But where I do find that it is lacking is in actually providing easy reading access. The current main site comes in two versions; if I have a WP account I go straight to the dashboard, and if I don't have one - I get to a fairly anonymous looking "get started" screen.

http://laperm.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/wpress.jpg

Personally I feel that it might put off potential new users, as it judging from the welcome screen not immediately obvious what wp.com is all about.

It'd be nice to have topics or tag clouds avaiable from the get go.

It sounds to me like your dissatisfaction is pervasive and as you are investing your time in this thread it's a shame that your blogging is on hold as you have so little content in your blog. You may wish to consider hiring a web host and setting up your own self hosted WordPress.org self hosted install.
WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

The main thing here is native WP.COM stats is far from ideal... And it's does not possible to choose counter/tracker by yourself. That's it.

At least it must show which search engine was used to find your page, country, os and browser

While you are waiting there are other third party stats programs we can use that do provide the information you want. Frankly I don't care which OS or browser my visitors are using. I do care to know the countries as I do provide translation on my blog, but in the final analysis as all WordPress.com blogs are quantified I get my metrics from http://quantcast.com
If you are interested in running third party stats then go here and scroll down to "Visitor Tracking" http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/popular-posts/

Google Analytics are not allowed on WordPress.COM hosted blogs.

http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/7-things-to-know-before-posting-in-wordpresscom-forums?replies=1

This site is for support of sites hosted on WordPress.COM. You should address your questions to WordPress.ORG the keepers of the software you are using: http://wordpress.org/support/

For more on the difference: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#additional-info

Thanks & Regards,
Reddy Sekhar.

Please let me be frank. While it is important to have clean theme that has intuitive navigation, a pleasing appearance that appeals to all demographic groups and loads very quickly, do be aware that returning readers do not come back to blogs simply to view themes. The content must be the draw and that's where the majority of your time and attention must be focused.

There are over 100 free themes here and what you have to determine for yourself is where your time, energy, and money are best spent in terms of converting casual visitors into regular readers and subscribers. What will bring in traffic and increase comments? What will increase your regular readers and subscribers? Will your time and energy investment into theme tweaking come anywhere near producing a traffic flow to your blog that investing the same amount of time and energy into content creation, sussing out your competition learning, and applying SEO to your content and images? Will your time and energy be better spent on content creation, blog promotion, social networking, commenting on other blogs and relationship building?

I would like to change the theme of my blog and I checked all the proposed wordpress themes and none of them really interested me. Is there any other solution ?

Thanks for your help !

When one moves blog content to a WordPress.org install that all disappears. All those links to your blog from the WordPress.com global tagging pages are gone because your blog is no longer part of the WordPress.com community. You now have a stand alone install and it takes at least 6 months to build up your blog and PageRank again.

Now let's deal with the traffic myth. 'Build it and they will come' is not applicable to blogs. Blogging is both competitive and cooperative. The bottom line is there is no such thing as passive blog promotion. If you have a blog then you need to work your butt off promoting it throughout social networks. This relationship building takes time and is built on reciprocity. All of us need to develop social networking strategy for blog promotion and integrate a time management plan into it.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/01/15/twenty-five-steps-to-increase-blog-traffic/

In reality if your WordPress.com blog does not currently attract 1,000 – 1,500 unique visitors every day, and your traffic stats do not demonstrate a growth trend, then it’s unlikely that you will much more than covering web hosting costs. Moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org means you will have added responsibilities so don’t hurry into self hosting thinking you will be handsomely paid for the effort.

I checked your blog by the way and I really liked it =) I just followed you on twitter to stay updated about your posts !

I think for the time being I will just purchase a domain without moving to WordPress.org. Maybe i'll move to .org later !

The pros and cons of being free hosted by wordpress.com or self hosting wordpress.org software are summed up very well in WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

If you are an experienced WordPress.com software user, and have the skill sets required to set up and manage your own self hosted WordPress.org install then the instructions for making the move are easy to follow. But if you are not skilled at WordPress.com blogging, and also lack the skill sets required to self host your own WordPress.org install then acquiring those skills first is recommended.

Here at WordPress.com Staff does for us what we must do ourselves on a WordPress.org install. When you have a WordPress.org install you are responsible for all upgrades, installations, backups and troubleshooting. If you install a theme or a plugin that negatively affects your blog, then you have to figure out what went wrong and fix it. Sometimes it is a conflict with another plugin, sometimes is it is just a poorly written plugin. For self-hosting figure an average monthly total cost (including cost of a domain name) of about $10 to $25 generally, but that all depends on storage and bandwidth requirements.

However, I am not talking about how to purchase a domain. I am asking if it is a good idea and what is better between purchasing a domain with wordpress or with another external host like for example GoDaddy

First, here is the link to my wordpress blog: http://expressjr.wordpress.com

I am really with wordpress but I would like to improve my blog and make it more professional and more good looking to attract more readers.

What are your suggestions ? I am searching for some simple improvements that would make some difference

I think moving to a .com instead of wordpress.com would be a good idea but, what is the best way to do this ? through wordpress ? through external hosts ? what are the advantages and disadvantages of each ?

Sincerely,

ExpressJR