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As a newbie blogger, the most confusing state is to decide which Blogging platform to choose. Though, most suggested platforms are BlogSpot, WordPress, Tumblr. Now, when we talk about creating a blog from the professional front, WordPress is a rock-solid choice. There are many things which you can do with a Self-hosted WordPress blog, which you can’t do on a BlogSpot blog.

BlogSpot and WordPress both offers free blogging platform which is a good way to start your blogging career, though certainly not the best. If you have been blogging on any of these free blogging platforms, read this article to know what are the limitations of using free blogging platform over self-hosted WordPress blog.



To make it clear I started my blogging career from BlogSpot and then I moved to Self hosted WordPress blog. As I mentioned above BlogSpot is a good blogging platform to start your blogging career, but for long run a self hosted blog is what you should select. Though in this post I will highlight why self-hosted, WordPress blog is better than free BlogSpot blog and also from free WordPress.com blogs.

If you are familiar with WordPress dashboard and looking forward to moving to WordPress, you should have a look at my previous post on Step by step guide to installing self-hosted WordPress blog.

WordPress vs. BlogSpot Blogging Platform:

As I mentioned above, I started my journey to Blogging with BlogSpot, and later I moved to WordPress. So, I’m aware of benefits of downside of BlogSpot, and here I’m not going to talk any benefits, as WordPress offer all those feature which BlogSpot offers.

Control over your blog:

This is one of the major reason I support self-hosted blog. Blogspot is owned by Google, and there are chances that they can delete your Blogspot account without giving you any warning. Even if you use the custom domain feature (Using your domain name ), chances are high that if spammers use feature Flag as spam and report your blog as spam. Google might remove your blog. This is something very common and by doing a quick search on Google, you will realize many bloggers faced this problem while using BlogSpot.

Winner: Self hosted blog

Search engine optimization:

Doesn’t matter where your blog is hosted, traffic is the first and last thing any blogger will look for. Search engine optimization in simple words means Optimizing your blog for search engines and getting traffic from search engine”. Comparing WordPress and BlogSpot, WordPress offers more options to optimize your blog for search engine where as in BlogSpot you are limited to certain settings.

Here are few posts which will help you to optimize your WordPress blog for search engine optimization

Recommended WordPress SEO Plugins
Plugins and support:

WordPress is blessed with features like plugin and a strong community to get support. When I am in BlogSpot, I spent lots of time editing my theme to show related posts and adding such features. WordPress makes your life easy using simple plugins for everything you need. By using plugins, you can achieve anything, and if not, you can take help of WordPress support forum to get custom code and extend the capabilities of your blog.

Here is a list of 2 recommended WordPress plugins.

Reputation :

This can be considered as human tendency or perception, that most of the people doesn’t see BlogSpot with a great eye. One of the simple reason is its free, and mass number of people are using it for Blackhat SEO, spamming and for affiliate landing pages. When talking about self-hosted blog, people thing that the person has paid for the service, and he is serious about his blog.

Theme and templates:

BlogSpot offers many templates but due to the commercial nature of WordPress, you will find unlimited free and Premium WordPress themes. Moreover, since you have FTP access, you can alter the complete look and feel of WordPress themes. Moreover, since you have FTP access, you can alter the completete look and feel of your WordPress theme.
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   Posting the valuable information is the important thing, but publishing compelling content isn’t enough to drive awareness and traffic for your blog audience. The next thing that would concern you is how to make sure your blog gains attention. Millions of blogs existing on the internet, your responsibility is having your blog getting noticed may not be an easy task. You need to actively promote your posts and engage new huge readership, if you want the exposure your blog deserves. You are probably already spending a lot of time on some of the marketing tools. Spreading the word about your blog business, building brand awareness and ultimately sales is the part of your blog business that is probably driving your anxiety levels up. Self-promotion of a blog on the internet is critical. In this article i have a few tips to employ the following promotion tactics, that will allow you to promote your blog online effectively.

Top 10 Proven Tips to Promote your Blog Online:

Social Media:

It has been proven effective lately to utilize social media to promote your blog. Social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest Instagram, Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious have more traffic because people usually visit these sites regularly to find content. First you have to create the account in that social media, After you have created accounts for each site take a few hours and start to fill up your Facebook page, Twitter timeline and Pinterest boards. Promoting your blogs by utilizing social media may take you more time because these sites are social sites. However, these actions can look like spam if you do not engage in social interaction. With more connections, many readers may only see your newest posts if you have a pop-up about them on your social page. Make interaction with your friends and your followers. All of these efforts will increase awareness of your blog and give it added exposure.

