to-shift-your-blog-from-blogspot-to-self-hosted-wordpress/
6. Pages : You can have a specify pages with a different layout and design and not the posts. Example : About Page providing the information about the Website, RSS Subscribe Page giving away the details for the Readers to get updates and Even the Contact Us Page : Though which a Readers can contact the Web masters.
7. Categories : It’s very important to keep your articles separated and in predefined Groups or so called Categories, that makes the Web sites and Readers of the Website more comfortable. For Example : If you a posting on the Tech Blog, you should divide your Posts in to the Categories like Windows, Vista, XP, Tips & Tricks and Even Categories based on the Level of Expertise required for a Post to implement.
8. Name of Files : Making you .htaccess writable will offer you the possibility to have almost any file name you want for your WP postings. In B. the format is static and has to include the date of the posting in the path of the file
9. Tracking Visitors : You don’t have to Use the Third Party Softwares or Paid Version of the Tracking System for your Visitor Tracks. Wordpress Self Hosted is available with this Version, which makes you know more about your readers and location. A full site stats package comes with your hosting account. You will know exactly how many unique visitors you get each month, where your traffic is coming from, and how well you are doing in the major search engines.
10. Team Blogs : With Wordpress Self Host, you can get your Friends and Relative to post their Ideas as Administrator, Editors, Authors and Contributors as compare to Blogspot where all the Members are given the rights as Administrator.
11. Look & Feel : With Wordpress Hosted, you can get thousands and thousands of Professional Themes for your blog, which makes your look of blog more Professional Plus Clean, Net and Good Looking along with easy readable, without getting confused with bloggers codes.
12. If you have some money at your disposal , a good template , a good hosting and full control over your content are the main reasons your should choose wordpress over blogger.
    

In short, If you are posting on the regular basis and need to continue as a blogger in this world of Blogs, then, you should be blogging on the Self Hosted Wordpress blog, due to the above reasons and have a full control over your blog rather then having third party like Google to delete your blog with out your premission.

Future reading includes :

• Full Process : How to Shift Blogspot to Self Hosted Wordpress
• Full Process : Installing the Wordpress on Self Host.
• Must Have Wordpress Plugins for your Blog.
• and Many More., Stay Tuned to B Interest (Blog of Ur Interest)

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