Do you already have a self-hosted blog? There are lots of people out there who use WordPress or Tumblr for blogging. You can get started easily and although the customization of the blogs is pretty restricted compared to using web hosting to install your own Content Management System (CMS), many people still use these services to voice their opinions to the world! Using a custom domain name with these services is fairly easy to set up.
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There are many advantages to using a custom domain name with your self-hosted blog. Firstly, you can give your blog an identity! Branding is incredibly important to any website and the domain name you use is the basis of your brand. So why not let people access your blog by typing in a domain of your choice, rather than a subdomain of your choice with ‘provider.com’ stuck on the end.
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You can also create email addresses with the domain name to brand your communication with your readers. It also gives the blog a much more developed and professional feel, when users can send email to the domain name of the blog, rather than to a Google Mail or Hotmail address.
There can also be a great Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) benefit to having your own domain name. A domain name with no suffix will always perform better than that with the suffix. For example, if you searched for “bike rides”, you are always going to find that “bikerides.com” would be ranked higher than “bikerides.wordpress.com” provided the sites were of similar quality. As I hope you know, SEO gives you the chance to appear higher in the search rankings, thus increasing your readership!
There are a number of ways to set up your domain name to forward to your blog. It all depends on what your host offers. If you ever need any help with your DNS records or Web Forwarding options when you’re trying to set up your domain name, don’t forget our industry leading support team are here to help!
