Many times I’ve seen a lot of you using free hosted blogs. Well, it is not wrong to use services like blogger or wordpress.com for your blogs. But please, not your home business blog!
Here’s why. You can actually lose your free blogs on any of the free hosted services at anytime. Because you are not the real owner of the blogs (yes, the hosting domain is the owner), you can be taken down just by getting complaints. Perhaps you “stole” a copyrighted article or image or product for the matter. Even people who disagree with you at any point can take steps to ensure you lose your blog.
So what can you do if you have blogged for about a year on the free hosted blog and Google or Wordpress decides to terminate it without reasoning? Wasted effort? You bet!
It’s not wrong to start with a free hosted blog at all. I started by using blogger myself. My old blogspot address is no more now. Personally, I used it back then to learn some HTML and coding skills for free. These days, I still use them but only for short blogging stints to get backlinks to my websites and to promote affiliate programs!
So, when you have the means (you should if you are serious about your business), invest in your own domain name. There are some posts I wrote about how to buy a domain name. You can get it all there. Next, you should host on a hosting account and I recommend Hostgator. Read about why I chose Hostgator and how to set up your hosting account.
As Hostgator or most other hosting accounts come with Cpanel. You can install the latest version of Wordpress using Fantastico which can be found in your Cpanel. Ok, there are other self-hosted blogging platforms such as Joomla but I believe Wordpress is one of the easiest and most flexible to use hence I recommend it.
If you are still using free blogs for your home business, just think of what happens when you don’t own your own blog. For those of you already on Wordpress (I believe many of you are), have you done your upgrade to Wordpress 2.5? For everyone else, let me know if you need help setting up your Wordpress blog, buying domains or even hosting.
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Hi Fendi
Nice content you have in your blog, got to admit I’m very impressed with what you have to say about free blog hosting it was very interesting and I can see were you are coming from.
Well I have a website it pretty much covers business opportunity related stuff just like your site.
Why not come and check it out if you get time.
Gavin Cole
http://www.xploria-marketing.com
Reply to this comment »Thanks Gavin.
I’ll be checking out your site as well.
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