Don’t be a cheapskate – this is a real business…
Posted by Martin | Tagged as: The Basics
Speaking of which, there are two threads right now that are interesting. One is from someone moaning that Blogger.com has deleted all his blogs and the other from someone who is saying that WordPress.com have done the same.
Both services allow you to set up blogs for free, and they host them for you.
In effect, they own your blog. And as a result, if they decide they don’t like you, or what you’ve posted, they can instantly delete all your hard work.
And they often do because many people ignore the terms and conditions they agree to when they sign up and create blogs that break the rules.
Doh! Of course they delete stuff they don’t like.
The only surprise to me is why anyone would allow someone else that much power of their business?
Buying a domain is cheap. Buying hosting is cheap. And once you have those two things, setting up a real WordPress site on your own domain, under your own hosting costs nothing.
So why, oh why, would anyone not do that?
I know that the $20-$30 dollars needed to buy the domain and hosting is still money that some people don’t currently have, but unless you are prepared to invest that small amount you can never, ever, say you have a business. You will always be at a third party’s mercy. And ‘Woe is me, the blogs I’ve worked so hard to produce’ threads on the Warrior Forum will continue to be commonplace.
Blogging is an excellent strategy. It can get you very high Google rankings very quickly. And in the process, it can make you a lot of money.
But for goodness sake, stay in control of your own destiny and use your own domains and hosting from the very start.
Rob Benwell’s Blogging to the Bank 2010 ebook tells you how to get started in blogging the right way. Incidentally, I’ve been saying that this is the third edition of the book, but I’m mistaken – it is in fact the 4th.
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