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Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! HOW TO CHOOSE BETWEEN SELF-HOSTED AND FREE BLOGGING PLATFORMS I had the honor and pleasure of speaking at the Thrive Creative Conference for Bloggers last week in Austin, Texas all about how bloggers can grow their influence and how to monetize their blogs. After my talk on search engine optimization, I had quite a few bloggers come up to me and ask me a variation of this question: I’m on Blogger/SquareSpace/Wix/Weebly/WordPress.com – do I need to move to self-hosted WordPress? I’m so confused… What is self-hosted WordPress? It sounds expensive and intimidating. I really just want to blog, I don’t want to be a web developer. I hear this question a lot, so in this blog post I’m going to break it all down for you and then tell you who I think should be on self-hosted WordP