Why Should you use a Custom Domain Name for your Blog?

Benefits of Custom Domain Name for a Blog

For some, blogging is a way to live life and for others, it is just a platform to share their thoughts. However, whether it is for making money or for expressing thoughts, the custom domain name is vital to get done the purpose.

But bloggers obviously think about initial investment, as it costs from $10 to $15 per year which depends on the competition. For some keywords, it may be even more. Whatever, but cost matters for most of the newbie bloggers. Though it is tough, you should invest for a custom domain name, otherwise, you may experience the following disadvantages:

Some of the free blogging platforms include:

• Blogger.com
• LiveJournal.com
• WordPress.com

 

Disadvantage of free domain name:

1. Looks unprofessional: If your blog domain is like cleverthoughts.worpress.com or lifestory.blogspot.com, it makes your audience think you’re unprofessional. Yes, absolutely it doesn’t add any value to your purpose. Custom domain is even important for blogs that provide information on digital marketing training, Machine Learning Training, Blockchain Training Course, Data Science Training, Deep Learning Training, Power BI Training, SEO training, mobile app development training, website development companies and their services, as there is a chance of getting contacted by those companies to list them on the blog as a paid service.

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2. Difficult to remember for users: If your domain name is not customized, it will be difficult even for your loyal customers to remember. So they mayn’t show interest to visit your site by entering the domain name. If you don’t want to happen that, then you need a custom domain name.

3. Less advertising revenue: Sooner or later, you’ll outline a plan to make money from your blog. Many advertising services and advertisers don’t prefer sites with a subdomain like wordpress.com or blogspot.com. Services like buysellads don’t accept subdomains, so you may lose around 50% of your potential revenue. Though Google AdSense program accepts it, don’t prefer it much. So you may lose your main revenue source.

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4. No custom email id: This is not an issue for all bloggers, but really an issue for blogger who needs to communicate with clients for the business that is run on the blog. With the custom domain name, you will get custom email ids like admin@360edukraft.com or ram@360edukraft.com. This gives you a more professional look.

5. It may affect SEO ranking: SEO ranking is crucial for any blog to achieve the desired success. When you change to a custom domain, you will lose your ranking. Then you have to create backlinks from scratch. This happened in my case as well. First I created my own blog to learn SEO with subdomain and even I created some backlinks for it, when I became serious about blogging, I created a custom domain, but I had to create backlinks from scratch.

6. Difficult to brand your blog: As a custom domain presents you as an unprofessional blogger, it is difficult to brand your blog. Even if you share posts on social media, people may not show much interest in visiting the blog. Some feel it is spamming.

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How to create a custom domain name?

If you already have a custom domain name, you can map that to the blogging platform you are using. Otherwise, you can directly purchase the custom domain on WordPress or other service providers like GoDaddy. Even you can purchase a domain from a web hosting company.

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Benefits of Custom Domain Name for a Blog

Why should you buy a custom domain for your BlogSpot blog?

• #1 It is easy to discover
• #2 It is memorable
• #3 It is search engine friendly
• #4 It helps in improving the page rank of your blog
• #5 Maintains your SEO and Alexa ranking
• #6 Google Adsense Approval
• #7 Advertising
• #8 Can create subdomains
• #9 Can create a professional email address
• #10 Web Promotion
• #11 Control the backend Code
• #12 Ability to build domain authority

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Conclusion:

Custom domain has many tangible benefits compared to the money you save with a subdomain. It costs around $10, and depending on the competition, it would be more or less. Happy blogging. Hope you got almost of web hosting. While choosing between, compare changing prices and features and even the support they offer. If you want to learn more about hosting you can enroll in our digital marketing course, where you will learn complete details about web hosting. Apart from SEO Training will also provide Power BI Training, Blockchain Online training Course, Machine Learning training Course, and Data Science Course.