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. 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.
2. 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.
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.
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