let me add one more thing, some blogspot bloggers use blogger.com because they don't know how to setup a wordpress blog with a tld and with premium hosting. Make a blog on blogger is very easy, anyone can do.
Free Tool:
IMT Website Submitter(Indexer)
Yes. even .50$ is a problem when there is no way to pay it even when you have money. But it's better to start working on a free blogger blog still you find a way then waiting till you get all the things. Nice thing is these days you can get free hosting without ads and also you can get a domain but coming up with deal with another webmaster. Like doing some manual bookmarking in return for .com or couple of .info domains.