Blogger or Blogspot, WordPress, Livejournal, Myspace, Today.com etc are few among lots of blogging platform where you can Blog. But hold on your temptation a little before you start blogging. Though there are lots of place to start free or paid Blogging each having their own benefit yet it is very tough to decide a correct blogging platform that works for you. The right blogging platform that works for you depends upon your motivation behind start blogging.
This article will help you in detail about how to select the correct blogging platform for you along with the reasons behind it.
The first thing you have to do is to decide yourself, “What is the purpose of your blog? or What motivates you to start Blogging? “
This decision will help you to make a clear mind set about whether you are looking for free blog or like to earn extra cash from your blogging skill or you have decided to be a professional blogger. Possibilities are there that you would like to share your views with the rest of like minded people of the world or trying to vent and blow off some fuss. You may be interested about spreading your business online or write a review about a product you are using or about the movie you just watched. So, there are endless possibilities about why you are going to start blogging. So, these are some basic questions that you should answer yourself before starting blogging.
Blog websites are basically divided into 3 main types. Free Blog, Paid Blog, Get Paid for Blogging.
Here are some websites where you can start blogging based on what fits you. This list is not complete as available options are endless with ever increasing blogging services. This list barely scratches the surface of available options as they are a few of most popular blogging services.
Blogger or Blogspot – This is one of the free Blogging platform by Google. It is either known as Blogger or Blogspot. Blogger.com is recommended blog for all types of bloggers. The best thing for using this service is that is FREE and needs no web designing knowledge. It is easy to setup and takes 5 minute and domains are available with “.blogspot.com” as extension. It has also has template library available for selection. There are lots of gadgets available to use here. The best thing associated with Blogger.com is that you can earn money by using this blogging service as it can be integrated with Google Adsense. You can also add your own Chitika, Kontera ads, Yahoo Publisher Networking Ads, Infolink ads to start your earning from your own blog. So, its free, its easy, no need of any technical knowledge and you can earn from it. So, the all you need is having a Gmail account and start blogging with Blogger.com
MySpace.com – Blogging on MySpace.com is really a great experience as it is free and the best thing about it is that the blogging is integrated seamlessly with your profile there. This platform serves a great way to share your blogs with your friends, family and co-worker. They can subscribe to your blog to get instant notification about your blog whenever you update your blog. A little HTML knowledge will help you to do better on this platform.
Livejournal – This is another most popular blogging service having both free and paid categories. It is more or less similar to MySpace. You can also get some readymade templates by various LJ communities to use for free.
WordPress.com -.Those who demands little more customizable blogging feature should go for WordPress. There are lots of pluggins, lots of templates to pick for your blog. Even you can make modifications in those available templates. Despite of its advance customization option,Wordpress is still free to use and offers great level of support for any problem with your blogs. Its popularity among all is due to its optimized characteristic. As per my view, I have noticed that the wordpress blog itself has been so much optimization at its source code that even a new blog gets noticed by Google within 24 hrs. of creating a new blog with even a single post on it without any promotion or submission in Google or other directories, which otherwise takes months to get in notice of Google. Those who are comfortable with HTML, PHP language and interested in purchasing personal domain and host blog in own server can enjoy even more. You can also add your own Adsense code, Chitika, Kontera ads, Yahoo Publisher Networking Ads, Infolink ads to start your earning from your own blog. WordPress.org offers the same great blogging system and software absolutely free for this which often gets released with its newer upgraded version for making blogging a better experience for them.
There are lots more in the free blogging list some of which also provides upgrade option facilities to get even more customized features of blogging. Some are mentioned here. TypePad.com, Blog.com, Blogster.com etc.
Get Paid for Blogging
There is another interesting aspect about blogging is that you can earn from blogging in various ways. Apart from Google Adsense, Chitika, Kontera ads, Yahoo Publisher Networking Ads, Infolinks etc advertising solutions you can also earn directly by posting your blogs on some blog websites.
Yes there are many websites which helps you to avoid the long waiting till Google Adsense or other advertisement services starts generating earning for you, instead you can just start posting on these blog websites based on their terms and start making money for you. I have presented below the list of some Get paid for Blogging websites.
Today.com – This is a Get paid for blogging website, where you can earn money based on the number of words used, number of unique page views, referral blog earning. So, this may be an easy way to make money if you have ability of developing quality in your blogs.
Getpaidfrom.us – This blogging service use to pay their bloggers 50% share of their Adsense earning from your blogpost every month irrespective of whatever the payout amount is. This helps you to get rid of long 6 month waiting of New Adsense account creation and waiting till the amount collected in your account reaches $100 for payout.
Orble.com – This is another get paid for blogging service which pays to 50% from their Adsense commission generated from your blog along with 10% for referring others to orble.com . So, this way you will get a chance of earning a bit more.
So, the above mentioned blogging websites are only a popular small list from what you will get online when you have decided what you are blogging for. So, just start blogging.
