Get your own domain! | TheGermz.com

I have seen a lot of people still using Blogspot and Wordpress free hosting in the Entrecard site. This worries me because a lot of people might end up having issues trademarking their name or a certain logo in the future.

Having your own domain is better than having a free one because it allows you to have more control over the things displayed on your site, it also allows you to buy a certain word, or keyword.

There really isn’t much difference between a free blogspot/wordpress site, than a self hosted site.

Some people believe that a Blogspot site will get a better ranking, or a better search position just because it’s owned by Google, but this is not true as Google does not have preferences for certain sites. Sometimes you might start out on the first or even the second search result for a certain keyword and then gradually loose your SERP in the Blogspot/Wordpress free hosting site. Just because this happens does not mean that Google prefers your site, it just means that Google is giving you a little push to help you get more traffic and this is very normal, as it happens to me every time I make a post.

One thing that does differentiate the free blogs from the no so free blogs (I couldn’t think of another word) is the fact that free blogs like blogspot get crawled faster. I don’t know why, but my guess is that it’s because they are on Google’s servers and since Google is a reliable source then their servers are always getting crawled.

So go ahead and buy yourself a domain! It makes your site look better too, I’d much rather type a example.com URL than a example.blogspot.com URL. Oh and if you are looking to buy a domain for less than $8 dollars, it’s impossible, I spent an hour looking.

PS: I’ve also heard people say that free blogs do better in SEO terms. And that is not true either. ALL sites do the same in SEO terms, it all depends how good your content is and how good are your keywords.