If you plan on being serious about making money by blogging, then guess what? YOU NEED A DOMAIN NAME.

I have heard every argue in the book on whether one REALLY needs a domain name. I can tell you first hand, you are going to WANT a domain name.

First of all, when was the last time you remembered a website address that was not a .com? Have you ever remembered a page like www.somehost.com/somesite? Or somesite.somehost.com? They are hard to remember!

You want something that is easy to remember and fits in well with you website content. A name like totalflattery.com for a blog about relationships is much easier to remember then something like totalflattery.wordpress.com.

Making your address easy to remember is not the only advantage to a domain name. It also help with search engines and link trades. Many directory sites will not deal with websites who do not have a domain name.

You can also use keywords in selecting your domain name to help with search engine results. Something like mymusicblog.com will get a lot better results when people search for music blog in a search engine then would jimsfavoritemusic.com

So I highly recommend getting yourself a domain name. Now you can search the internet all day looking for the best deal on a domain name, but I have found that GoDaddy.com is by far the cheapest at any given moment.

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