It is because Search Engine Optimization (SEO) things. From my own experience, no matter how hard we try to optimize the free blog, it is surely will be finally defeated by self-hosted blog. As you may already aware that i have telecommunication blog which hosted in one of greates free blog providers, blogspot.com. I already did hard work to optimize it to look great in eyes of search engine. I thought that my hard work already give a great result – that telecommunication blogspot blog get top ten rank in some of keyword, and it receive PR 4 in six month. It seems perfect, right?

If you agree, my telecommunication blog result is some of blogging success, let me tell the next stories about that telecommunication blogspot blog. The PR may be a great success but not if we consider of the SERP. I aware of it after compare the SERP with my friend telecommunication blog which in the same niche with my telecommunication blogspot. My telecommunication blog SERP seems really bad when i do the comparison. My friend blog beat my telecommunication blog almost in all of my telecommunication blog greatest keyword. And please note that my friend telecommunication blog is 6 month younger (i think it is even more younger than that) from my telecommunication blog.

So, where is the difference — The difference which make the oldest blog with more post and more SEO hard work is beaten like that?

The answer is simple. My friend blog use self-hosted blog with WordPress as blog platform. Yeah – that’s the only answer why his new telecommunication blog beaten my old telecommunication blog. He can easily beat my blogpost blog because he can put any SEO plugin easily which I do not have in blogspot platform. In here, I do not tell how search engine calculate it – i do not believe that someone know how search engine calculate SERP anyway – i only tell how i experience the difference between free hosted blog and paid hosted blog. And yes, the comparison is apple to apple.

Conclusions

Own domain self-hosted is always far more better from free blog service (such as blogspot.com and wordpress.com.) in term of search engine optimization (SEO). Believe me! I already experienced it. I do not use any calculation – no one know how search engine calculate SERP by the way – I just use my common sense when face real experience about it. So, if you want to get highest result in SERP, always use own domain self-hosted blog.

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It is about users characteristic and not about technical side. Yes, I write my opinion according users characteristic of two biggest free blog providers in the world, WordPress.com and Blogspot.com. My opinion is base on my blogging past experience in WordPress.com and Blogspot.com world. Of course, it is only for Indonesian users. For others country, I do not have experience yet so can not tell much. I write this article because I found that there is interesting unique characteristic for each WordPress.com and blogspot.com users in general way. Yeah, the uniqueness is always interesting.

The Difference

In my opinion, WordPress.com blogger is less aware of SEO technique than Blogspot.com users. It is because WordPress.com do not allow monetize the blog which make less point to care about SEO. The important point is only writing and commenting. Therefore, WordPress.com users are most as forum member which talk each others trough blog. This situation also makes the WordPress.com users do not care about link. They link what they like without any hesitation. I even found that there are some post contain very lot of link (almost 100 and more) in it.

That  different for Blogspot.com users. Blogspot.com users really care about SEO technique. It is because Blogspot.com allows blog monetizing which make SEO become one of many important parts in blog monetizing. There are many SEO technique do in blogspot.com blog. It is include link to others of course. Yes, blogspot.com users really care about link to others. Blogspot.com users really tend to exchange link as many as they can to build strong link development instead link others blog for free. They tend to count every link benefit so if there are no benefits for their blog — they tend to not link it even the content may really great.

I, my self, do over than 100 link exchanges in my blogspot.com blog and it make my Blogspot.com blog PR increase to 3 in two months. But, don’t ask about quality traffic, it not as good as my WordPress.com blog. Yes, my WordPress.com blog have more quality traffic. Quality traffic means that the readers come to blog because really want to read the blog and have discussion about the writing. And, that’s not happen in my Blogspot.com blog. It seems that the traffic only come because I already come to their blog or lure me to visit their blog.

Conclusion

So, I conclude that free blog providers features which make the blogger characteristic. Yeah, you can always choose the most suitable free blog provider features for your needs. If you only want share your writing with others and do not want to care the SEO and others blog technique for monetize, you can use WordPress.com. WordPress.com is more like a big forum than blog in my opinion. And, you should choose Blogspot.com if you want to monetize your blog. It is because Blogspot.com allows blog monetizing, allows JavaScript, and allows template customizing. You need all of those three for great earning in blog monetizing.




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I want to tell you a happy news or I can call it very happy news. Now, Bloggers no need to worry about their blog updating if there are no internet connection at their current position. And also bloggers no need to worry if we are in mobile journey. Yup, we no need to worry as long as we still have a mobile phone that connected to mobile network. We always still can do blogging only by that.

We can do blogging by SMS or MMS features that support by almost all telecommunication operators in earth. Yup, it is right; you can blogging everywhere and every time as long as we have an active mobile phone that supports SMS and MMS. What a happy news for we as maniac blogging, isn’t it? So please read carefully about how to do it at my writing below.

Mobile Blogging

Description

When you sent a text to BLOGGR (256447) or photo to go@blogger.com from your mobile phone will make that text or photo posting to your new blog.

How?

MMS

• Sent MMS or email contain of ‘REGISTER” to go@blogger.com
• We will get answer that contain of new mobile blog address, plus claim code
• Do post to your new mobile blog address, or use claim code for connect your mobile phone to another blog

SMS

• Sent SMS that contain of ‘REGISTER’ to BLOGGR (256447)
• We will get answer that contain of new mobile blog address, plus claim code.
• Post to your new mobile blog, or use claim code for connect your mobile phone to another blog
• You can stop SMS message by type STOP and sent it to BLOGGR (256447)
• For help, type HELP and sent to BLOGGR (256447)
• Unfortunately, sent message/SMS to BLOGGR(256447) only at USA for now

Please note that this article refers to blogger/blogspot user. It may need some plugin for WordPress.org user. And I don’t know if WordPress.com has this mobile blogging facility.

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