If you’re going to do something at all you might as well do it the right way. A Blog is the most affordable way to build up a massive profile for yourself and your business both locally and internationally. But your results will not be anywhere near as effective as they could be if you don’t get the fundamentals right.

Only a few Bloggers using free blog services have been as successful as Bloggers who have their own dedicated site hosted on their own domain name.

http://xiaxue.blogspot.com is one that springs to mind who has been successful using a free blogging service but she is in the minority.

Why Free Blogging Services Bring Inferior Results

1. Often they simply don’t have the power that stand alone blogging software like Wordpress has.
2. Standard templates are rarely search optimized - which means you’ll need to have some tweaking to your blog templates done
3. Rumour has that search engines do not rate content from free blogging services as highly

All of these things mean that at the end the day you’ll get a lot less search traffic for all your writing efforts.

If you’re going to spend all that time writing, doesn’t it make sense to get the maximum audience possible?

Thats why if you’re running a blog or you want to start one its worth paying a few dollars to get your own hosting, your own domain, and some search optimized templates.

Believe me. These little tweaks make a huge difference.