Hosting your valuable content on some other site is I don’t guess the right thing. You are dedicating your valuable time on researching and writing articles, and you place them to other a network where the generated revenue gets shared among the host and you. What if you had a dedicated site for your articles? The whole revenue generated will be in your pocket, and if you are creating good articles, then the popularity will also be gained by your blog only. You only have to work a bit hard in the beginning to gain traffic.
People are generally inclined faster to “Free’ things rather then those which cost something. But think about the logic, free things are available to everyone, so you are making your start a common thing. Thousands of people join Blogger daily and in those thousand, 90% leave it on the very first day. So the impression is that, lots of people joining in because it’s free, and lots of people drop too because they just did it for fun.
These free blogging platforms are good when you want to test your skills. New blogger should try these platforms when they are planning out for blogging. If you are getting enough response to your articles, then you may take blogging to next step and start with your personal domain.
Independent Blog means that you have your own domain name and space to put your presence on web whereas Dependent Blog means that you are going to use a space which is hosted by somebody else and with his domain name. In case of dependent blogs, the readymade sites are generally on higher ranks because they are already getting content from many guys all over so they just have to dedicate the time in doing SEO for their site. In case of independent blogs, the SEO, content building and other activities are all to be controlled by you. So it’s kind of tough thing, but going in right direction is worth the wait.

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