Can a normal bloger blog do the job?

[Quilst]

I have setup my first blog on a particular niche. Only 3 posts so far - have about 7 more waiting to be posted. I have pinged them and waiting to see the results. Can normal blogger blog replace a website? Will I see some earnings?

I need some advice about methods to promote my blog and some tips from experienced blogers.

How do I track my blog visits? Can I put G-analyitics in it? Can someone give me a list of sites where I can ping my blog?

[Ron Douglas]

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[Colin Klinkert]

If it were me Id spend the $7.45 to get a domain name for it, and still use a blogger blog for SEO purposes

[bgmacaw]

I use Blogger blogs a lot for niches, especially for smaller ones where I don't want to buy and develop a full domain.

Earnings follow traffic. I wouldn't even monitize it until you start getting traffic, say about 100 unique visitors a day from search engines. Unless you've found a very underserved niche it may take 3-6 months before this happens.

Promotion to get search traffic is in building links. This means commenting on dofollow blogs, submitting articles, submitting to directories, submitting to dofollow social bookmarking, getting links on related forums, etc. etc. You won't be looking to these links to bring you traffic directly through referral but by increasing your profile on Google. Remember that blog comments and forum posts have to be quality, not spammy, for this to work.

Don't get bogged down in watching your stats. It can be discouraging when you have weeks of zero traffic while you're building links to the site. I use StatCounter.com for tracking on Blogger blogs. Just add the script in the footer of your template.

[clint48]

I don't ping my blogger blogs anymore. I am not sure but I think blogger automatically pings them. I do run all my blogs through Digg and they do get pinged so I don't know if it is Digg pinging them or blogger pinging them.

Clint

[Sean A McAlister]

And yes you can put google analytics in them.

I use blogger accounts all the time....very customizable
check my sig...

If you get a feedburner account you can set up various things one of which is a ping service. This will automatically ping sites each time you make a post

Sean

[kenj]

My first 2 blogs were on blogger and one of them became quite large. Because of this I wish I had started it on my own domain. The other one is fine as it is in a small niche.

I think it depends on the future plans for the website

I would just invest the small amount of money and buy the domain. You can always sell the domain and even the whole website later if you don't want it anymore. I have an account with hostgator (something like $9.95 a month) and I can host unlimited domains. There are different companies who offer packages like that. I currently have about 10 domains set up. And reserving the domain is relatively inexpensive as well so I am putting down minimal cost.

I had a bunch of blogger blogs and I got tired of it. I have one still that is doing pretty well but the others - I got tired of them and moved on. It seems that having your own domain goes a long way in establishing credibility.

[tess47]

I have several blogs on Blogger for small niches that I'm involved in. I do make pretty good money off of them, and none are older than 5 months.

Submit your really good posts to Digg, be sure to optimize for keywords like you do when writing articles. As mentioned before, submit to directories and post on topic related forums.

Statcounter is GREAT for checking traffic, where your visitors are coming from, and how long they stay. It's FREE too!

[Floyd Bogart]

I had used Blogger extensively, but stopped when I started having problems because I was ranking for some competitive keywords.

This may sound strange, but when this happened some of my competition started reporting my blog as a spam blog. Blogger send me emails stating that it was probably due to the appearance that I was using posting automation, which I had not done.

Went through this 4 times, and had my blog released each time. The last time it took them almost a full month to finally release it though.

So I have now switched to a WordPress blog hosted on my own domain.

Never been happier!

[eholmlund]

Some marketers use Blogger as a tactic to get quickly indexed on Google for certain keywords (usually the name of a product they are promoting as an affiliate).

However it's important to keep in mind that that's a TACTIC and not the foundation of building an online business.

If you want to OWN your business, you should set up your blog on your own website.