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The importance of having your own domain name and hosting for your blog or website cannot be stressed enough. Many people start with a free website or blog for testing. They want to see if they will like it. That’s fair enough. But if you go down this path, be prepared to channel your free site sooner rather than later.

The perfect situation is to sign up for your own domain name and web hosting right from the start. It’s not a huge investment, but you’ll save yourself a lot of despair and regrets in the long term. The web is plagued with stories of people who started a site at no cost which took off surprisingly.

Once it is doing well, they are hesitant to let go of it. They don’t want to lose all those priceless incoming links pointing straight to their site. So they hang in with the free site a bit longer, until they feel they are locked in, and it’s too late to alter.

While some blog and website owners have no plans to put on the market their site when they start on, there may come a time when they re-evaluate this. While you can put on the market the content you’ve written for a wordpress.org blog or blogspot, for example, you do not own the blog platform, so your site is not as costly for resale.

Many free websites are able to be tendered free because they have ad banners. If you are a business owner, it does not show a professional face if you have a web address from a free site with ads you have no power over it. Recognizing the significance of your own domain name and hosting is planning for the future.