Self-Hosted Blog Vs. Free Blog: Where Do You Earn More Money?

[Mika]

Between self-hosted blogging sites and free blogging sites, where do you earn more money?

Well, you can of course make more money on your own self-hosted site because you are in full control of the revenue stream. However, the main problem is generating income. You need substantial traffic to earn from ads. You also need money to maintain the site.

You don’t have to spend any money to start on free blogging platforms and free blogging sites. While earning from free blogging platforms like wordpress and blogspot is difficult as you need a lot of traffic, it is somewhat easier to earn by publishing on free sites like hubpages, medium, etc. You can start earning immediately as you can easily get views because these platforms are huge communities. Some blogging platforms can let you earn even from tips. If you have loyal readers, you can easily earn tips. On some platforms, you can earn from upvotes and likes. If you are a good writer and if you reciprocate well, you can also earn from this method.

 

[Jasmine]

I don't think we need to debate on where you can make more money, either on a self hosted blog or free hosted blog. It is obvious that you can make more money on a paid blog. That';s because there are limited monetization options for free blogs. Even if you are able to use monetization methods on your free blogs, you might not be able to make money because you need traffic and it is really difficult to build traffic on free blogs. If you wish to make money from your blog, you should be willing to spend some money on domain and hosting. if you have writing, SEO and digital marketing skills, you can easily recover your investment in a few months. The key to earning is traffic and the traffic can be easily built if you are well versed with seo and digital marketing. A lot of bloggers fail in these two areas.