Comments on: Blogs – Free vs Paid – Is One Better?

By: Leonardo Endo

Leonardo Endo — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:25:19 +0000

I think the best approach is build a paid blog – assume that to be your money cow. Then build lots of free blogs from hubpages, wordpress, blogger, squidoo, gather, tumblr – use them as a support to the paid blog.

A lot of work yeah, unless you have good money to outsource everything then you have the greater edge over others.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:24:57 +0000

I did the whole wordpress.com blog thing until my account was suspended? Why I don’t know…but It allowed me to move them all over to self-hosted blogs and I never looked back!
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By: Anas Kamtiyono

Anas Kamtiyono — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:17:24 +0000

After blogging in a free service from wordpress, I choose to take another site of me by using paid blog. I host it myself, maintain it, design it and do all the things I want. Having a paid blog is good for me to do some experiment about design, learning SEO and much more.

By: Barbara Swafford

Barbara Swafford — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:35:20 +0000

Hi Evita,

I too, visit blogs which use different platforms, self hosted and not, and like you said, the creativity out there is amazing,

In fact, your comment makes me think, I hope bloggers who are using Blogger or WordPress.com don’t feel they can’t be successful because they’re not self hosted. The possibilities on any blog is only limited by our imagination.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:41:19 +0000

@Zeenat,

You’re OUTSTANDING blog and loving heart is one of the reasons I started blogging. I’m not joking. I came across your cute face many times on lists of blogs to read and I’m glad I did. : )

I am about six steps behind you Zeenat and am following your lead. I started and am still on a free wordpress blog but am learning that there are limitations.

It’s just another obstacle WE CAN OVERCOME! I know it.

Thanks Barbara for the fantastic thread. You hit the nail on the head with this one because it’s a topic I’ve been contemplating since day one blogging. I’m thinking I’ll shift gears into a paid blog in about six months when I feel more comfortable in the driver’s seat.

Thanks too to John for the great info too. I have a feeling it will come in handy.

Julie
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