Choosing a Free Blogging Site

Picking The Best Free Blogging Site

Choosing a free blogging site can feel overwhelming because there are so many options. There are several large free blog-hosting sites that dominate the blogosphere, but there are also smaller sites.

Whether you decide to join up with an established site like blogger or whether you choose to sign on with a relatively new venture depends on what your priorities are. Reliability is perhaps the best reason to opt for a large and well known free blogging site. When you choose to have an established brand host your blog, you can feel secure that your blog will not crash often and will not disappear in the middle of the night. A company that has been around for a while is likely to have the resources to make sure that its clients aren't unpleasantly surprised by any technical glitches.

 However, many bloggers decide that this isn't enough of a selling point. The bloggers who choose to go with smaller, newer blog hosting sites do so for a variety of reasons, but perhaps the number one advantage is a fairly abstract one. Bloggers tend to relish the fact that the internet is a place where the underdog has a strong chance of success, and by choosing to have a small company as a blog host, a blogger is casting his or her vote for David against Goliath.

Check around a bit and see what you may like most. You may even want to host with a couple different blogging sites. The choice is your.

Here are some sites to help you get started:

Google's Blogger 

Great for beginners and those not comfortable with the code side of blogging.

Wordpress

This is a blogging platform that is great for beginners and the more experienced blogger. It takes a little more time to learn, but give an individual a lot more control over their blogs. Wordpress is used by many bloggers and people use it to build their websites. There are a variety of plug-ins that enhance the versatility of this blogging platform.

Posterous

 This is an ideal place for beginning and microbloggers to get their feet wet and post rapidly. It simplifies the process of designing and maintaining a blog, but as a result, eliminates some of the deeper controls that can be found in Blogger and Wordpress.com



Check these out and some others. Use what your comfortable with and utilize the tools available on the internet, such as video tutorials, and articles written on the topic of blogging.

Happy Blogging!

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