Most of the newbies who starts a blog, prefer to use as their blogging platform. This actually makes sense, as is free, and you need less technical skills to get started. From a learner perspective, it's a zero investment, and return is high. With platform, we get major benefits like

Free, Unlimited bandwidth.

Though storage is not unlimited but we have plenty of options like creating different author profile and use them to store images and files. The only thing which they might not like with is the . domain name, which can be easily fixed by buying a custom domain name.

Usually a URL is something like domain..com, and a custom domain name is www.domain.com.

For the record, WordPress is much better blogging platform, I wrote about it in a previous topic.

You might want to stick to platform for couple of months due to hosting cost, a good idea is to get a custom domain name for your blog. This will help you in many ways.

Why you should buy a custom domain for your blogs

• Buying a domain name is cheap:

Buying a domain name is pretty cheap, you can easily get good domain name ending with .com, .net or .org in between N1700-N1800. You can buy .com domain name for cheap from www.domainKing.ng

• Social media sites:

being a free platform, is often targeted by spammers, and this is one reason they are less likely to be trusted by people on social media sites. When you use a custom name for your blog, this removes that first impression of a free blog. Do remember,  Social media users doesn’t hate but they don’t like it.

• Web promotion:

Talking about web promotion, which starts from social media sites to link building, most of top websites doesn't like giving a link back to domain. If you will notice WordPress Blogs blogroll, it will be hard to find a domain there.

• Seriousness towards blogging:

You have been working a lot on your blogs, but without a nice layout, template and domain name, people will not feel that you are very serious about blogging. One simple reason you are not ready to spend a little amount for the thing you love.

• Branding:

Using your custom domain name, you can use it to brand yourself easily. Use a nice logo, favico and banner to brand yourself. You can look for wordpress like themes to give a entire new look to your blogs.

• Google Apps:

With custom domain, you will also get facility to use custom domain based Email address, and you can have email address of your domain name like info@domain.com

• SEO advantage:

Later on when you plan to migrate your blog to WordPress, custom domain name will ensure that you will not miss out link juice, and your migration will be more search engine friendly.

How to start with custom domain
So, if you are convinced that you should have a custom name for your blog, here is what you need to do the next.

Find a domain name: find a perfect domain name for your blog. Use something which is short meaningful and memorable.

If you have any question or need help in adding a custom domain to blogger, feel free to drop your comment.

D #1700 z it for a year or month.

Rosemary216:
D #1700 z it for a year or month.

It is per year.
I also help in setting up and customizing a blog.
Check this thread for details
https://www.nairaland.com/2342955/need-well-designed--blog

Julius2214:

It is per year

ok

Rosemary216:
ok

your blog is not so SEO friendly, check www.wenogetjob.com I could help you with that kind of template with little cost