Blogspot vs .... ?

Hi Clio, Nice idea. Blogspot is now a combination of social media and web 2.0. So asking for the domain name affect the ranking power of the blogger blog will NOT affect the ranking. I know blogger is connected to google so by that means blogger is near to heart of google. Then this speaks that blogger is really have faster rank than WP...

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That might last until the first competitor who sees it happens to "flag" it.

Anyone imagining that it might be sensible to try to use a Blogger blog as "their own site" may be pretty interested in reading this informative thread.

And anyone who actually reads it, I imagine, is highly likely to change their mind, and thereby reduce the regular occurrence of all the threads like this one.

Please excuse the observation that I wouldn't dream of doing what you're planning to do. But I wish you good luck, whatever you decide.

better off building ur own site on ur own domain imo...

Blogger/Blogspot can be a great asset for getting pages and links indexed by Google very quickly. They can also be useful when applying for Adsense.

There are 10's of millions of blogs hosted on both, so I wouldn't take anecdotal evidence as the only reason not to use either.

On the other hand, you should minimize your risk and not put a lot of time and effort into them either. But there's nothing wrong with adding a couple of your articles to Blogger/Blogspot, using contextual links in them to get a little link juice and indexing benefits.

With web hosting literally costing just under $5 a month depending on who you go with, its hard to understand why you would use a free blogger blog--especially if you already own the domain name.

Blogger is attractive, yes. I get drawn to it at least four times a year. I'll go check up on a blog that's been sitting there doing really nothing for at least 3 years and I think, "well if this didn't get nuked, what else could I get away with!"

And then it hits me that its probably not been nuked because a whopping five people (probably all me) have look at the page in the last twelve months.

What can go wrong, will go wrong eventually. It would royally suck for you to put a lot of hard work into a site and then have an Editor bring the banhammer down on you.

Like I said Blogger can be attractive because there are NO upfront costs. Hell, your post has caused me to give things another look--but its the fact that I don't have any control over my site's fate that keeps pulling me out of that fantasy.

If you have the domain name already, you might as well just self-host.

The main idea of a free blog is that you need no domain expense
Same as wordpress.com

Was not even aware that you could associate a domain name
with a blogger/blogspot blog - and I dont see how that lowers
risk of any kind even if you could.

If you want to spend money -

But a domain and hosting account
Make nice sales pages there
Have a Blogger/Blogspot AND a Wordpress to make links/announcements/pings for your offers.

Blogspot is nice but Wordpress is better.

Alright but have anyone found blogspot blogs to rank better or faster than new self-hosted sties? If there's no ranking benefit associated with blogspots, I'll just self-host; there's no point in me wasting my time.