There are basically 3 famous blogging platform, they are Blogger.com, WordPress, and TypePad. All three of them are popular and many bloggers use them. For you, which one did you use? Sometimes, there are bloggers who ask which platform should they use. The answer will be depends on reasons they blog. If you are blogging about your private life, how much you love your girlfriend, what you hate to do, etc, then having a free blogging platform like Blogger.com will be fine.

However, if your purpose here is to earn money online and you are serious in your blogging business. Then you should definitely go for WordPress. It is free to download, just download it and upload it into your server. Here is a real case from I took from Yaro Starak, one of my favorite bloggers. You should always check out his blog, there are a lot of useful content which can help you build your blog. Below is from Yaro:

I’ll tell you a story about Steve. Steve is a niche blogger. He set up lots of little blogs on all kinds of topics (niches) aiming to make a few dollars from each blog by placing Google AdSense advertisements on them. Google pays you when someone clicks on the ads.

After a few months he did really well and built up his income. None of his blogs had a lot of traffic, but they got enough from search engines that each blog earned between $1 and $10 per day. In total he earned over $2000 per month from his blogs - not a bad effort. One day he turned on his computer and all his blogs had gone. Disappeared. Vanished without a trace…

What happened you ask?

He was using one Blogger.com account to manage his blogs and Blogger.com determined that what he was doing was violating their terms of service. They thought all his blogs were what are called “splogs” - SPAM blogs. Splogs are blogs set up to get traffic to other sites. They are usually automatically generated and the owners have no intention of producing a useful website - they just want to get traffic. Essentially they are the SPAM of the blogging world.

Steve contacted the support staff at Blogger.com to explain that his sites were not SPAM sites but it was difficult to convince them and he never got his blogs reactivated. Overnight he lost his regular $2000 per month income in one hit. If Steve had hosted his blogs on WordPress on his own servers with his own domains this simply would not have happened.

I believe that you can see it clearly now which blogging platform should you choose. Well, like I said, if your purpose is just to blog to occupy your free time, it will be fine. However, if you want to earn money online using your blog, then you have to be professional and own your blog. Not having your own blog (domain and hosting) is just like not having full control of your blogging business. Well, having your own domain and hosting for your blog may be costly in the beginning, but they are well worth it.

I hope that you understand how important it is now to choose the right blogging platform. Once you know your purpose of blogging, it is time to take action, a lot of it. Blogging is an ongoing process, you cannot create a profitable blog which makes you $10,000 in just one day, that will be impossible. If you are building a profitable blog today, then treat your blog like an online real-estate. Your blog’s value will appreciate the longer it stays on course.

Since your blog’s value is going to increase over time, why don’t you start now and be serious with it? I’m sure you can achieve the results you want with your blog if you are committed to it. It is just a matter sooner or later for you to achieve your dreams. Of course, the sooner the better. So start building your blog today and you can enjoy the results faster.

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Posted on April 7th, 2008 by Shawn
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