Blogging has turned out to be an amazing approach to express your ideas, thoughts, and create your own presence over the Internet for your company and providing your existing as well as potential customers with the required content.
If you are planning to come up with your own blog, but do not want to get into the hassle of developing, hosting and deploying it by your own, you can opt for the free blogging platforms that are considered the best and can be accessed for free. These platforms offer their users with a large number of features and normally come with both free as well as premium plans.
The 10 best blogging platforms of year 2012 are as under;
1. WordPress
WordPress happens to be one of the most feature-rich platforms for blogging available until now. It happens to be one of the most popular and well accepted open sourced web applications with numerous useful features even in its free version such as gorgeous themes, SEO, anti-spam filters, traffic stats and a lot more. Many other popular blogs like Flickr, people Magazine’s Style Watch, CNN’s Political Ticker also use the WordPress platform for their blogging needs.
2. Blogger
Blogger is a very popular blogging platform owned by Google and offers quite a lot of amazing features to its users. It offers ease of use and mostly beginners prefer opting for Blogger interface. Furthermore, it offers some features for free which is only available for premium users on other blogging platforms. It can be considered the best free blogging platform and it allows you to monetize your traffic.
3. Blog.com
It is another vital WordPress-powered platform when it comes to blogging. Just as other services, it holds its own share of advantages and disadvantages. In the free version, it offers its users with amazing themes, various plugins, and many more. The service offers 2GB of storage capacity initially but it can be enhances to with later packages. But, WordPress basic storage capacity is 3GB. However, the bad part is that the service exhibits more adverts than WordPress.
4. Blogdive
This is also another WordPress powered free blogging platform. The great thing about this service is that there are different sub-domains to choose from to personalize your blog.
5. Jux
Jux happens to be an innovative and unique blogging service which enables users to share their content over the Internet.
Speaking conventionally, Jux is not a blogging platform as mentioned before, but it holds numerous similar features and functionalities. Rather it enables you to come up with your own microblogging portal which allows you to share your content over the Web.
6. Tumblr
Tumblr is a featured-pack and popular microblogging portal. It offers numerous interesting and outstanding features like audio based blogging, blogging themes, and free customized domains with a lot more. You can even get your Tumblr account linked with your Twitter or Facebook so that you can easily update your social media feeds via a single location.
It is yet another amazing blog-publishing platform which is more or less similar to the Tumblr. The platform offers incredible privacy as well as viewing features so that the users can easily control on who can see what on your Posterous Spaces portal. This was recently acquired by Twitter and it may impact on how the site functions in the near future.
8. Blog.co.uk
They have an interesting and active blog community and it’s totally free to use. The only problem is that as a free user, you’ll have so many ads on your blog. You’ll only be making money for them with your traffic.
9. Blogetery
This service is powered by WordPress and offers a great set of features. You will be able to make use of more than 40 plugins, custom domain mapping and approximately 140 themes.
10. Weebly
When it comes to Weebly, it is a lot more than only blogging, it is a totally featured website builder. It offers numerous features such as maps, audio/video, slideshows, image galleries, drag and drop interface with many others.
11. FreeBlogit
It’s also a free WordPress powered blogging platform with incredible free themes to choose from.
12. LiveJournal
Livejournal, popularly known as LJ, is another user friendly free blogging platform offering the service of free blogging and also social networking. You can create your own networks, interact with others and participate in Polls along blogging.
Conclusion
With WordPress and Blogger being the most popular and most used, choosing the better between the two popular platforms can be confusing. There are a large number of other blogging platforms available, and opting for a particular one is more of a matter of personal needs and taste.
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nice compilation..
Blogger would be my choice if not hosting on paid hosting
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WordPress is arguably the most popular CMS (content management system) online. While the title of ‘most popular blogging platform’ would probably be bagged by Blogger.com, it is WordPress that powers millions of sites across the globe. As a free, open source CMS with a very strong community of independent developers, it is easy to see why WordPress commands such popularity.
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Nice sum up of different blogging platform. I have not used anyone apart from WordPress. I wish I could have time to experiment with others. Beside there are many platform listed here that I have not heard about before. Nice post though
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I only hope someday Google doesn’t acquire some of these blogging platforms in its bid to monopolize the internet. We’ve seen then acquire and retire some important products/services and retired them just to remain the lord of everything.
WordPress will always remain my preferred choice to blogging. Thanks for the post……
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Google already has Blogger and I don’t think they would want to acquire any other one again. If they do, it might not be good news. Google might start to regulate content.
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You can also manually install blogs on Drupal and Joomla. I think they are also quite good especially for power users who appreciate flexibility.
