
Originally Posted by
BenK
There is nothing wrong with ranking a blogger blog. But don't expect a lot of instant traffic right off the bat without a serious backlink campaign.
I can tell you there is something nice about knowing you dont need to pay 7+ bucks a domain at the end of each year. I'm personally going to be stuck with a 7-10k USD domain bill in a year, so the pressure is on to make enough money to easily cover that. You don't have to worry about that with blogger blogs.
BUT, remember, with a blogger blog, you are giving up a lot of control, both in your ability to modify the layout/site and what sort of monatization you can use. Ebay has banned blogger blogs. What if amazon/CB or other affiliate services do the same? Unlikely, but this is the sort of control you give up.
Blogger blogs don't rank very well these days -- not without solid backlinks. I'm not saying they can't rank, but if you start using blogger blogs without a solid backlink campaign, kiss trickle traffic goodbye for a long time.
If you do opt for a domain name, try to get the exact keyword in there. I'll explain some reasons why in my next blog post.
If you opt ot use backlink networks, it's fine to run them on blogger blogs, but make sure you don't put adsense on that blog. I guess that means it would not be an andsense sniper. What you can do is have supporting blogger blogs or say hubpages/ezines that you can send backlinks to from AMA, etc and use those support sites to support your blogger blog.
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