Recently, there were a couple of interesting posts on the Warrior Forum that talked about the potential problem of using free blogging sites. One post was about how someone put a lot of work into blogger blogs, and then found out that all of their blogs were deleted. The other post was about using wordpress.com to post reviews and getting all of their blogs deleted. The links to both of these threads is at the bottom of this article.

The point to remember is that these free sites have policies that you have to follow if you want to keep your account. In the case of wordpress.com, it appears that they aren’t going to tolerate people using this free as a platform to sell stuff. You can use the site to get traffic to your money pages, but you have to be very careful.

To protect yourself, before you spend a lot of time creating content and posting to any free site, carefully read all of their terms of service to see what they allow and what they won’t allow. And do a search on related forums to see if you can find tips on using these sites.

If you host your blogs on your own hosting account, you won’t have this problem. You can promote to your heart’s content and not have to worry about your sites being shut down. Of course you will have to spend a couple of bucks on hosting, but you won’t be taking a chance that the time you put into your sites will be wasted.

These sites are worth using, and they can get you good backlinks to your money site. Just make sure that you follow their rules so you can get the full benefit of what they offer.

Important Point:
Wordpress.com is a site where you can create a blog for free, and they have rules you have to follow. A wordpress blog is the blog software that you host on your own domain and hosting account. You do have to abide by the terms of service of your hosting provider, but you have a lot more flexiblility if you host a blog on your own site.

Take a few minutes to read through the following threads so you can avoid having your free sites from being shut down.

Blogspot Blogs Removed Thread

WordPress.com Killed All My Blogs Thread