2. This article is about blogging and why you should never
blog on a free host like blogger.com or wordpress.com I
am writing this to alert people out there who are building
blogs on free blog hosts like blogger.com and
wordpress.com
3. Installing wordpress is free and gives you full control over
your blog. There are other platforms like moveable type to
choose from as well. Take a look around and find the
platform you like or that best fits your blogging style. I've
learned an expensive lesson and now will only build blogs
on my own domain names.
6. They have a new out of control spam bot. Search the
blogger help forums and you will find the horror stories.
Legitimate blogs are being deleted, people are getting
locked out of their blog until reviewed, and assumed to be
a spammer because either the bot flagged the blog or
someone clicked the little flag button at the top of all
blogger blogs.
7. That and the fact that they have constant problems with
the publishing getting stuck at 0%, slow load times, etc. it
makes blogging through blogger.com a buggy experience
at best and your content or reason for blogging is up to
someone else's interpretation of what is or is not
legitimate.
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9. As far as wordpress.com, they are just as bad. If the blog
links to a website and looks as if it might be promoting
people to go to that website they will suspend your
account without warning and lock you out of all the
content.
10. I'm not sure what they think blogs are for, but they seem
to think they have a noble purpose in life and that they
alone decide what is a "genuine blog" or not.
11. A "genuine blog" is one that is controlled by the individual
who writes to it, not one that must adhere to someone
else's idea of what their blog should look like and what it
should say.
12. If you blog on freehosts just be aware your content and
your blog is in the hands of others who will decide for the
world whether or not your blog should be seen by others.
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15. Many times the person deciding your fate is someone who
has never had any authority over other people and who
think that now they have Godlike powers to decide the
fate of content written by others. These are people who
likely produce no content of value themselves and think
they know what is best for the rest of the world.