Why You Must Set Up A Custom Doamin On Your Blogspot Blog

  

Most of the newbies who start a blog prefer to use BlogSpot as their blogging platform. It makes sense, as BlogSpot is free, and you need less technical skills to get started. The investment is zero and returns high.
Also, you get free, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage in BlogSpot. Though storage is not unlimited, we have plenty of options like creating a different author profile and use them to store images and files.

• Read: How to start a free blog on BlogSpot platform

The only thing which you might not like with BlogSpot is .blogspot domain name, which can easily be fixed by buying a custom domain name.
Usually, a BlogSpot URL is something like domain.blogspot.com, and a custom domain name is www.domain.com. A custom domain has many added advantages over .blogspot domain name which you can read below.

Reasons why you must set nup custom domain on your blog

setting up a custom domain on your blog especially on blogspot is a compulsory task. these are the major reasons why you must set up a custom domain on your blog:

Buying a Domain Name is cheap

Buying a domain name is pretty cheap, you can easily get good domain name ending with .com or .org in between $10-$13. You can buy .com domain name for cheap from Godaddy.

Social Media Sites

Blogger.com being a free platform, is often targeted by spammers. This is one reason they are less likely to be trusted by people on social media sites. When you use a custom name for your BlogSpot blog, it removes the impression of a free blog. Do remember, Social media users doesn’t hate BlogSpot but they don’t even love it.
Do remember, Social media users doesn’t hate BlogSpot but they don’t even love it.

Web Promotion

Talking about web promotion, which starts from social media sites to link building, most of the top websites doesn’t like giving a link back to BlogSpot domain. If you notice WordPress Blogs blogroll, it will be hard to find a BlogSpot domain there.

Seriousness towards Blogging

You have been working a lot on your BlogSpot blogs, but without a nice layout, template and domain name, people will not feel that you are serious about blogging. One simple reason being you are not ready to spend few dollars for the thing which you love.

Branding

The perception that you create in your readers’ mind is imperative for your blog. Using a customized domain name helps you to establish your blog as a brand. You can also use a nice logo, favicon, and banner to brand yourself. Look for WordPress like BlogSpot themes to give an entirely new look to your BlogSpot blogs.

Google Apps

With a custom domain comes the facility to use custom domain based email address. You can have an email address of your domain name like admin[at]shoutmeloud.com.

SEO advantage

If you plan to migrate your blog to WordPress, a custom domain name will ensure that you will not miss out link juice, and your migration will be more search engine friendly. I have talked about this in detail here: How BlogSpot users can prepare for WordPress migration.

how to start setting up your custom domain on blogger?

the crux of the matter is how to successfully set up a custom domain without occurrence of any error because it is in dire straits for a newbie to easily set up a custom doamin, but since you are with kingzitech don`t panic becuase you are not alone.
1) Find a domain name: Find a perfect domain name for your blog. Don’t use your personal name, rather use something that pertains to the services you are rendering or your niche.
Search for a domain name using any of these five domain name suggestion tools.  or you can quickly go to godaddy or 1and1 to purchase for as low as 99cent

1. 2) fF you purchased from GODADDY.COM then follow this detailed guide on how to set up a custom domain using godaddy.

1. 3) if you purchase from 1AND1.COM then follow this detials on How to set up a custom damian on blogger using 1and1

Note: WordPress is a much better blogging platform than BlogSpot. According to January 2016 report, 25% of the websites in the world is powered by WordPress. Anyways, this is a completely different topic of discussion, and if you want to read about it, here are two resources:

I would suggest you stick to BlogSpot for a couple of months and then move to self-hosted WordPress.
So..