: What are the advantages or disadvantages of using blogging platforms? I want to create a blog and I want my own domain. It will be a blog mainly, but I don't exclude to add some sections

@Jamie184

Blogging is the way to get more backlinks and to enhance huge traffic towards the business. Blogging is the best platform to start SEO. If you participate on the blogs on the regular basis then there is a huge amount of advantages. If you are not perform blogging on a regular basis than it would be the bad impact for you and your business.

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@Eichhorn148

Advantages are very few, and they are only for hobby-blogger:


No technical workload (nothing to setup).
(Mostly) No troubles with site performance.
Low entry point (one can start blogging without any background knowledge).
Security (noone hacks blog platforms).
Social networking by design (blog platform users are the first and easy-to-reach readers)
SEO out of the box (free platform templates are mostly enough optimized to provide findability).




Disadvantages are different, but they appear only if one wants to blog like a pro (make money with):


No or limited extensions.
No or limited customization of design, functionality and SEO (no or limited access to the template source, no access to the core source).
Limited e-commerce and monetization (one isn't absolutely free in how one monetizes the blog).
Limited webspace.
No custom user journey scenarios.
Visible blog platform footprints (less trust).

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