This week I’m talking about TypePad… One of the for-most blogging platforms out there, and definitely one of the leaders. But,, I’m a little confused about a few things, and I was hopping some of the TypePad people out there can set me strait.

Here is my Beef

In general ‘Free‘ Blogging is going to incorporate a (dot)something into your domain name, for example visualcoma.typepad.com or visualcoma.blogspot.com or visualcoma.wordpress.com, there’s really know way around that. Even ‘Free‘ has a price, although it’s not money.

In my mind your domain name is ‘Real Estate‘ it has value and it can give value to your content. The more sources pointing to your Domain.com the more the search engines like you. Especially if you’re really cool and you have some real heavy hitters that like you.

About a week ago I decided to check out TypePad to see what all the fuss was about, but I didn’t get very far. I just couldn’t bring myself to put my credit card in and pay to have visualcoma.typepad.com. So I stopped there, but TypePad didn’t. Later that same day I got an email from them asking if they did something wrong.

me –>> “Well, Yeah you did something wrong. The first thing you wanted from me was my Credit Card info…”

here’s the email and what I was thinking…

Don’t get me wrong, I fully understand that most sites are going to charge you for what you see below. There is no doubt that these things have to cost money. I’m wondering this, “Does TypePad offer the ability to mask your domain name with a name you’ve personally registered with out paying for the Premium Package.”

The reason I ask is that I’ve seen more TypePad users take their blog serious than other platform users, while still leaving the ‘(dot)typepad’ in their name.

My Point is this…

If you are serious about your blog than why aren’t you focusing on establishing a domain name with ‘Real Estate‘ value. If you are a Musician, Author, Publicist, Marketing Developer, Designer, Charity or anything of personal value than you Need to be creating a Brand for yourself that doesn’t include someone else’s name.

The simple fact is this.

Blogging has quickly become the latest trend/necessity for online marketing and publishing. Don’t go jumping the gun and get the first piece of land you hear about or see. Browse the market, find out what other people are using and get more than five opinions. There are millions of Blogs out there, trust me 5 opinions is not a hard number to find. Remember, if your goal in Blogging is anything more than a journal to your family and friends than it’s worth your time to do your homework…

Here are a few Options

WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, Habari, b2evolution, Moveable Type