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I recommend wordpress with paid web hosting. Blogger is best for newbie blogger, it is easy to use and understand but upgrading wp is a wise step
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Its a nice post, though wordpress would always be at the top of my blogging list for now. Here is an article that could help you make a choice between Blogger and WordPress. http://oscarmini.com/2012/07/wordpress-or-blogger-which-is-better.html
i particularly have tested wordpress and blogger. somehow i think blogger is more fluid for me than wordpress. i cant say why but does anyone also think that is the case for them?
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The best blogging platform for you to choose to use will be the one that you are most comfortable using and the one that best suits the purpose of your blog. There are other blogging systems available through social media sites that not a lot of people are making the best advantage of often because they aren’t aware that they can be used for any number of purposes, if the site suits the topic of your blog. The most common blogging platforms people chose to use today though are either Blogspot or WordPress.
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Nice list Don !
Blogger would be my choice …..
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Sure, Blogger rocks, it’s free and gives you the most most freedom of all the other free alternatives. I used if for good two years before going for self-hosted WordPress.
Hey There Nadine Myrick,
Thanks for that, In this article I am going to talk a little about the WordPress Blog Platform, its main features, advantages and benefits. WordPress has proven to be one blog platform that came to stay and compete with big blog services like Blogger from Google. Unlike most blog services provided by big online blog providers, WordPress is open source and offers flexibility, personalization and security since it can be hosted on your own web host and you don’t have to worry about waking up the morning logon your blog and see some message like “Your Account Has Been Suspended / Deleted” without any notice and all the content gone, certainly one of the worst things that could happen to an internet marketer. WordPress allows you to customize your blog according to your niche, product or service, using tens of applications, themes and plug-ins available with what you can create whatever you imagine.
All the Best
I’ve always been a word press guy, i love the fact that it’s user friendly and provides more flexible options compared to blogger. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for your article.
I was only know Blogspot and WordPress. Yes, that’s all.
But now I understand that there is soo many other blogging platform to choose from.
I think I love blogetery, tumblr and weebly.
I’ll give them a try.
This is an excellent list. Another social blog platform to consider is Social HubSite: http://socialhubsite.com
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SocialHubSite doesn’t look like it’s a free blogging platform. Is there something I’m missing on their pricing page?
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Some of the so-called free blogging platforms often decide to change to a paid service as time goes on. By the way, SocialHubSite doesn’t seem to be on the list.
Fantastic review of the different free blog sites, definitely a big help – thanks!
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Very usefull list. In my opinion soup.io is good too.
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I prefer blogger.
There are a lot of good blog platforms here, although I feel that WordPress is the best. Google loves WordPress blogs, there great for SEO too.
Great post
Thanks
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I very Much prefer WordPress, it’s so simple, yet so Complicated for Newbies.
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thanx for sharing this good article it helped me a lot
nice………..providing all blogging plateform this is good for all visitor
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my vote goes to Blogger. best free blogging platform.
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The best among these is definitely WordPress. For those who don’t know coding very much blogger is a good option.
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Live Journal is nofollow blog right ?
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There’s a sharing element floating on the left hand side of your page that’s stopping me reading your article. Any spelling mistakes can be attributed to me not being able to see the start of the lines…
Sorry, Rob, I just fixed it. Thanks for letting me know.
a very good review but do a little detailed review mate look here’s it’s details blogger.com review
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Thanks for sharing
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this is a nice and informative post and it is a great list of blogging platforms thanks
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Thank you for you article.It’s very useful to me!
Its a nice post, though wordpress would always be at the top of my blogging list for now
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Many of these are very technical website content management systems, which although very feature rich, require a lot of fiddling around… and have a steep learning curve… If you’re looking for an answer to “planning to come up with your own blog, but do not want to get into the hassle of developing, hosting and deploying it by your own” I would include http://culinote.com in the list. It’s a social food-publishing platform that lets you easily share recipes, articles, images, and links, and it’s probably the easiest tool out there.
I love using wordpress as it provides great connectivity towards social media. Jux on the other hand is the simplest and most visually pleasing site. Thanks from Drum Cafe for the great blogging services.
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All the contents you mentioned in post is too good and can be very useful. I will keep it in mind, thanks for sharing the information. Keep updating, looking forward for more posts. Thanks.
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Me thinks blogger is the best blogging platform because its easy to use, has so many SEO options and the Google team have developed an avenue to insert Meta Tags for each page/post
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Thanks for sharing. I prefer using WordPress and Blogger and based on my experience I have drawn a comparison: Will help me a lot with my WordPress vs Blogger : What are your betting on?. Though this blog has certainly helped motivated me to try other options too. Thanks for the nice post !!!
nice compare articles. thanks for share. long ago., i made a blog on blogger.
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Thanks much for this information. It was very helpful for my blog and works great
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