Hosted Weblog Platform

IMPORTANT NOTE: The first thing that has to be said and considered is the fundamental understanding that in order to make any money on the internet the most important factor is traffic. Even if you have the best blog with the most efficient conversion model available, if you don’t have traffic you aren’t going to make money.

Hosted weblogs are much like free hosting solutions for websites. Basically its you agreeing with the weblog hosting company that you are using their server space in exchange for some advertising space on your blog which will be credited to the weblog hosting company.

The first and most important benefit of having a hosted weblog platform to start off your blog is that it’s very cheap and easy to setup. The registration often takes less than 15 minutes and the hosting company normally has a wide variety of templates so you can make your blog look nice and “focused” in a mere few minutes. Furthermore, because it’s so easy to set up, many people are doing it and through the economies of scale, most blog hosting companies can actually provide the service for free.

Another great benefit that most people don’t realize about hosted weblogs is that the hosting companies already have very strong reputations with the search engines. Because of this, any sub-domain (e.g. myblog.bloghost.com) will be more readily accepted than a standalone weblog domain (e.g. www.myblog.com). Many people underestimate this benefit as it makes it much easier to monetize the site and much faster as you don’t need to wait for the in-famous sandbox of search engines to release your blog from their time-delay penalties.

With hosted weblog platforms the number of users is also much greater compared to standalone platforms. Because of this sheer volume of users using the service, if you do encounter any problems the solution is but an email of forum post away. The support, official or unofficial for hosted blog services is very wide and almost any plausible problem that you can encounter would already have had its precedence.

 Hosted Weblog Platform: Part 2