Juuust a Bit Outside Moves to it's Own Domain
My husband Chris began blogging on a blogger domain around six months ago. Much like his life, the blog is about sports.
After much consideration, we have purchased juuustabitoutside.com. As with my blogs, it is hosted on Go Daddy and constructed with Go Daddy's Quick Blogcast. While it does not offer as much flexibility as Wordpress, it's simplicity is why it works for us.
Chris and I both work with companies that connect advertisers with bloggers to have their products featured in blog entries. One reason for the move is that blogs on Blogger and other free blogging platforms are not considered as valuable to advertisers.
Along with the assumption that bloggers who use free hosting are less serious about blogging (not always true), a real possibility that sponsored posts could be banned by the service provider at any time. It happened with Wordpress' free subdomains some time ago.
With Google owning Blogger, there is a real treat that terms of service with change to disallow any paid advertising. Google has come down hard on blogs around the blogosphere for "selling links" which is what they consider any work for PayPerPost or any other company. Not to beat the dead horse of this topic, but Google removed PageRank from thousands of blogs for going about their business, stating publicly that those blogs are worthless in their eyes.
My reason for sharing this here is that I would encourage any blogger who has a goal of making any income on their blog to make the transition to paid hosting on their own domain. It is not expensive or difficult. You have compete assurance that no one can tell you what you can or cannot publish on your site.
For sports fans, check out Juuust a Bit Outside. Without bias, I can say that Chris is knowledgeable and entertaining when it comes to the arena of sports.
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