If you try to get a blog running and have about 1k visitors a month and growing, is it profitable to host it yourself at a unique domain?
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What is the websites niche? If you are talking about high value keywords you make more from the same amount of traffic than if you are talking about low value keywords. How much competition is there in the niche? If there are a ton of sites there is a lot of advertising inventory and the prices will be low.
How are you doing to monetize? Are you building a list and marketing to the list or are you relying on google ads? The big advantage of building a list is you get multiple shots to sell them something. Google ads can work for some people but the other issue is google can cut you off at any time.
How are you calculating profitable? If you are just counting the hard costs (hosting can be had for $5-10/mo) then absolutely you should be profitable. If you are counting your time, what's your time worth? If your time is worth $20/hr then you need to make $500-$800/mo to pay for your time.
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Don't forget to register your personal name domain too. Even if it's only as a way for people to search for your email address. Mine is just a QR code with my contacts... www.daviddurall.com
Google makes it mad easy to check and send email from your own domain.
Just do it.
Congrats on your 1k+ hits.
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I appreciate this answer. Unfortunately I can't go into detail at this time. I also like your take on personal time. I realize at this point that this question is way too forwardly thinking. You do have the best answer in any case.