Impact Of Free Domains On Your Blog
Posted on October 28th, 2008 by tdomf_fed0d under BloggingThis is a Guest Post Written by Anirban Roy who owns a Webmaster Blog crazylinks4free. Check his blog out if you need anything related to Webmaster niche.
Blogging is a craze these days. If you are one of those crazy guys remember one thing before you start your blogging journey – never use a so-called free domain for your blog. As a newbie if you search the net you will find several free domains. A few of them like .TK or .CO.NR are quite popular. You can fall for them easily especially for .TK as it is a top level domain. But remember they do not not give you any dns support. They will just redirect your old url, say urname.blogspot.com, to www.urname.tk .
If you are a novice you will not realize the difference at first. It will create a framed webpage & you original site body will not be indexed by search engine. Just the meta description & meta keywords will get indexed. Thus when people will search a topic search engines like Google cannot find it even if you have written it in your blog post. You will keep loosing your potential visitors & never ever will have a decent traffic.
So if you can, buy a domain or else, just use blogspot.com or wordpress.com extension for your free blogs. After all, blog is nothing but dynamic contents & if search engine users cannot find these post contents, what is the point for blogging?
Thanks,
Anirban Roy
This post was submitted by Anirban Roy.
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October 28th, 2008 at 9:30 am
informative post for a new blogger like me. thnx for sharing
October 29th, 2008 at 5:44 am
Very sound advice. I’ve turned blue more then once trying to explain this to people.
October 30th, 2008 at 10:09 am
I agree with this article, Google and other search engines take them as positive.
November 1st, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Thanks for the advice. Didn’t really know much of the difference before.
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:47 am
this is very true coz i used .tk and .co.nr before and my site is not getting much traffic
November 5th, 2008 at 7:08 am
Good Infomation . Thanks
November 5th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Yes it is true, I tried blogging once and when I tried searching it over google I cannot find it in the list even though what I searched is like the main topic of my blog. This blog of yours is very helpful to many specially those who does not know much of blogging or for starters.
November 10th, 2008 at 2:46 am
Yeah, using blogspot or wordpress domains sucks, so I’ve got myself a .com domain
thanks
November 18th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Very informative post from a new blogger like me. Thanks for sharing it!
November 20th, 2008 at 7:04 am
yes I’ve read a post saying like this and I want to have dot com but I do not have credit card to pay for it. I appreciate your advice, thanks
November 20th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Thank you for the info, I’m looking forward to by my domain name
November 20th, 2008 at 7:07 am
someone told me this also now I’m planning to buy a domain
November 20th, 2008 at 7:09 am
yes I’ve been trying that, now I’m planning to buy a domain, let me ask one question how can have a unlimited domain name?
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
There are some free domains with real IP and DNS support. You must also have a host where you can set a virtual host for your domain… but it’s possible!
December 1st, 2008 at 5:00 am
Good info:) never knew about such non-indexing… and never thought of it too…
December 10th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Interesting article. Thanks for really informative post. I am looking forward to by my domain name