How to Choose a Blogging Platform for your Blog?

Choosing a blogging platform is one of the toughest decisions which a blogger had to ever decide. Which blogging platform are you using for your blog? Read on this blog post of mine on how to choose a blogging platform for your blog?

I usually feel bad about those serious bloggers who use to work so hard on a free blogging platform. As per me it is like a waste to work on a blogspot or wordpress.com sub-domain blogs.

Those who are a regular visitor of my blogs, they know that I always support self hosted WordPress blogs for blogging purposes, but those who are new to my blog, they can check other blogs of the blogging tips category of this blog. It can give them a fairly good idea about blogging.

How to Choose a Blogging Platform for your Blog?

How to Choose a Blogging Platform for your Blog?

Blogging Platform Options

When it comes to start a blog, you might have these two options:

Free Blogging Platform

Free things seem attractive to many people. The same is also true for bloggers as well. I have met a few bloggers who don’t ever want to invest a single penny on their blog, and they are blogging simply because they are getting it for free.

To be very frank, there is no harm in using free blogging platforms, as far as general thinking is concerned. Though when I will explain you the cons of using free blogging platforms, then I am quite sure you would start loving the self hosted blogging platforms and would not prefer using free blogging platforms.

You might say that I am discouraging users to use free blogging platforms, but it is not like that. I will also let you know about how effectively you can utilize the maximum benefits of it too.

Blogger which is the product of Google now, is one of the most tempting blogging platform used by many bloggers for free. They usually provide .blogspot extensions to your blog name. If you will create a blog with myblogname domain, then it will be known by myblogname.blogspot.com or myblogname.blogspot.in, etc.

Second blogging platform which is also popular is WordPress. As you might be aware that WordPress is one of the world’s number one blogging platforms, many people prefer using the free version of it. They provide it for wordpress.com extensions.

Another popular option is tumblr. It is also much popular, but I don’t like it much. Seriously speaking I never used tumblr so I won’t comment anything on it.

Why Blogger?

As I already mentioned it in many blog posts of mine that Blogger or BlogSpot is a very powerful blogging tool. You can get it for free and you can utilize all the features of Blogger for free. But when I will tell you the cons of using these free blogs you might be interested in using self hosted one only.

Why WordPress?

To know why I love WordPress you can read this blog post of mine on top 7 reasons why you should use WordPress. Let me tell you that WordPress is world’s number one blogging platform and liked by many experienced bloggers too.

Self Hosted Blogging Platform

The second option which any blogger can think about is the premium one and mostly liked by experienced bloggers. You might also read my blog on different types of blogs a blogger can have. This is an option in which blogger should have to purchase a domain name and web hosting for their blog. It will cost you, and this is the reason why many immature bloggers prefer not to opt it.

Though you can get such blogs through WordPress.org, Drupal, Movable Type, etc. but WordPress is the most popular and amazing options for it.

Cons of Using Free Blogs

To be very frank, other than these options are free; I really did not found any pros which can compel someone to use these free blogs. Here are a few reasons why you should not use these free blogs:

Having Blogspot or free wp blogs is like staying in a rented apartment, you decorate it with so much efforts, but still u know that you are residing in a rented house. You cannot actually claim that this is your own house.

Second thing, you won’t ever find any BlogSpot or free WordPress sites link in Google searches for any competitive keywords. No one actually takes such blogs seriously, be it a normal user, or search engines.

Third thing you will realize the fact that not many people will remember your domain name. After all who will remember something like myblog.blogspot.com?

So these were some of the cons of using free blogs.

How to Utilize Free Blogs?

Well, I did not said much about the pros of using free blogs, since I did not found much. Here is a blog post of mine in which I explained about how you can utilize such blogs too. Read on: How to Become a Power Blogger While Using Free Blogs!

Other than it you can also utilize free BlogSpot platform with the help of a custom domain for your blog. It requires very little investment, but then at least you can have your own domain name. To know more about you can read this blog post of mine: How to Move Blogspot Blog to Your Own Domain Name?

Similarly you can get a custom domain name for your WordPress.com blog as well, read this blog post of mine on how to get a customized domain name for wordpress.com blogs? Or you can also upgrade your WordPress.com blog to self hosted WordPress.

How to Get Self Hosted Blogs

As we discussed about all the pros and cons of free blogging platform, now let me tell you how to get self hosted blogs. Here is my blog post on how to make a superb website or blog in minutes which can guide you to develop a self hosted blogs in minutes.

How can I Upgrade?

Those who have a BlogSpot blog they need not to worry about it, as many people have this misconception that they cannot change their blog now. In fact you can easily upgrade to self hosted WordPress platform without even losing any post, rankings, links, etc.

Read on this blog post of mine on How to Transfer Your Blogger Blog to Self Hosted WordPress Blog?

If you still have any doubt about using free blogs, you should read this blog post of mine on 10 common blogging mistakes to avoid by bloggers. Hope all these blog posts are useful and informative for you. Please do share your opinion and feedbacks about them in the form of comments. You can also connect to me if you do have any doubt about all these things 🙂

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