Once you decide to get a blog for yourself, you will be faced with two
options, to get a free blog or a paid blog. You will get tons of websites where
you can sign up for a free blog and some of them are fairly popular these days,
but have you given it a serious thought about what you want to use, a free blog
or a paid blog?
Before getting into details lets discuss what
a free blog is. A free blog is what you will get once you sign up with a free
blogging service like wordpress or blogger.com. A paid blog or a self hosted
blog would be the one where you have to pay to the host such as hostgator, even
though the platform is free. So, what are the pros of a free blog?
The very first pro is that it is free. All
you need to do to get a free blog is to fill in a form,
few clicks and you are good to do. Once you have signed up, the automated
wizard will guide you through the rest of the process and you can customize
your blog according to your taste. You can select themes, font styles, headline
style etc…
Once you are done with customization, the
next step is posting your blogs. That is the easiest part, all you need to do
is click on new, paste your text and click publish and you're online. Another
thing is that most of these free blogs are Search engine optimization (SEO)
ready. You won't need to promote your website as it is already done so and most
free blogging platforms are already linked to search engines etc…
There are a few cons of having a free blog as
well. Your choice will be limited and you will have to select what the platform
presents. You can only select basic designs which are free and you will have to
live with that. It means that there will be many other blogs which will look
exactly the same.
A paid blog on the other hand will give you
better control of your web design. You can either pick free themes or purchase
others if you prefer. You will have a professional URL and a domain name of
your choice if it is available.
The first disadvantage is that all this is
much more complicated and you would need to a lot of work like install
WordPress yourself and do the SEO of the website yourself too. Promotion would
be your headache as well as you will need to submit your blog to blog
directories etc…
The choice however in the end will be yours
as to what you want to do.
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