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Are free blog sites good for when you want to make money blogging? The best answer to that question in most cases is no, but there are times when free blogging can be useful. Let’s find out how.

Free Blog Sites

Free blogging is a situation where your blog is located on another company’s or another person’s blog server. You don’t own your blog in the sense that the blog hosting company can pull the plug on your blog with no warning. While I’ve not had it happen, I know several people to whom it has; one person lost almost 100 sites when Google pulled the plug on blogger. Ouch!

Free blog sites are great for many reasons one of which is to learn how to blog, but if you are serious about profitable blogging, look elsewhere.

Now I will admit that I have a few free blogs at wordpress.com and Google’s blogger platform. And although I’ve never made money off blogger, I have from wordpress.com. The bad news is that your monetization is limited on the free blog site, and you most likely will not be making near the money you would if it was your own site. So live and learn!

MySpace Blogs

Another of the popular free blogging sites is for MySpace blogs myspace.com that is. If you have a MySpace page, you can certainly use it for a free personal blog. The main use of a MySpace blog is to send traffic to your blog that makes money.

And naturally, the same applies to Facebook. The approach on Facebook is a little different it’s great for personal stuff. But when it comes to making money you must work from permission based marketing concept rather than a direct approach.

What Makes a Free Blogging Sites Useful?

Free blogging sites are useful for making money blogging in two ways. One is to provide a backlink to your profitable blog, and the second is to use that link to drive traffic to your money making blog.

Now here’s the problem with free blogging links back to your main blog site aren’t useful unless your free blog content is related to your money making blog. Without properly targeted traffic visitors are not likely going to visit your make money blogging site.

If you have not done any blogging before, free blog sites are a great way of getting your feet wet, so to speak. And an excellent way of deciding if blogging is something you would like to do. Then if you decide to seriously pursue making money blogging, you’ll have a little experience under your belt.

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