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This is a guest post by Harsh Agrawal, a professional blogger from New Delhi, India, who writes about Social Media, Internet, Computer tips and tricks, torrents, wordpress, SEO and blogspot.

Blogging is somehow directly or indirectly related to money. People start blogging for fun and passion. Later on realize that it’s a good way to make money online. If not $1000 then at least with 1 hour of decent blogging you will be paying a part of your telephone bill or bill for few dates with your new girlfriend.

Talking about blogging first thing comes into mind is Blogspot, which helps you to create a free blog.

Blogspot is a very good platform to start with your first blog but like stages in life, after a while you need to move one step forward.

Simple Reasons Why You Can’t Make Big Money From Blogspot Blogs ?

* Direct advertising: Blogspot blogs are free and thus doesn’t attract private advertising.

* SEO : Despite of very good content, lack of on page SEO on blogspot doesn’t give very good traffic from search engine and thus you lose significant amount of money.

* Adsense : Earlier Adsense used to love Blogspot blogs but recently blogspot blogs are being rejected by Adsense, thus you lose a significant ways of making money from your blog.

* Social bookmarking website : Social bookmarking website like Digg, Buzz yahoo doesn’t like blogspot blogs. If you have custom domain with your blogspot blog. That is ok . Else your submitted story will never make the front page of social bookmarking websites.

What Could Be The Best Alternative To Blogspot Blogs ?

If you are on blogspot for a while and you know all the in’s and out’s of blogging, you should move to self hosted wordpress blog. A self hosted wordpress blog gives you all the freedom of selecting your theme, on page SEO , advertising and respect.

You can read my article on 8 reasons why self hosted wordpress blogs are better then blogspot blogs

How To Get Started With WordPress ?

I’m sure if you are a blogspot user, you will be thinking how you can start with wordpress. WordPress is very easy to use and it gives you more power. Before you spend $5/month for your hosting fees, it’s better to make a free account on wordpress.com and try wordpress dashboard for a week. Once you become familiar with wordpress dashboard, Shift to self hosted wordpress blog.

What About My Old Blogspot Posts ?

I know you have spend years, if not at least month writing those articles and you don’t want to leave them behind. Though you can import all your blogspot blog post to wordpress without losing traffic, using wordpress import function.

You can refer to my guide on How to migrate from blogspot to wordpress without losing traffic.

How you can monetize your new self hosted wordpress blog?

I simple point down the numerous ways by which you can make money from your wordpress blog. I will elaborate them in upcoming guest post on this blog.

* Adsense contextual ads

* Infolinks text link ads

* CPM based ads

* Direct advertising

* Link sales

* Affiliate marketing

Like this, the ways to make money online are enormous, but you need to be on the right platform to make money.

I have used blogspot for 4 months and then I moved to self hosted wordpress blog . I can feel the difference and based on my personal experience I have written this post.

If you have any question regarding wordpress feel free to catch me on Twitter @denharsh