Hello Stand Upon and all others who may read that post above…

All opinions are appreciated here but I have to say that I do always surf the internet and have been for (yay! just celebrated my anniversary) 10 years now.

Oddly enough I seldom see blogger blogs coming up on the top of the results and I do search for many terms, phrases, etc. when doing research for my niches and potential niches.

Aside from the fact that google is generally my starting point for research and I seldom see blogspot or blogger blogs in the top results, I stand by my stance on how blogger is bad for business.

You’re building a business that you don’t own, making a url popular that isn’t yours – why would you DO that when you can get the same results to a domain that you DO own, can sell at some later point, and appear more respectable and trustworthy in the process to your visitors?

It’s the difference between working for a living or owning your own business. It’s, perhaps more precisely, like renting an apartment and doing hours and thousands of dollars of renovations, then moving out – what have you to show for your hard work and promotion efforts?

Why wouldn’t you spend $13 and do all that work to something you do own, can sell, and grow over time? I have many sites that have a blog, some html pages, a forum, and a store – can you do all that from your blogger url?

This is likely the last time I’m going to discuss this. People either get it, or they don’t. If you’re just playing at your business then get a blogger account, but if you’re serious about working from home and making money online, get an $8 domain from godaddy and a hosting account for $5/month from this hosting service or any other ‘best host’ you find.

Sincerely,

Laura

p.s. Stand Upon I checked out your blog and see that you’re a student in Malaysia chatting about the life of a student. I repeat ‘playing at business’ which is not what I’m sharing on this site – I’m sharing ’succeeding at online business’.

If you always surf internet, you’ll realize that Blogger’s blogs usually came out at first page especially in Google search result.

I personally think that Blogger.com is not really bad as you think….. and half of my adsense revenue came from Blogger.com blogs.

Someone else wrote about why blogspot-hosted blogs ‘bite’!

See Jason Cain’s latest article at http://goldblogger.com/wordpress/archives/screw-bloggercom-it-sucks-a/

My entire stream of posts on this topic started in mid-November because a well known blogging expert told my mentor the smartest thing he should do is get a free blogger blogspot hosted account and start writing to it. I heartily disagreed and it broke my heart when I was asked to ’state my case’ and sell him on the benefits to owner hosted WordPress blogs.

Broke my heart? Yes, because he didn’t have faith and trust in my knowledge and skills (even though I have a long list of people who I’ve helped to get traffic, rank and positioning in the search engines), but also because as a result of this, I lost the ‘awe’ I had for my mentor (because he didn’t see the ‘flaw’ in spending time, energy and money in building traffic and credibility to a site hosted on sand.

Folks, if you’ve got a blogspot hosted blog that you care about – get that content onto your own .com!

Your business, your traffic, your sales, – whatever – will thank you for it.

Laura

p.s. Remember, just because some expert, or guru, or even your mentor says ‘this is so’ doesn’t mean you can’t add an ounce of common sense to the advice.

Can you suggest a hosting company that will install WordPress, with as little effort as possible? I am not a techie, so this is not easy for me.
Any thing you offer, would be a great help!
Thanks.
Ed Mudge