Make Money with Affiliate Marketing – The Benefits of Owning Your Own Blog

In my previous post, I briefly went over the pros and cons to using free blogs to make money with affiliate marketing. This post is going to cover the benefits of owning your own blog, rather than using free blogs.

The better approach to using blogs to make money online is to actually own the blog. This means you won’t be setting up a free blog on Blogger.com or Wordpress.com. Instead, you’ll have to register your own domain and name and web hosting. This may sound complicated, but it’s not.

The benefits of having your very own domain are that you can brand yourself or your business. There are numerous additional benefits to just this one main benefit, but I won’t get into that.

Another benefit is that you completely own your blog and domain name. You have full control over every aspect of it. You control the design, content and monetization efforts. Your blog can’t be shut down because you may have violated certain terms. You won’t have to worry about that here.

If you decide to put up ads and advertise various affiliate programs, you’re free to do so. You can build your own opt-in list that you can market to later. The possibilities are truly endless when you own your blog. No one can take it from you.

Say you started out using a free blog and now want to switch to your own blog. Rather than losing all of your posts, you can simply export your posts, comments, etc. from your free blog and import everything into your new blog.

The total cost associated with owning your own blog will only be the domain registration and web hosting. At the most, it will only cost you about $100 a year. That’s it. That’s a very small price to pay when you think about the potential making money with affiliate marketing really has.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlinehow.com