Buy a domain name

Bored and frustrated of using free urls like yourname.blogspot.com etc. ?
You can buy your own domain name, ofcourse not for free, with some annual fee. The annual fee is not much !. It may range from $7-$15/year. Paying $10 for entire year, not a big deal, in return you get a unique personal domain name like yourname.com yourname.net etc !. You may search for free domain names and you may also get some results ! but mostly these sites will be fake, the reason is a person wont run his servers for free to provide domain names (he has to pay electricity bill, maintain his servers, etc). You may ask why there is something called free webhosting, the answer is that they may provide web hosting for free but inturn they earn by placing ads on those free sites. You promote your site and indirectly theirs too. Any ways this is out of scope of our discussion. You may come across url redirectors but these are not much efficient. You can read more about them in Start your own website. There are many other reasons you should buy a domain name, you can say its just like a key for treasure. The reasons are listed below :

- It gives proffessional look to your site.
- Visitors will trust your site.
- It helps in SEO.
- User will prefer to go to your site rather than any free site listed in search results.
- You get a personal email @yourdomain.com .
- More chances of getting selected for advertising programmes like adsense etc.

Here are some of the sites which provide Domain name services :

Godaddy.com
price- $9.99+0.10
1and1.com
price- $6.12
Yahoo
price- $9.95
No-ip.com
price- $15
Dnspark.net
price- $8.95
Jollyjodomains.com
price- $7.15
Namecheap.com
price- $9.29
Domainstudio.com
price- $7.15

If you want to use domain name with blogger you need to 1st register a domain name with any of above services. Login into blogger->Go to settings->Publishing->Switch to custom domain->Switch to advance settings-> then enter appropriate details. Read setup instructions and follow them.