Hi all First i have made free wordpress blog at themespalace. I dont get any traffic on it. Then i have made a paid wordpress blog. themespalace This give me huge traffic.. I think paid is better than free. What is your opinion...
@biggy Bop You have any other reason except this "pay". because some free blogs are earning more than many paid blogs.
You get what you pay for? what is it you get? I didn't look into this for over a year but I cant remember what paid blogs offer if anything. If I stain my brain I think it was support and your own custom domain name...... woo! does anyone know? seems a bit of a pointless debate with out any info. I would guess that a better approach would be get a free blog and take the money you save and use it to promote your blog. I would expect you would get more for your money that way, better result than taking a paid blog.
Personally, i think Paid one is better, much better, you can 100% own your blog, you have backup, that you can easily restore if something happen. Free wordpress.com blog, you can't monetize it unless you have HUGE traffic and approved by wordpress.com. blogger blogspot, you can monetize but you can't own it 100%. With my paid blog, which i can state, it is also free since i can easily cover my 3 years hosting cost with about a month earning from AdSense..and, i own it 100%.
I guess if blogger goes down it would be a pain....has any one ever had it happen? After a quick search it seems you can back up your blogger blog http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/backup-your-blogger-blog/5984/ So seems like a waste of money to me. By 100% own are you talking copyright because you autmaticaly have copyright if you can prove it's your content.
Actually the paid blog gives you full freedom you can optimize it with full ftp support,you also get more bandwidth and uptime.
Backing up our own blog that can be done by our webhost or ourselves is an advantage that maybe can be done in blogger blogspot. But there are more advantages that can be done with our paid blog than free blogspot. I have seen many examples or forum posts that shows blogger blogspot accounts are disabled without notice after several years. And those are threads from this forum, i am sure there are alot of others too in other forums. Owning 100% my blog is the most important to me
I would also get a self hosted wordpress blog and register a domain, a domain costs less than $10 and hosting is very cheap and you'll be in complete control. A hosted blog can be good for encouring people to comment and get involved as they can find you through the blogging services.
I dont see much difference between a paid and free blog , all depends on how better you promote your site and your content.
It depends, if for example your hosting sucks and your blog down all the time I'm sure you'd think that using the free one is better.