What Is The First Thing You Should Know Before Blogging?

When I am starting to blog, all I just want to do is to have fun and make some decent income online. So my mindset is to have a free blog to start with. So I tried some Free We bhosting and created an account there and to make the story short I have build a site that has already thousand of visits daily. I have built that site for almost a year and put my time and efforts there to get that kind of achievements. I work day and night when I have a vacant time forlink building, social bookmaking’s and do some Search Engine Optimization
(SEO) on that site, until that unforgettable moment come. . .

I receive a notice from that free-host that my account have been disabled due to the amount of traffic my site received and they cannot hold the bandwidth anymore so they flagged my site and I cannot take the ownership anymore.

Well, that is very sad to say but it was a big lesson for me and an experience I always have to remember. All the efforts I've done are wasted and the time I spend to that site came to nothing, but I can't do anything about it, because, that is life, you have to gain
failure in order to gain success.

That is why I am sharing this short experience on my blogging career that you have to invest some money to gain better results, don't always think of freebies about webhosting and domain naming because they are limited and you are risking your valuable time and efforts. It is important also to listen from experienced blogger or webmaster before implementing project about web hosting and domain name owning.

What is a Domain Names?

(Well, right now I am not going to discuss here the technical definitions about domain names and web hosting, but I want to explain on a very simple way so that beginners can relate on this topic.)

A domain name is like an address of your house. It addresses where your home are
located. We can compare our home from hosting or the one who makes our site live 24 hours a day on the World Wide Web. The host do all the maintenance of our site while
and keep up our site alive on web, like videos, pictures, texts and all other programs. The Host are what we called the Server or the Body of our site, while domain names serves as the address on how visitors will find our home.

Importance of Domain Names and Web host

Imagine, if you have a house but you don't know the address of it, how can you promote it to other so that they can visit your home? And what about, you know the address of the house but when you visit there you can't find anything on that lot or on that site?Just like also on Web hosting and Domain Names, it is important that you have both of this two.

Important Reason Why You Should Have a Good Domain Names and a Reliable Webhost

The advantage of having a good domain names on the web is the fact that they search most by searchers on the internet. A popular name can be easily find by people when using the search engine, and resulted on more visitors daily.

For example, a name "Britney" are more popular than "Brittney", although they look the same but they are totally different.

Another example of a good name is "dog" because most dog lovers will search first for the word dog on search engine than the word German Sheppard, k9 or puppy, although these terms have fewer searches they are extremely targeted names for people who want to have info about the dog or customers who want to buy.

What if my domain names are not a popular name or familiar word, how people will find my site?

The answer is thru link building or promoting your link to other webmasters and bloggers, but this is another discussion so we will talk about it later.

What about Reliable Webhost?

It is important that you run your site on a very strong server. Imagine that you have a house that has plenty of people visiting and the structures of your site are poor and insufficient on spaces, can you imagine what will happen? Your site will always break down because of low quality structure and it will be unavailable to other who wants to visit your site, or in other words, you arejust wasting your money.

So the main purpose of this post was to inform the reader who want to blog for the first time that if you want to gain profits from your site and don't want to risk your efforts and time on blogging, you should invest some money.

Remember this famous quote about life,

Plant something and you will harvest something,

Put nothing and you will get nothing.

My next post will be on what is domain name on technical side and how to pick-up the
right name for your website or blog.