Your blog is a piece of intellectual property and it should be safeguarded and rightfully own by you. Your blog need to be self hosted in order to make money. Self hosting gives you total control over your piece of intellectual property.
Using a free WordPress hosted blog for example, has its limitations as you are not allowed to put any form of advertisements like adsense, banners or sell anything on it not even being an affiliate. You may want to earn some money while blogging as your readership grows.
Many bloggers may think that it is only sensible to make the shift when their blog command more traffic and achieve higher ranking, then they will be able to place some ads and sell some stuff.
When you make that shift to self host, you will have to register and host your blogs in different domains as you cannot use the pervious free Wordpress.com blogs domains. This means that you’ll have to start all over again, building up your links, traffic as well as your ranking.
Maybe you may not know this as well; that all the backlinks that you have previously build to link your blog will also be lost when you make that shift.
If making money with your blog is your intention, it is wiser for you to self host your blog right from the beginning without having to regard not making this decision earlier. Check out the resources on the web for hosting guide as there are plenty of hosting companies to choose from and it can be as little as $5.00 a month.
“It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever” – Philip Adams
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