Free Blogs Vs Own Domain Blogs
New bloggers often choose to start their blogs on free blogging services such as Blogger, Live Journal and Wordpress.
These sites are fine for personal blogs but if you have plans to make money blogging, it is best to register your own domain. Host your own blog using a free blogging software - Wordpress is best - on a reliable web host.
This way, you will have complete control over how you want to make money with your blog without worrying about running foul of the terms of service of a free blogging service and risk losing your blog.
You will also have your own entity and identity eg. yourblog.com instead of yourblog.blogspot.com. Also, many advertisers and paid blogging networks do not accept blogs created on a free blogging service.
Making Money Online Without Your Own Blog
If you do not own a blog, you can still earn from blogging. Some blog networks require you to create a blog hosted on their network with their revenue earned directly from advertisers, syndication or other means.
Other blog networks engage you as their freelance professional blogger where you have to commit to making regular posts. In such cases, the content you create could belong to the blog network. You will not be able to use your content anywhere else although other blogging networks allow you to blog on your own blog while being part of their network.
Earn By Blogging For A Blog Network
Blog networks who use Google AdSense programme to generate revenue are less restrictive in terms of topics. They also tend to be less demanding about content quality and the reuse of content at other sites. Bloggers are paid by Google AdSense from the number of clicks received on ads embedded in their posts. If you haven’t got an AdSense account yet, sign up by clicking on this affiliate link:
Payouts may seem too little to bother with but if you are active in many networks, the amounts add up. If the network allows duplicate content, you just have to copy and paste your articles instead of having to write a new article each time.
Generally though, feedback from those who have tried this method report very low earnings since earnings are shared between the network and blogger. If you are serious about making money blogging, you should set up your own blog - it’s easy.
Earn Money Online With Your Own Domain Blog
You could just as easily run a successful blog on free Blogger with a blogspot name. Some even say Google favours blogspot blogs - hardly surprising since Google owns Blogger. So are there any compelling reasons to even bother with a domain name?
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Sell Your Blog
If your blog becomes successful you would not be able to sell a blogspot blog. The traffic and PageRank authority you’ve built up would be tied to blogspot. In order to have complete ownership and control over your blog, having your own domain is a good investment. Although you could probably buy a domain and do a redirect later, you will lose traffic and PageRank when you change domains.
- Hosted Domain Blogs Get More Respect
There are successful blogs that use blogspot, but the overall feeling is that blogs with their own domains appear more credible and attract more advertisers. If a blog isn’t even willing to spend $9.00 a year on its own domain, why expect advertisers to spend anything on the blog?
If you are making money online with paid blogging, you would earn more if you have your own domain because many advertisers specifically exclude free blogs when choosing blogs for paid reviews.
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