Domain Name And Hosting Tips For Your First Blog

When looking for the right domain name for your blog, it’s important that you keep some essential points in mind. Here is a simplified guide to help you understand what’s important about blog domain names.As you are just beginning your blog, one tends to indulge some points that aren’t all that important. No worries – been there, done that. I made more mistakes on a daily basis than I have fingers. But hey, all those stupid blogging mistakes of mine have helped me forge a profitable and interest career.

So when you’re decide on what you’re going to blog about, you probably need to come up with a domain name for your blog. There are three choices here : free hosting (with the chosen username followed by .wordpress.com, .blogspot.com, etc), free hosting (with unique domain name like bloggingindia.in) and self-hosting with unique domain name.

I’ll explain both these options in just a bit, but before that just think a little more about your blog. What kind of functions are you looking for? Is this really something you want to do in the years to come? How serious are you about digging into your subject? Answering these questions is going to help you making the next decision about hosting and domain names.

Pros And Cons

• Free Hosting with username.free-hosting-provider-name.com

This option is the very basic and rudimentary choice you can have when beginning blogging. All you have to do it to sign up on services like WordPress and Blogspot, and you’ll have your .wordpress or .blogspot prepared and online in no time. But is it the way to do?

If you were to go for this particular option is would be cheap. Actually – free! The domain name and hosting is provided for free by the provider. Same with the content management system (CMS), which is build to be especially easy to use for beginner bloggers.

If all you want is a footprint on the web that speaks about you, your ideas, interests and opinions – then this is a great choice. If you actually want to earn some money directly from your efforts here – read on.

• Free Hosting with Paid Unique Domain Name

A domain name for your blog will cost you a maximum of $10 for the entire year. And that’s without discount, which trust me, you’ll find a lot of if you look around. You can contact me through the comments for discount coupons for the major providers. I tend to have them lying around. You can access the guys I trust above all with my many domain names below:

GoDaddy.com – World’s No.1 Domain Name Registrar

Apart from offering some awesome discounts pretty much every other day, GoDaddy is reliable and their support is very helpful with any problems you may have. You can also buy the domain name for a maximum of 10 years. If you do chose to do so, there are some good discounts to brings down the price.

• Paid Hosting and Paid Domain Name

Now this is the way to go when you choose to get really serious about blogging. It’s best if you buy your domain name and hosting from one provider. That’s a mistake I have unfortunately have had to live with. Don’t make the same one!

Not only does this give you complete control over every aspect of your blog, it also helps ensure that you never loose all that precious content.

I’ve seen far too many people fall from the top of Google’s search engine rankings, just because their free hosting provider decided to suspend their accounts. The day you think things might be getting serious with your blogging career, you opt for this choice. It is the only way to go.

I personally would suggest opting for another product provided by GoDaddy. The staff will help you set things up in no time. What’s great is that it also includes a one-step setup for WordPress, which is without a doubt the most popular blogging platform out there. Here’s link for what I’m talking about:
Blog Hosting at GoDaddy.com

Let me know of any doubts you have about the domain name and hosting for your blog in the comments below.