Many people struggle with the decision of whether to blog on a free blogging website or place their blog on their own website. Let us look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of each.
One advantage of placing your blog on your own website is that you have 100 percent control of the content. If you want to use your blog solely for advertising or promoting your products, you can do so. Free websites tend to look down on this type of advertisement, and they may even shut down your blog.
When your blog is on your website, you can also add any type of advertisements that you wish. If you use a free blog host, they control what advertisement is on your blog.
Another factor to consider is that when you have your website hosted somewhere else, you are building traffic and name recognition for that website. You really need to be building traffic and name recognition to your own website not someone else’s.
Finally, when you your own website you can control the layout. Controlling the layout on other blogs is limited as they tend to control what your pages will look like.
One severe disadvantage of placing your blog on your website is that new websites do not get nearly the traffic that other blogging websites might. So if you are blogging only for personal or entertainment purposes, putting your blog on another website will be fine. But if you are looking to make money in the long run with a blog, you definitely need to place that blog on your own website.
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This post was written by admin on December 19, 2009
