Beware of the curse of free blog hosts
Although free blog hosts may be a good way to
try out blogging, they come with danger. Make sure that you are not
hosting on a free blog host if you are getting serious about
blogging.
As blogging becomes more popular than people expected, more and
more individuals and businesses are setting up blogs for many
reasons. A vast majority of these new blogs are hosted on free blog
hosting sites. This can bring more expected problems than it is
worth.
For a beginner, free blog hosting can be a brilliant starting
point. Without having to spend anything a blog can be setup to try
blogging. The problem is that free hosts bring unexpected problems.
The first problem that a many free hosts in the past have faced is
that the host is out to make money. If the free blog hosting is not
making them money, they will just stop it and leave you out in the
cold. This has happened before and it will happen again.
The second problem is uptime. Many of the free blog hosts also run
paid services. When they have a problem, they will work on getting
the paid service back running before they care about the free
hosting. This means that your blog will have more down time and may
lose visitors.
Once your blog starts to grow, you might look into making a bit of
money with advertisements. If you are lucky enough to be on a host
that allows you to place advertisements on your site, you still may
run into problems. Free blog hosts always want something and in most
cases they want to use the best advertising space at the top of your
blog. How is your advertisement going to be seen when people are
seeing your hosts advertisement first.
If your blog does become large enough that it prompts your to move
hosts, you may find that this too will be a minefield of problems.
Moving hosts means changing the URL that your blog is found at. If
your free host does not allow this to be redirected, you may have to
start your blog all over again, losing your regular visitors.
By all means, use free blog hosts to try out blogging , but if you
are serious do not expect that you can get away without paying for a
more professional blog host.
About the author
Written by Mary Nicole Hicks. Read her latest article “Bad
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