
Hello and welcome to the Warrior Mom's own site, <http://www.warriormomandcraniokid.com>! Eversince I started blogging, it has always been a goal to me to have my own domain name. What does it feel like having your own domain for your blog? I feel like a full-pledged blogger! :)
Having your own domain name is like
having your personal space in the World Wide Web – a space which someone can’t
just own easily. I once asked myself: ‘Why
would it be so important? I can have it for free!’ Yes, you can indeed have
a free domain from free website hosting sites like WordPress and Blogger, but
it will only give you less of the opportunities that you can have compared to
having your own domain name. You might not need it today, but you will - in the future, just like me on my college days settling for a domain from the free hosting site I have chosen.
Having your own domain name marks your
professionalism and openness to business ideas and to potential clients who
wants to advertise with you. But why is it important, really? I've listed five
reasons why you should get your own domain name.
It builds your credibility.
When I say having your own domain marks your professionalism, it means that you take blogging seriously. Not that you're not serious if you only have www.yourfreehostingsite.com/yourusername, but having your own means you take time and spend money naming it as your own.
You get higher ranking on search engines.
Some search engines give more importance to those pages with own domain name compared to those under a free hosting site. According to steps-to-make-your-own-website.com, your own home page with a free domain website is in fact the home page of a subdomain versus your webhost’s home page is the actual homepage for that domain name. Your own domain name helps you to get that free search engine traffic that is vital for your internet success.
The web becomes more aware of you.
When you get your own domain name, it increases your presence on the World Wide Web. Your page rank can be on the first 10 pages of a search result.
Your site can easily be remembered.
Before purchasing my own domain, I used to have warriormomandcraniokid.wordpress.com and warriormomandcraniokid.blogspot.com. My friends and followers used to ask me the "What's your site address again?" question over and over. I also got fed up typing the long site address and decided to have the shorter one. Furthermore, you can also spread your site address easily and quickly by just having a dot com and not the usual username dot hosting site dot com.
You get your personalized e-mail address.
Along with your own domain name, you can also have your personalized e-mail address like yourname@yourdomain.com, which is more convenient and secure for other people to transact and make business with you. Thus, you can create your professional e-mail addresses for other members nor parts of your business or website like sales or support.
Aside from the listed points, there are a lot of importance that having an own domain name can give you. Besides, there are a lot of hosting companies that offer cheap services nowadays. Why don't you have one for your site now?

Some search engines give more importance to those pages with own domain name compared to those under a free hosting site. According to steps-to-make-your-own-website.com, your own home page with a free domain website is in fact the home page of a subdomain versus your webhost’s home page is the actual homepage for that domain name. Your own domain name helps you to get that free search engine traffic that is vital for your internet success.
The web becomes more aware of you.
When you get your own domain name, it increases your presence on the World Wide Web. Your page rank can be on the first 10 pages of a search result.
Your site can easily be remembered.
Before purchasing my own domain, I used to have warriormomandcraniokid.wordpress.com and warriormomandcraniokid.blogspot.com. My friends and followers used to ask me the "What's your site address again?" question over and over. I also got fed up typing the long site address and decided to have the shorter one. Furthermore, you can also spread your site address easily and quickly by just having a dot com and not the usual username dot hosting site dot com.
You get your personalized e-mail address.
Along with your own domain name, you can also have your personalized e-mail address like yourname@yourdomain.com, which is more convenient and secure for other people to transact and make business with you. Thus, you can create your professional e-mail addresses for other members nor parts of your business or website like sales or support.
Aside from the listed points, there are a lot of importance that having an own domain name can give you. Besides, there are a lot of hosting companies that offer cheap services nowadays. Why don't you have one for your site now?

Having your own domain is great, I'll definitely get my own, once I have my own brand/business up ;)
ReplyDeleteThats true mommy! But for now I dont need own domain since hubby has one hehehhe... Thanks for the tip
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ReplyDeleteHaving your own domain has so many advantages, parang brand ng gamot, branded ka pag may own domain if not, parang generic...My only problem with my own domain is napahirap i-upgrade sa adsense, until now hindi ko pa malagyan ng adsense and custom domain pero pero yung blogspot ko matagal nang may adsense, yan an goal ko ngayon...to upgrade my adsense account with my custom domain. Nice post and very relevant :)
ReplyDeleteI totally agree on all points. I just started blogging and had been reading up on this topic. I actually want to have my own domain while I'm just starting due to the above reasons and so that there's no need to transition over. But I'm debating if it will be worth it since I'm mainly using my account just as an online journal. Then again, I'll never know if I'd need it in the future. I think for now, it's about me evaluating the purpose of my page.
ReplyDeleteIt does help to have our own domain, especially if we want to earn with our blogs. It's exciting to come up with our own unique name for our dot coms.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your domain name! I agree that it is very important for any blogger, tutal mura lang naman. I did not avail of a personalized email, though. :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for this tip mommy :)
ReplyDeleteI have my own domain as of the moment, but it's also a free one cause I still don't have a budget for it...thus I have to go through all the security checks sa facebook which is a bit of a hassle.. how much is your domain every year? :D thankies!
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