write for your own blog or for others?

I have my own blog and write there most of the times. I accept other tasks too by writing an article to be published in my blog then link it back. I want to try freelance writing but I have no time to make many articles right now with a specific requirement so I just stick with my own blog. I am just proud that after 4 months of continuous blogging my page rank is 1.

It's always better to have your best content on your own site, a site that you own and control. I'm not talking a free site or blog, I'm talking about your own self-hosted blog that you pay for. Then once you have your own blog you can write "mini-versions" or "unique versions" of your articles to post on all those other sites, and have your link in them pointing back to your site. This way you maintain total control and generate a ton of backlinks to your own web properties making them turn into authority sites! I don't care how great anyone thinks it's going writing on those other sites that you don't own or control, just remember, they can always change - go out of business - or shut your account down for any reason - or you might just decide you don't like writing on their site(s) anymore. And yeah you can say "oh I can just pick up my articles and publish them somewhere else"...but there's so much more to think about than that because not only have you lost your writing platform but now you've lost most (if not all of your followers), you've lost your social signals like comments, ratings, etc that you earned over the years on those sites and so on. And there you are back to the bottom of the barrel having to start rebuilding all over again. But with your own site built from the very start, you don't have to worry about that because you owned and controlled it from the beginning - and all the while all of those other sites were just playing the background supporting your own web real estate.

I do not have my own blog. I was planning to have a blog but then I thought that I did not have enough knowledge for marketing the blog. So I have not yet started one. However, I am not still clear what to do. I did write blog comments for someone at that time when I read the blogs I started feeling that I also could write equally good blogs or some times even better blogs. So at present I am looking for some blogger who can pay me some amount to make blogging on his/her site. Only reason for this is that I do not have enough knowledge about marketing my blogs and it takes quite a long time also. Thanks for starting this discussion friend. Have a nice time...!

i just tried blogging almost a month ago to practice my skills in writing and as i am just learning the basics, writing on my own blog is enough for me but I've venture posting some on one publishing site too to see how my works would rate. Why? Think i found a new joy by expressing in writing whatever ideas that comes to my mind.

It is not good to write a blog from other writers. It is not your genuine work. You should need to work for it, as a good writer.

I don't have much idea about writing for others and get paid per article, while I am doing the former. Can you please explain more on this?