To Join a Blogging Site or Not to Join
If you want to start a blog site, you have 2 choices.
- Joining a established blogging site like, blogger, live journal or wordpress
- Start a blog site with your own hosting and own domain name
Joining a established blogging site like, blogger, live journal or wordpress
Joining an established blogging site like live journal or blogger has
plenty of advantages, especially for the blog novice. Sites that host
a lot of different blogs often have very useful tutorials about building
and updating your blog, and you are likely to encounter a very user-
friendly software interface at an established blogging site. In addition,
these sites provide a kind of instant community of fellow bloggers who
can provide advice, insight, and feedback. These established sites often
keep directories of their members, which can be great news for your
traffic logs because it means that other bloggers on the site will find
out about your pages.
However, there are also some downsides to linking up with a large
blogging site. By posting within the established templates of a site
like blogger, you run the risk of having your blog look and feel like
everybody else’s. The blogging movement is very much about the
creation of distinctive sites and the development of individual voices,
so it makes plenty of sense that many bloggers would shy away from
the cookie-cutter look and feel that these blogging sites often promote.
Many bloggers feel that the content of a blog is what makes it distinctive,
not the look of the blog, but many members of the blogging community
feel that the visual impact of a blog should match the originality of the writing.
Start a blog site with your own hosting and own domain name
Start a blog site with your own hosting and domain name is very important.
If you are a blog novice, I suggest your join a established blog site to create
a blog site in few minutes. But, I strongly recommend your host your blog
with own domain name, http://www.yourname.com. Just like my blog site,
http://www.perryho.net. People think that host an own domain name blog site
is very costly. So they rather choose the free service from established blog site
provider. This is not true at all, now day, you can host your own blog as low as
USD 0.07 a day with word press blog system ready. We choose an easy remember
domain name to build our blog brand awareness. Your blog have your own domain
name, blog logo and personalized blog theme design. Yes, you only need to publish
your domain name, peoples will remember it and visit your blog frequently.
My View
Both option above have pro and cons, there are no wrong to choose either one.
We can said that, Established blog site are suitable for blog novice and you recommend
to host your own domain name blog after some time when you know more about
blogging. Enjoy your blogging.
