Note : If you want to start a static site then read : Top Platforms to make static site with drag-and-drop user interface
Top Blogging Platforms :
- Wordpress
- Blogger
- Tumblr
- Movable Type
- Joomla
- Drupal
- Express Engine
- Posterous
- Life Type
- Blog.com
- Friendster
- Penzu
#1 Wordpress:
Wordpress is at top of all blogging platforms. It offers free as well as premium services to bloggers. Its free platform probably has the largest number of bloggers around the world. Attractive offers and facilities are provided to pro users on certain payment. Wordpress is a CMS- Content Management System Provider. Its free accounts are popular due to its strong SEO - Search Engine Optimisation and user friendliness.There are lots of themes and plugins available for free accounts. The plugins make designing and tweaking easier. Wordpress is mainly for programmers, SEO Experts, technical bloggers and web developers. Wordpress supports PHP. CSS, Javascript, HTML (obviously) and MySQL. So, if you have some knowledge of programming, then Wordpress may yield golden fruits for you in field of blogging with pro package. If you have no technical knowledge, even then wordpress has something for everyone.
Free account supports single blog, has sub-domain of wordpress.com and do not support domain redirect. Adverts from wordpress are shown to non-logged in visitors by which wordpress.com full-fills the cost of hosting. Wordpress is good for starting Team-Blogs.
#2 Blogger :
Blogger is a non-commercial and free blogging platform owned by search giant Google. Blogger is completely free, user friendly, fast, responsive and very easy to learn. It is completely dedicated to Blogging and is not a CMS- Content Management System and doesn’t support PHP and MySQL. Due to this reason it is ranked second otherwise it is best blogging platform. It is popular among Bloggers all around the world due to its ease, flexibility and versatility. It offers sub-domain on blogspot.com and hosting is also free. If you own a custom domain then you may redirect your blog to that domain for free. Blogger Blogs, their posts and articles get lots of SERP from Google due to blogger being a Google product.
Blogger has become a loved spot for bloggers who want to make money online without spending some bucks. Its blogs get adsense approval even on blogspot.com sub-domain while other services are not approved by adsense for account on sub domain. Blogger supports multiple blogs on same account but has limitation of 50 posts per blog per day. Blogger supports only 50 authors per blog for team blogs. Blogger is so easy that setting up an account takes only a few minutes and you may start blogging instantly. Blogger supports addition of custom pages also.
#3 Tumblr :
Tumblr is a micro blogging platform like Facebook and Twitter. Tumblr recently got acquired by Yahoo for $61 billion. Tumblr is mainly for photo blogging like Typepad and photos appear appealing and stunning than text blogs. So, it’s favourite blogging service for photo bloggers. Like blogger, it also offers domain forwarding and user has reach to source code of template. The templates are fast, responsive and very different from classic blogging service's templates. Tumble hosts about 10.8 crore blogs. Tumblr also offers mobile publishing.
Tumblr is good for beginners. Tumblr drives more traffic than Facebook and Twitter towards site. People often use tumblr for fun or photo blogging as well as professional blogging either to represent yourself directly or to promote content of blogs hosted on different services. Photographers love to blog on Tumblr and therefore Tumblr hosts some of the best pictures and graphics about every topic over internet like other sites say Flickr, Picasa Albums and iStockphotos etc.
#4 Movable Type :
Movable Type is more famous among Expert and Professional Bloggers. Like Blogger, it offers multiple blogs on same account and provide effective ways of applying changes to all blogs at once. Movable type is open source CMS- Content Management System provider and offers non-commercial as well as commercial accounts of individual as well as industrial type. It offers free blogging services but mainly Premium packages used by commercial and big companies for hosting multiple blogs on large scale.#5 Joomla :
Like Wordpress, Joomla is also open source CMS- Content Management System. It is also a blogging service providing creation and publishing of blogs. It supports PHP, scripts and MySQL. It is mainly used by expert bloggers and professional web developers. It is among best options for starting blog sites. Blogs are fast, responsive and professional by looks. It offers static as well as dynamic homepage along with custom pages also.#6 Drupal :
Drupal is older than Wordpress and is popular among Web Developers from the time since its launch in 2001. It is choice for Developers, publishers and Bloggers due to its professional and strong CMS- Content Management System features. It is also open source and uses PHP language for professional looking sites. Many bloggers are very much addicted to Drupal due to its impressive CMS and services. Blog Creation and publishing is easy and fast. New-bies may feel some difficulty in learning the user interface of Drupal.#7 Express Engine :
Express Engine like Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal is also a CMS- Content Management System. Express Engine offers free services but are limited. Its professional services offer high quality features and is used mainly by Express Bloggers and Professional Web Developers for commercial purpose. It is not for new-bies and not recommended for non-coders and non-technical users.#8 Posterous:
Posterous is owned by micro blogging leader company Twitter. It is almost same as Tumblr and mostly popular among bloggers for micro blogging. It is used mostly for promotion of content of blogs and sites hosted on different services. It offers mobile blogging which is a strong reason for its popularity among bloggers. Posterous is good and versatile and best option for starting blogging for non-commercial and individual use.#9 Life Type:
Life type like Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal is a open source CMS- Content Management System and is powered by PHP language and MySQL server. It offers team blogs along with multiple blogs on same account. It is mainly used by web developers to build group collaboration sites having a large group of people acting as blog writers, authors and web-developers having same or common interests..#10 Blog.com:
Blog.com is free service for blogging but offers paid services also to start blogging. Users may create professional looking fast sites having responsive design easily by using services from Blog.com. It is basically use for starting personal blogs in starter pack. Upgraded members may us it for commercial and money making purpose.#11 Friendster:
Friendster is a social site having a user base of 110 million people. It offers social blogging, gaming and social networking to its users. The blog posts are shared among its own community of users based on interests and followers. It is most popular in Asian countries.Usage is easy and menus are stunning and attractive. Money can’t be earned from Friendster’s blogging as Friendster delivers it’s own ads and so professional blogging can’t be done.#12 Penzu:
Penzu is more like an online personal diary used to show your thoughts and feelings to your readers. The design is minimal and simple. It is different from Wordpress and Blogger in the sense that users use it less for online marketing and money making purpose. Penzu is sleek, simple and a superb online blog creation tool.
Some other services used for free as well as professional blog creation include:
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