Guest Posts:

Another best idea to grab the audience is guest blogging already associated with a larger blog. It will allow you to share content within your niche with a whole new group of people. And the additional advantage is you can typically include 1-2 links back to relevant articles and traffic on your website. For the host, it brings diversity of authors and contents. Give your best to produce a great post when you do guest blogging since you are trying to give a good impression to an audience that is not yours. Do your research and determine which sites within your niche accept guest posts. Interact with that blogger and get started. You may also invite other bloggers to write in your blog as this can help improve your SEO and give your blog variation.

List of Most Popular Professional Indian Bloggers.
Respond to your Readers:

Making interaction with the people whom are visiting your blog is the essential part. May be you have no time to communicate with them i.e do not respond to messages or personally respond to comments, but if you skip them, you will lose your valuable visitors. Check your Email, be responsive and appreciative to your audience. Every minute you spend interacting on a personal level with your readers is well-spent.

Refuse to Place Ads:

Advertising is the best way of the revenue to your blog. But when you’re first launching your blog, you have a lot of work to do. Tweaking out different ad modules and trying to optimize your ads for a blog that is going to be making you $10 a month at best is a waste of your time. If you are focus on the success of your blog, just avoid the advertising business at the starting time. May be you can get the few income through that ads but the most valuable asset you have right now is your time. Instead, focus on building a real business and attracting a lot of people. After your blog is grown up, keep that ads as you wish.

Top 10 Real Ways to Make Money with your Blog.
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I have written about many blogging platforms that you can use to create a blog for yourself.  I usually suggest creating a blog using your own domain and hosting, and creating


We have talked a lot about self-hosted WordPress blogs in previous posts, and there is no doubt that this presents a better blogging platform when compared to free blogging platforms like BlogSpot.com and WordPress.com.

However, many newbies who want to start blogging don’t want to make an initial investment of funds to create a blog. This is completely reasonable.

There are many blogging platforms which offer users the ability to create free blogs. If you are looking for a simple free blog, my suggestion would be to start blogging with WordPress.com or BlogSpot.com.

Once you have some blogging experience, you can advance and become more professional with a self-hosted WordPress blog.

BlogSpot allows you to create a free blog, but it does have limitations.

However, as I mentioned above, for a beginner it is a great way to learn how to create a blog and begin the blogging process.



This post is dedicated to the “beginners” who are new to blogging and would like to get started by learning the basics involved in the process.


Before I begin the complete tutorial, there are a couple of things you should know:

Firstly, BlogSpot is a blogging platform powered by Google.  It offers you an opportunity to start a blog, but all your images will be hosted by Picasa (also part of Google).  BlogSpot, in this sense, is a Google-centric blogging platform.
Secondly, if the goal of your blog is to make money and to have a blog that is professional in appearance, I would recommend that you create your blog using WordPress. It’s easy, and with the help of our exclusive free WordPress guide, you can create your blog in the next 60 minutes.
Step-by-step Guide to Creating a Free Blog on BlogSpot:

To create your free BlogSpot blog site, head over to BlogSpot.com and login using your Google account. If you don’t have a Google (gmail) account, you can create one for free.

For a first time user, you will see an option to use the identity from your Google Plus profile, or you can use your limited BlogSpot profile. I recommend using your Google Plus profile.

Once you are logged in, click on “new blog” or click on this link to directly go there: Create a free blog

Name your blog:

The first thing you need to do is add a name and select your domain. I suggest you read “How To Select a Domain Name” for additional information.

Avoid using your personal name as the domain name, and instead use some generic domain name that you can brand later with a custom domain.

You can then select a blog template (you can change it anytime), and click on “Create Blog”.



Now your blog is created, but you are not done yet!

There are a few settings that you need to set on your newly created BlogSpot blog to make it easy to use.

You are now on the BlogSpot dashboard where you will see your blog’s backend. From here you can go to “Settings” and make changes to improve your blog’s visibility.

Here is a screenshot of what you should be seeing:



From here you can click on “Posts” > “New post” and start writing your very first blog post!

But before you write your first post, I would recommend that you go to “Pages” and create at least one “About” page describing who you are and what your blog is about.

You can read my post on why you need an “About” page for your blog.
Most importantly, you should change your blog’s template as the default one is generic and boring (in my opinion).

Here I have compiled a list of free BlogSpot templates that you can download and install on your blog. Alternatively, you can go to “Settings” > “Template” and change the template from there.

On this page, you can also add a logo to the header of your BlogSpot blog, and add or remove various other features.



Once you have a few blog posts up and running, you can go to “Sett