Comparing The Top Blogging Platforms

Nowadays there are hundreds of different ways to create a blog. The blogging platform that you should use depends on your skill level and the purpose of your blog. We have reviewed a number of the top blogging platforms and reviewed them based on their strengths and weaknesses. In order to help compare these blogging platforms, we have also considered what each of the most popular blogging platforms would be best utilized for.

The Wordpress blogging platform is widely considered to be one of the best ways to start a blog. WordPress is so highly regarded because it is completely free and has a robust CMS backend that allows amazing customization. Likewise, the WordPress community has produced an abundance of free themes and plugins that make it a breeze to make your new blog look great and function impressively. The WordPress blogging platform also works great for Multi-User blogs.

The Blogger blogging platform, owned and operated by Google, is also free. Blogger blogs are easy to start, have a number of great themes to choose from, and have a clean, simple content management system. The blogs tend to get indexed by Google very quickly, and are easy to integrate with AdSense since they are both Google products. Blogger is great for personal blogs, but can be a bit lacking in terms of making a corporate blog or a whole website using the CMS.

Tumblr is a red hot phenomenon happening in the blogging world. A Tumblr is sort of a mix between a blog and Twitter. It allows you to easily and attractively publish posts in blog format, but also has a very active community that interacts with each other and re-blogs interesting content. Tumblr is certainly one of the most innovative of all the blogging platforms on this list. It is worth taking a look for all bloggers, although we suspect that it lends itself to personal blogging.

Posterous is a blogging platform that aims to be as minimalistic as possible. You don't even need to sign up for posterous: simply e-mail post@posterous.com from any e-mail account and the platform will automatically create a blog for you. Once you learn their backend, you will be impressed by just how robust this minimalistic blogging platform actually is, and whatever Posterous does sacrifice in function it certainly makes up for with simplicity.

A number of high profile bloggers prefer SquareSpace as their blogging platform of choice. It is a commercial blogging platform that costs as low as $8. Where SquareSpace wins is for making large-scale blogs. It makes customization coding very simple. Moreover, the templates are some of the cleanest out of all the blogging platforms. For serious bloggers, SquareSpace is worth a look.

It's easy to say that the most popular blogging platforms are all pretty good, and probably more than sufficient for most would-be bloggers, but nobody likes to hear that. If we had to pick out the best of all t4he most popular blogging platforms, the choice, to us, is clear: WordPress. You just can't match the level of customization and function that is possible with the amazing plugins and themes available for free in the WordPress community. Better yet, if you are willing to shell out a small fee, you can have access to truly jaw-dropping themes and plugins built incredibly well. For free, you can have the best website in your niche. For a few hundred dollars, that same website will completely and utterly blow away the competition. Check it out - for free! For more blog info, visit teach me to blog.

By: Vincent Tittel

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