Why you shouldn’t create a blog on a free blogging platform

Why you shouldn’t create a blog on a free blogging platform

Limit 1: if you think the companies allowing you to create a blog on their blogging platforms for free do so because they love you, you’re wrong. They only do so to make money off of you. That’s why they put up adverts on your blog and ask you to pay to enjoy upgrades. Go for a self-hosted blog so you won’t be a wheel in a car working to make another company rich.

Limit 2: you’re not allowed to do affiliate marketing on free blogs. Some of them further prohibit Google Adsense and other cool ways to make money blogging. That’s not how to start a blog rightly.

Limit 3: you can’t use any of the thousands of amazing plugins and themes available to a self-hosted blog. After making a blog, plugins help you extend the functionality of the blog, the same way apps extend the functionality of a phone. Imagine having a phone without being able to install and use apps. Is it cool to live in a house you’re prohibited from painting and designing? If it’s not, then it sucks to have a blog without being able to use a theme on it.

Limit 4: you can’t use a custom email like John@AmericanFashionCity.com. That’s not cool. You deserve something better.

Limit 5: on free blogging platforms, your blog can be deleted at anytime if the company’s server mistakes your blog for a spam, or if you accidentally violate their rules. And guess what – you have no remedy if that happens.

LIMIT 6: You don’t control your content – the blogging platform does. They could shut you down any time, and for any reason. Don’t believe me? 

LIMIT 7: The web address of your blog will be long and hard to remember(like yourfreeblog.blogspot.com) instead of a catchy, branded address you choose

LIMIT 8: You’re not allowed to advertise on most free blogging platforms, making it much harder to ever make money from blogging.