posted by jaymee on Blog Contest, Blogging

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A domain is a site on the internet like http://xaeron.net. This will be consider as your identification label on the web. Most of the bloggers are using blogging platforms like Blogger. It is free but you will only get a subdomain. The URL blogs under Blogger is http://yourname.blogspot.com and that is not owned by you but by Blogger. So basically they can delete your blog anytime and for whatever reason. I haven’t seen them delete a blog just because they just want it but Blogger said that they delete what they think as spamblogs. Also, whenever you promote your blog, you also promote their site.

Most of the people are of the opinion that having your own domain commands more respect. It is like having your own house which is much better than living in an apartment right. Not only your visitors will have more confidence in your blog but also the “bots”. Having your own domain is better for SEO or search engine optimization point of view. The bots will crawl into your site derectly whereas if you are under a subdomain, search engines will focus more on the main site. If you are also into earning money online, particularly into “paid to write reviews”, there are some advertiser that doesn’t accepts bid from blogs under subdomain of Blogger and that is ofcourse because of the SEO thing I have said awhile ago. Blogs with own domains have more chance to be on top of the SERP (search engine result page). Another advantage in earning online schemes of a blog with a domain compared to a blog under a subdomain is that, I have read that in Google Adsense, earnings of a blog under own domain is directly proportional to traffic. Many also feels that it is easier to promote sites with own domain because the URL is shorter, therefore easier to remember.

I am giving away a domain this January and if you want to join, click here

*Note: This blog, which I considered my personal blog is under a subdomain, my URL is http://glitter.xaeron.net. Actually it is suppose to be http://glitter♥xaeron.net but the DNS didn’t allow it. lol. The domain http://xaeron.net is owned by Ron and I am acting as an administrator to that site. The purpose of having this blog under the subdomain of Chatron is that I want to promote that site. It is an online wap (but you can also visit there thru web in x2 version) pinoy community where you can chat, download files for your phone, share your views and opinions on forums and a whole lot more. Back to this blog, I consider this as my online diary, not my money making blog. It just so happen that there are some sites like Nuffnang Philippines and Paid to Review sites that are good to me and allows me to make money out of this personal blog of mine.

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