While everyone including ProBloggers preach that 'Content is King' and it is in order to reach, sustain and intrigue your readers, for Advertisers the simple 'Link' is your most valuable asset to them.
Recently I came across a thread in a forum with statements directly from advertisers. Here's what one had to say, "As an advertiser who has done business with over 300 blogs From Pr 1 to Pr 5<------$40 to $60 blogs. We got less then 2% visitors out of it. Mostly only within 1st month and 0 conversions. But we are still here and the only reason we are here is for Links. So if the goal is to make money while blogging you as a publisher should be doing everything you can do to make your links more valuable to advertisers and the 1st step would be to host your blog on your domain name."-Russell R--Advertiser SEO Consultant
What we see here is that Russell refers to the most important assest for him from bloggers is the links. And in order to get them to hire you for their link placement in such places as PPP4, Social Spark, and Blogvertise--Just to name a few-- is to have your own domain name. Even better yet get your own domain and have it hosted using one of the many webhosting services out there.
Currently this is where I am at with my short term goals as a blogger. When I first started blogging I didn't know what the hell I was doing. Though I still don't know a lot what I do know is that I still have so much more to learn. Having my own domain name hosted on a different server is my New Years Resolution! As I go through this process I will gladly keep you informed about how it is going for me. In the meantime if your reading this and have some issues or concerns and even better yet if you have some helpful advice I would love to hear from you.
