Android & Blog Stuff

Yes, you heard it right; investing in a domain name is the best investment you can make in your blogging career. A year ago when I started this blog, the first thing I did was find a suitable domain for my blog.

So, yes I am suggesting you too to get a domain name for your blog. Well it’s not that there’s anything wrong with the .blogspot.com. There are several popular sites still with the same extension but believe me, it will be the best investment you will ever make in your blogging path. Here’s why you need to follow my suggestion.

The competition in blogging has grown so fierce that you need to have something if you need to stand out from the crowd. Blogger being a free service and easy to install, many have started using it for some unfair practices. I mean the spam is growing so rapidly that most of the blogs under that domain are just created for manipulating search engine. So, your domain will make you stand out from the crowd and add some credibility.

Yeah, you don’t own that domain. Google owns. Of course you use it, you just have right to use it. Did you go through the Blogger’s ToS? They clearly mention that only the content you write is owned by you, and the platform is the sole property of Google. How this affects is, the blog is not in your hands completely and someday if you happen not to abide by their terms of service, they have right to remove your blog without any notice or reason. Won’t this affect all your hard work till now? Think isn’t having your own domain worth?

If your blog grows and becomes popular, you start looking for more options and beyond the box. That’s when you might go for your own hosting rather than depending on the free Blogger hosting which has limited options in comparison. You domain will finally come in use. You may want to move to some other CMS such as WordPress, (which most of them do) and then the same domain on which you worked for years will come in use and will have same authority with added flexibility.

There are lot advantages of owning your own domain name but I wanted to write this post just to inspire you to go for your first domain if you haven’t got any. Good luck.