Why you should buy your own domain

 If you are serious about blogging then you should think of hosting it on your own domain. It’s not easy to switch a popular blog from a sub-domain to a self hosted domain, so I would suggest you to host your blog on your down from the day one. Here are some benefits you will enjoy with your own domain that you were missing with a sub-domain :

1. Website address – When you buy your own domain, the name your blog/website will be like www.yourdomain.com which looks sound and easy to remember for your blog readers. And in case you place your website on free hosting websites then your website address would have been www.yourdomain.blogspot.com (for Blogger blogs) or www.yourdomain.worpress.com (for WordPress blog). Now you can decide which website URL looks sounds and easy to remember.
2. Multiple E-mail addresses – When you have your own domain, you can create many e-mail addresses like info@yourdomain.com, webmaster@yourdomain.com, sales@yourdomain.com, yourname@yourdomain.com for different purposes and if required can point all incoming emails to these accounts to a central email account on your domain.
3. Directory listings – it becomes really difficult to get listed on Top web directories if your website is hosted on some free web hosts. And if you have your own domain, chances of submitting and getting approval becomes easy to some extent.
4. Brand Building – When you have your own domain shows your professional approach towards your business and thus will help in creating lots of value and trust among your website readers. People will not trust much on your services if it is hosted on free hosting sites like blogger or wordpress.
5. Promoting your domain – When you have hosted your website on free hosting servers, you are going to promote a sub-domain. And the first benefit of that promotion will go to your web hosting company and you will be the last person who is going to benefit from that. All links pointing to your free hosted domain will also be pointing to your webhosting company. Suppose you have a blog on WordPress with address www.yourdomain.wordpress.com, now all links pointing to your address will also be pointing to WordPress your free web hosting company. But in case of your own domain, you are going to promote that and thus will help you only.
6. Better search engine rankings – Having your own domain will hell you achieve higher search engine rankings if it is well optimized.
7. Better advertising options – there are many advertisers who will never love to advertise on a free hosted sub-domain. And with free hosted sub-domains, you will have limited access to everything. There are many free hosting companies that will not allow you to add any kind of advertisement to your sub-domain. But in case of your own domain, you will have access to everything.
8. Website layout – You can use any style sheet, Java script or templates of your choice on your owned domain. Even you can create a template of your own and use that. So you will have more freedom with your website design and functionality. But in case of sub-domain, you cannot do anything in coding section and you will have to stay with the limited templates that are offered to you.
9. Selling options – if you are able to get some real page rank, organic traffic and alexa ranking for your owned website, then you could think of selling it to someone on the internet. But you will not have any much chances of selling it if it was hosted on free servers.

Now if you don’t have a domain and convinced that you need one, you can get it from HostICan for $6.95 per month including 2,000 GB disk space only.