Start With a Blog or Web Site?

Whether you decide to promote your Google ads on a free blog from www.blogger.com or build your site on your domain name (yoursite.com), the same principles apply.

You need traffic and lots of it.

Just because a blog is free, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll have an easier time making money and generating traffic than you would with a Web site.

I personally prefer starting with a Web site, but that’s not to say you can’t make just as much money (or more) with a stand-alone blog.

Blogs are quick and easy to setup, especially if you use Blogger.com, but Web Sites provide you with so much more flexibility when it comes to design, functionality and growth.

Remember, this is a business and you want to think long-term.

1) What if you want to add a chat room or message board at a later date? You couldn’t do this with a blog. You’d need a regular Web site.

2) Blogger.com is free and free is not always guaranteed. What if Blogger shuts down your blog all of a sudden? Since you aren’t paying for it, you have no real rights to it.

I heard a story once of someone having their Blogger.com account removed. The publisher was accused of spamming, but claimed he never sent out any spam. So it was his word against Blogger’s. Well guess who won?

Yup.

I had a free blog on Blogger.com, but I switched to WordPress and now host the blog and content on my own domain. See it here .

As you can see, the blog address is now http://blog.2CreateAWebSite.com . In other words, the blog is hosted on my own domain, not Blogger’s.

HostGator is a web host that makes installing a WordPress blog on your own domain extremely easy. Your blog will be up and running in 2 minutes.

I’m glad I did this. The story about the gentleman losing his Blogger account scared me a bit. It’s always better to own your own land out here instead of renting. Free is never guaranteed and always a risk.