For the first time in my 7 years of blogging, my personal blog [this one] has a higher Alexa ranking and is getting more traffic than my business blog. A couple of datapoints…
- http://toddlohenry.com is hosted at WordPress.com; http://e1evation.com is a hosted WordPress site currently hosted on HostGator
- I use the same blogging workflow — the ‘e1evation workflow‘ — for both sites
- I have posted more frequently to my person blog of late [the grass is greener where you water it?]
You can read more about the different version of WordPress here. My conclusion? WordPress.com is a very powerful and viable platform for ‘thought leadership‘ marketing. Why mess with the hosted version unless you really need a feature that WordPress.com doesn’t offer? WordPress is “good, fast, and cheap”…
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- WordPress: Phenomenal Growth (onecoolsitebloggingtips.com)
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- WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org (bradyszabo.com)
- Zemanta Power User: Todd Lohenry, e1evation – Part 1 of 2 (zemanta.com)
Bright, shiny objects! 
What do you think?