Is it better to use a free blogging service or set up a registered domain

As I said before, the benefits of having your own registerd domain name, far outway the cost of buying a domain and getting hosting for it.

You can register a domain for around $10 and hosting reallly isn't that expensive these days. Maybe $50 to $100 per year. Off course you might find cheaper hosting than this and you will definately find more expensive but you can use this as a guideline.

Before you make this decision, you need to know whether you'd like to make any money out of your blog. If you're in it to have a bit of fun and share information with like minded people and aren't fussed about making any money from it, I'd go with the free option as it won't cost you a penny and it's perfectly capable of providing what you need.

The only problem with this, is if you change your mind midway through and decide you would like to earn some money from your blog. You might set up a highly successful blog that could potentially earn a decent amount of money but you don't have any control over it because it was free.

The main difference between having a free blog with a site like www.blogger.com vs having your own domain is "Control." You basically you give up control of that blog if you register with a free site.

If you had own domain name and decided later down the track that you would like to earn some money from your blog, as you receive a good number of visitors, NO PROBLEM. Simply put some ads on your site and your away.

This is something you definately want to take into consideration when setting your blog. "How much control would you like?"

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Wordpress is a popular blogging service you can use via a registered domain. It allows you to upload your blog with minimal effort and make changes to your site without needing any coding knowledge whatsoever. If you decide to go down this path, you want to make sure the hosting account you choose includes Fantastico. Fantastico is basically a software program within your hosting account that allows you to easily install wordpress without requiring any FTP knowledge. Without Fantastico you will need to upload the Wordpress files directly to your registered domain name using FTP. If you don’t know what this is, just make sure your hosting account includes Fantastico and you’ll be fine.

Wordpress provides many other great features such as plugins, themes and widgets but more on that later.

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