Inspite of good contents and SEO, isn't it possible for a blog or site from blogspot to rank in first page in search engines? Does SE gives preferences more to paid domains?
There are dominant sites using blogspot too. Just because of a paid site does not make search engines provide more value to them. Post regular content and do some social bookmarking. If you can focus on the niche and put a little more effort on the keywords, then I suppose hitting the front page is not that tough.