Welcome to Free Blogging

At time of writing WordPress is the number one blogging platform with 3.7  million new users, 2.9 million new blogs and 9.4 billion page views in 2008 at wordpress.com

Not only do Automattic, WordPress’s creators, provide great blogging software they also provide free hosting for your blog which would normally cost you around $5 to $10 a month.

Why do they do this?

They do get something in return.

Assuming you maintain your blog and publish regularly then they get more traffic to their domain wordpress.com.

However, it is not clear how Automattic plan to monetize the traffic. So far they have resisted putting advertising on the site.

Their plan might be sell up in the future to Yahoo, Microsoft or Google for a few hundred million but for now they are concentrating on producing great blogging software.

Their latest innovation is WordPress TV. Check it out.

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