You must be stupid if you blog on a free platform
What will you do if there is a real estate that you can buy for 20$ a year or you may rent it for free. Will you buy it or rent it knowing fully well that it can easily fetch 20,000$ after 2 years? What will call someone who decides to rent it because there is a 1% chance that it may result in a grand 50$ loss to him.
That was easy wasn’t it? Now let us say what you get into when you decide to create a blog a free blogging platform like wordpress or blogger.
- There is a good chance you will never see any payout from your blog. Wordpress does not allow you to post advertisements. Blogspot allows you to put advertisements but then I doubt many advertising networks will be too keen to accept something.blogspot.com
- You are bound by the stupid rules of the blogging platform. They may change the rule any day they want and you will loose a blog that you developed over years of hard work. I have been astonished by the number of people that have lost perfectly genuine blog because the stupid software thought they were spamming.
- You can not extend your blog to anything additional. If I wan, I can add a forum, a private members only area or anything else to binaryday. Can you do that on your something.blogspot.com?
I can go on and on about why it is stupid to have a blog on a free platform. However before you curse me and leave, I will request you to go to the top of this post and read my real estate example once more. That real estate available for 12$ a year is a self hosted blog with your own url and own hosting space. I am sure you know a lot of people who make a decent amount of money from their blog. If you do not then I shall suggest that you read December earnings report of 15 bloggers.
You are lucky if you have not already created your blog on one of these free blogging platforms. Create a self hosted blog today itself. If you already have a blog on one of these free blogging platforms, then you are in luck. Harsh at shoutmeloud provides a very valuable service of migrating from free hosted blog to self hosted platform. No that is not n affiliate link nor Harsh has paid me any money for linking to his page.
P.S: Feel free to contact me at ask[at]binaryday.com if you need any clarification regarding how to get complete website for less than 20$ a year.
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Well.. I’m planning to register a .com domain for my blog. And the question is should I use Blogger itself with the custom .com domain or migrate to a self hosted wordpress/movable type blog? And what about typepad pro? How much it costs a month? Do they allow to use a custom domain? (All the typepad pro blogs I’ve seen are something.typepad.com form though they pay for it.)
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@Harsh,
Thanks for dropping by. I always like to give credit to good initiatives.
@Anees
Personally I swear by wordpress. Themes, plugins and anything else wordpress rocks. Period. I have even created my latest classified site http://www.secondhandbikes.org on wordpress blog.
Dude,
Im currently on blogger and I am planning to move to a custom domain. I want to do this through google itself (i.e blogger)because wordpress sucks. What do you think?
Is it better through google or try some sitesell sites?
@Pawan,
I am glad that you have decided to move to your own domain. You have a nice domain. We can discuss it further and I will be glad to help you in this process.
You are entitled to your own views but I fail to see how wordpress sucks….I have been using it for ages and I am so happy with that I have started using wordpress for creating dynamic websites as well. Check secondhandbikes.org
Let us discuss it in detail
I said wordpress sucks, because, I ended up losing a blog owing towordpress. Blogger is more simpler that WP!
But isn’t going thru google a good option?
Or do u still recommend wordpress?
@Pawan,
I have little experience with blogger myself. So will not comment on that.
As stated earlier personally I am married to wordpress. Will recommend it anyday.
Well,
Please do find out if blogger does well!
As I have no one to even guide me!
i have 1 doubt if we go for paid blogging then better to make website . isn’t it >? anyways thanks for sharing.