As most of you have probably noticed, the serious bloggers who have established names in the blogging industry all have their own domains.
Most of the time, their domains are those which make them stand out in the crowd.
Think of it as a bloggers' own Google - Google isn't known only as a search engine, but it is known as Google.
It even got so established, that there is a verb which means Google - to find something in the Internet.
As a blogger, should you buy your own domain? Most bloggers would definitely say yes; but why exactly? Here are some reasons why you should consider buying your own domain instead of getting a subdomain.

1. Easy to remember - admit it; writing.
   com is easier to remember than writing.
   subdomain.
   com.
   People also tend to spread your website's name easier when you have your own domain - you don't have anything in between.
   Therefore, you get to have a mark in people's minds.
   
2. Image - how do you want to be viewed? If you want to become a tech guru, then a domain techguru.
   com will show off your image rather than something like techguru.
   subdomain.
   net.
   It just breaks your image - and makes you look as if you are not serious about blogging.
   
3. Establishing a name in the industry - one good thing about getting your own domain is that it becomes you; you are your domain and your domain is you.
   You embody your domain - you do not get known in the blogging industry as your first name; you become known as the name of your website.
   
4. SEO purposes - Who doesn't want to have his or her website in the first page of search engines? Make sure to target a keyword from which you want to be known, and also from which you want to be searched from.
   Coming from there, you'd easily grab visitors, and hopefully climb the searches in the search engines - which mean more traffic for you.
   

A more professional and informative look - let's face it; people want information.
Unless you are a celebrity, people would not care about reading your daily lives in your blogs.
Getting your own domain shows that you are professional and you offer information for your readers, as opposed to blogging about your daily life.
Your own domain shows that you are serious in whatever you are blogging about - and that you are credible about the stuff that you blog.
Blogging is the new media today - and we have to accept that it is here to stay.
Moreover, we shouldn't underestimate its power.
Blogging is something that we all have to take in constructively, and carefully.