Sometimes new blogger doesn’t want to pay for domain thus they are more likely to use blogspot or wordpress.com subdomain. For me, this is totally the biggest mistake since domain name is the most valuable aset.

Once you start blogging, you will have increase in traffics and backlinks. Thus will increase your pagerank and Alexa rank. You will see that you have commited the biggest mistake once you want to move from free blog hosting such as blogspot and wordpress.com to paid hosting. This is because you can not move your page rank and backlinks of the blogspot or wordpress.com subdomain.

Co.cc works like real domain, not just redirection

Instead of blogspot or wordpress.com subdomain, you should try to use co.cc free domain name. Most of free domain name out there just a useless redirection but co.cc is totally different. You can choose either to do redirection or to propagate the DNS to your registrar and make it as your add on domain.

Using co.cc with blogspot or wordpress.com

For your information, you can also use co.cc subdomain with your blogspot and wordpress.com account. You just need to propagate the DNS (domain name server) to the appropriate free blog hosting service that you are using.

By using co.cc, you don’t need to worry to move to paid hosting since all of the information such as pageranks and backlinks will not be lost. You just need to propagate the domain name to new server.

Only two domain names per account

This is the biggest drawback of co.cc. You can only have 2 co.cc subdomains per account. If you want to have more, you need to donate at least USD10 or more to them. Then you will get to choose another 100 domain.

Oh, you can also register for 50 accounts if you do not want to lose USD10. Of course I am not stupid enough to do so. It is better to donate than wasting my time.