I will just say straight away that if your goal is to make money online with your blog or website, you should avoid using free stuff like free blogs or website and free email account.

I do not wish to discourage you if you are new to the Internet and have already signed up for a free blog and email account, but if I should guide you right in the way of making money online, then I have to tell you the truth.

Now why do I ask you not to use a free blog and email account if you want to blog for money? I will explain in a moment.

If you are serious about making money online by blogging, the first thing I will advice you imbibe is the mindset of seeing your blogging as a business. With this mindset you will treat it properly, even when you are not making money from it initially.

Therefore, if your blogging activities is a business, then your domain name is your business name, and your blog host is your “land lord”.

Using a free domain means that the company which gave it to you will have their own name as part of the domain’s name, and will have their symbol showing so boldly on your blog. You will already know what I’m saying if you have a free domain already. Once you tell somebody your domain name or a visitor visits your blog, they will immediately know you got it for free.

And that means if you are trying to make money on the domain by selling something to that person, you will more than 90% not succeed because the person will believe you are not serious, and since not too many people like dropping money with people they perceive as unserious, they will leave.

That’s just how we all behave as humans whether online or in the physical, especially when it comes to releasing money – it’s not easy for anyone to release money for anything, including making payments online!

And perception matters a lot in making spending decisions. Again, that’s why you will sell more of your products and make more money with a full page advert than with a classified advert.

Then, very importantly, with a free domain and hosting, apart from the fact that you are limited by the number of theme designs and layouts available to choose from, you have no control or security over your site. You might wake up tomorrow and discover without any notice, you have been banned and your blog shot down.

I know people who have invested a lot of time on their free blogs only to have them suddenly shot down by the providers. And when they tried to find out what they could have done wrong, they were told they went against the company’s terms of usage, which by their own reckoning they never did.

Now all their invested time online, which could easily worth thousands of dollars if they were to place a monetary value on it, has gone.

Please note that your domain name increases in value as you continue to build your blog or website, such that if you decide to sell it later on, you can sell it for a much more higher value than you bought it.

Websites and blogs can sell for thousands of dollars and more, depending on how much the owners have worked on them. But you cannot sell a free blog however much you have built it – the true owners, that’s the people who gave it to you will not allow it.

So why should you spend so much time, and money (because you have to pay for Internet access remember?) on a free blog without making money from it, or worse still losing it suddenly without any notice?

If you are using a free blog for non profitable venture that doesn’t need anyone assessing your seriousness, that’s fine, but if it’s for making money online, then you must get your own domain and a reliable host.

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