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Should I Pay For My Blog?
Filed Under (Affiliates, Article marketing, Blogs, Ebay, Ebooks, Email Marketing, Internet Marketing, Making Money, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Social Networks, Website Development) by Deepak Shrivastava on 08-11-2008
When starting your blog it is important to first determine what the purpose of the blog is. If your blog is for nothing more than personal joy, or perhaps a place to share thoughts with a select number of individuals, then a free blog is perfectly acceptable. On the other hand, if your blog has aims at making money or perhaps feeding information to a larger number of people perhaps it’s time to consider investing a little money to maximize your blog’s effective reach.
If your blog fits into the second category, and you want to increase both its reach and its ability to better serve your users then you can’t afford not to make the small investments necessary. Doing so costs very little and only takes two small steps:
Step 1: The first inexpensive, but extremely valuable purchase would be a personal domain name. Nothing separates your blog from the thousands of others like it’s own home on the internet. No longer will it be perceived as simply a common blog, but now it’s an official home for the information you are sharing. This relationship change occurs on both a conscious and subconscious level to your users. Instead of being bobsblog.blogx.com you can have something personal like make all for just a few dollars a year.
There are a number of options for purchasing your own domain name and they start as cheap as a couple of dollars and peak out around $20 dollars. While the cheapest option may sometimes seem the best that isn’t always the case. There are also options with many hosting companies to purchase a domain name, or even get one for free when you purchase a hosting plan. Be sure to research a bit about the registrar you are going to use and make sure you will actually own the domain name. Some registrars will trick you into “buying” a domain name but then maintain the rights to it and will be able to prevent you from taking that domain name with you if you wish to leave their service.
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