Question for you Bloggers (Biz Question)
 

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Why would you put a blog on for example blogger.com or other types of sites like that? Reason I ask this.... Lets say you got a nice blog going then poof then term you for whatever reason.... its history. Why not host em yourself?


Let the discussion begin.

Ill be back in afew.

Diversification.



2hp

Blogger belongs to Google. they get indexed much faster.

Why put your blogs in the hands n controls of others?

ehhhh true but you can get indexed faster also by other legit means

To avoid Google sandbox filter for new domains.

i'm getting index by google overnight. Screw blogger..

Blogger for maximum SEO, Wordpress for control on your own server.

my newest blog was indexed in 2 days can't beat that... and i host it

fuck blogger for any reason they can tear down all your heard work and you'll be left with nothing, why put so much work into something you don't actually own

kk ill be back keep the discussion going

You can get good SEO with using Blogger.

i think it was convenient and easy at first to go with it, but for long run it sux... at any moment they can dump your site, and you've lost it all... best is to go with your own domain/hosting/wordpress :pimp

I don't...for the reasons you state.

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you dont get indexed any faster by where the blog is. it depends on your incoming links. if your blog is on the blogger domain its already a trusted domain and has much more authority than any of your own domains you can use. plus if you set up a new domain it will be sandboxed for 6 months to a year or so in no time.

i never really messed with blogger but i'm sure theirs a hell of a lot more flexability as to what you can do to your blog i don't know if they give you the ability to fully customize your blog or not

what do you mean like pointing a new domain to your blogger or blogspot url?

i meant getting your own domain and like setting up wordpress

what if you add a blog to an older domain?
and what if the domain is old, but hasn't been online for a while?

:) bump :)

Makes others trust you.


2hp

You can do pretty much what you want with the templates as long as you take care not to screw up stuff after <!-- blogger -->

I totally agree with you: use blogger.com (benefits of spidering) and host it on your own domain and hosting... ;)

blogger can host blog on your domain with the ftp option...

Really. Didnt know that.