Hey bloggers, buy your own domain now!
Are you still using a free blogging services for your blog? good. Nothing’s wrong with that, in fact if you don’t have enough time to maintain it, I recommend you to use free blogging services to host your blog. But what about your domain? are you either still using a free sub domain? blabla.blogspot.com? yourname.wordpres.com? if your answer is yes, then I have to suggest you to quick buy your domain name now.
Why? What’s wrong with the free sub domain? If it’s OK to use a free blogging services to host my site, then it should be no problem with using their free sub domain services too rite? No, There is a problem with a free sub domain.
Before I bought this JackBook dot Com domain, it was a lifewg.blogspot.com actually. I hosted this blog on blogger / blogspot. It run pretty good, until on the second month. It was a Google Pagerank Update, and this 2 months (actually it’s 1,5 month) old blog got Pagerank 3. Very nice, Unfortunately that time this blog was lifewg.blogspot.com, not this current domain.
So when I finally decided to buy my own domain, all those Pagerank was gone. And it’s not even just the pagerank, All links from other sites were became useless also since they’re still linking to the old sub domain. All my stats on Technorati, on Alexa, on Digg, Stumble Upon, Del.icio.us All of them were just gone that way. All was just because my stupidity using a free sub domain for my blog.
I wish I bought my own domain since the first I started this site, Probably I’d already have Pagerank 6 or 7, and another better stats also.
So please learn from my mistake. Domain name is cheap, for a .COM and .NET it’s only about $9 USD a year. for .INFO even cheaper just about $2 USD per year. for .ORG and .US it’s about $6 per year.
Integrating your own domain name with blogger is free and fast. How about wordpress? Well it will cost you $15 per year. Yeah pretty expensive, but still it’s cheaper then if you host it on your own web host.
So what are you waiting for? If you are still thinking that you are not yet serious running your blog, let me tell you, You Will! You will think to run your blog seriously. Trust me! And if next day you think my suggest was wrong, well you would lose $9 only anyway.
So what are you waiting for? go get your own domain name! I wish I had enough money to buy you all Jack Book readers your own domain name, I would buy it.
Now I hope next time I won’t see any dot blogspot or dot wordpress anymore 
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I can confirm it based on ?y own experience. The same has recently happened to me. Listen to the experience and do not make the same mistakes.
oopss..buy domain? umm…I was doubt to buy own domain, because I still newbie in blog making money.
yes, i was a ‘newbie’ too when this site still lifewg.blogspot.com
you will grow to be a professional blogger, and that time, it would be too late for you to buy your own domain.
what if another people bought blog-review-holic.com today?
Your site is about review site rite? did you know that many paid review network such as PayPerPost, ReviewMe, SponsoredReview etc they don’t accept review from a free subdomain blog. that means you will never be able to make money with them.
Jeniffer Laycock, the owner of Lativist once said that the biggest blogging mistake she ever did is that she didn’t buy her blog her own domain name. she use blogspot too, and she’s sorry for it. you can read it here.
thanks
Have own domain is beatiful and good for our blogs . I recomend it too
Inner I do not have urgent I must take I think necessary but a reason diye I think
Yes! Besides having own domain, you can have your own freedom to make changes on your blog. unlike free blog services, you have some limitations to add extra plugins when comparing to WordPress.
Well, I have set up my blog not long ago, just 2 weeks ago. I won’t regret to get my own domain so fast as I’m still a newbie blogger
Well, $9 domain per year is very cheap. So far I bought my domain for $10++.
hehehe…thanks for your advices jack! okay. I will saving some money from my salary to buy my own domain.
unfortunately i can’t afford one so i just have to stick with my .blogspot blog…
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I still can’t afford to buy one. I’m still saving from the paid to click sites and other programs I have joined. If anyone wants to help me. You could check out my blog. Maybe we could help each other out. We only need $9 each.
This will be definitely the first item on my to buy list
yes, this definitely should be your first item on your to buy list.
it’s great that you are thinking like that.
I am still saving up for it and I think with the current income I am generating from paid to click sites and sponsored blogging it would take me about a month or two to buy one.
If I could just get some people to donate but I don’t like asking for something. I want to earn everything.
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meaning u don’t host this blog on your own?
So i can buy my own domain off blogspot? same settings, same posts? same template? but my own domain?
I’m confused
yes, you can!
I agree with you, Jack. I have given domain for my free hosted blog. But, can you give me a figure on how to sell a PR4 domain? I have a PR4 domain but lack of energy to maintain it. Check it out! suaraku.com
yeah I’ve bougth my own domain….
Good tips, will consider buying a domain. Thanks.
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