The Mortgage and More Blog

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Many of you that have followed me over the last two years might remember that when I first broke into blogging, I was a manager for a mortgage company. I originally started blogging on ActiveRain as The Mortgage & More Guy and soon converted my blog name to The Mortgage & More Blog. It did not take me long to know that I needed to grow my presence and that is when I gave birth to The Mortgage & More Blog. Just so you know a time line, the site was born in April of 2008.

I originally turned to Blogger, which was a free platform through Google. I went there thinking that because it was tied to Google, I would be able to garner more Google Juice. Boy, was I dead wrong. It did not take me long to realize that this was the wrong platform. I soon started looking for a platform that I could expand on.

This is when I found Wordpress. Many people do not realize that Wordpress comes in two flavors; Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org . If you want to get techinical, there is also MU.Wordpress.org , in which Positive Real Estate Professionals is actually built on. I won’t get into that as it is a bird of a different color. The big difference between the .com and the .org is that .com host your site for you and there are many restrictions. The .org does not host the site for you and there are few limitations. In my estimation, .org and the MU platform might be the best content management system on the market today in terms of what it can do for you.

Now, let’s get back on track. I originally went with the .com version. However, it did not take me long to know that it was not the right version and I soon mover to the .org version. Since that point and time, I have been able to increase my web presence with little effort. The tools that this platform offers is extremely powerful. With that said, the people that still follow me know that I left the mortgage industry last year to follow a dream. Since that time, I have tried to keep this site going, but it has been difficult. I have since automated the site to pull my articles from PREP.

With the time running near for the site to renew, I have decided to sale it off. With that said, if you are interested in purchasing the site and all the content on the site, then we need to talk. The site is established and still has a following. It is generating about 200 hits a day at this point. If you want to discuss this, you can call our office @ 865-951-0522 or email me.

Over the last year or so, I have maintained my blogger site known as The Mortgage and More Blog. As of last night, I decided that blogger could no longer provide me with what I wanted. I have worked hard to maintain this blog and after 371 post, I was not ready to call it quits. So, I decided that I would take the domain name, all the articles, all the comments, and go play somewhere else. As of this morning, my site is once again active and running. However, this time it is based on the wordpress platform and currently being hosted on host monster.

I am so much more keen to the look and feel of the wordpress themes as opposed to the blogger themes. With that said, I am more impressed that the site just seems to function so much better on the new platform.