subject: 3 Benefits of Having Your Own Self-Hosted Blog [print this page] 3 Benefits of Having Your Own Self-Hosted Blog
Setting up a free blog is easy. You can choose any one of the popular social media sites and use one of their built-in blogs. You can also use on of the free blogging platforms like Blogger or WordPress.
However, here are many benefits to paying a small fee to own and host your own blog.
Self-hosted means you have purchased web hosting space or virtual real estate to host your own websites. As a matter fact you can host multiple blogs on one hosting account for the same monthly fee.
Besides hosting your own, the best blogging platform to use is WordPress. They also have a free version, and even though it is much more flexible than other platforms, it is still limited.
3 Benefits of Having Your Own Self-Hosted Blog
1. Ownership is always Better- When you have a free blog, you do not actually own the the virtual real estate that your blog is hosted on. That means if anything goes wrong with the hosting site, then your blog will be gone too.
Also if for some reason there the hosting site does not like your content, they could just delete your blog.
2. Plug-ins- Plug-ins are available with a self-hosted blog. Plug-ins allow you to optimize your blog fully for the search engines and make it much more user friendly. They also allow you to automate many of the mundane tasks associated with blogging.
Basically, the functionality of your blog is severely limited without plug-ins.
3. You have an asset- Websites are online real estate. Traffic, links, and a host of other variables affect the value of your website.
When you drive traffic to, and put content on a free website, you are increasing the value of that website. Why not work on developing the value of your own asset.
A business is an asset that you can build up and sell if you want to. The same is true for a self-hosted blog.
