A Professional Looking Blog - inexpensively!

There are tons of free blogs available to use online. With millions of registered users, I've heard that blogger.com is by far the largest provider of free blogs. Also, according to others I've talked with, blogger.com blogs tend to be a little more sophisticated than other comparable free blog services.

Notice... you're at blogger.com right now! ;-)

I can assure you that it's entirely possible to make money using a free blog. Yet you'll hear many people advise you against using a free blog if you intend to monetize. It's important to consider that position.

Here are a few very valid reasons why you will want to secure your own blog (which you have to pay for):

1) With blogger.com, Google owns your content. That's right. They have the authority to shut down your account without warning if they don't like what you're blogging about. (You might want to back up those blog posts you've made. ;-)). This takes away your control over your own blog.

2) You miss out on some options. For instance, Blogger doesn't allow categories so you can't sort your posts into different focuses.

3) You are limited in how you brand yourself - With blogger you can publish to your own domain, but you can't do significant changes to it.

Because of these things there are many that feel if you are interested in making serious money with your blog that the number one recommendation is WORDPRESS. Wordpress has a 100% FREE version that contains no advertisement and has fewer limitations than what you find at Blogger.com though to have all of the options and features available to you the best thing of all would be to host a Wordpress blog yourself.

I have to confess that I haven't taken that plunge yet myself... so I don't have personal experience to compare with. Maybe Jackie will fill us in on the challenges as well as benefits that she has experienced having blogged both ways.

That's enough for today... now go off and have a fun-filled weekend!!!
I appreciate you!
--Mary K

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