Blogging has turn out to become a big time business and has been generating good cash.
Today i would like to share with you some of the best blog platform on the net today.
The Best Blogging Platforms
- Blogger
- WordPress
- Tumblr
- Svbtle
- Medium
- Postach.io
- Ghost
- Roon
- SETT
- Jux
1. Blogger | Free
This is a Google product and with it, comes the perks of being associated with the internet lord, Google.
It is an (extremely) easy-to-use and free platform that requires only a Gmail/Google account to get started.
Blogger blogs can be customized with new backgrounds and layouts easily. Unsurprisingly, the platform is integrated into Google’s AdSense advertising program (which might make the average blogger enough money for a cup of coffee each month) and other Google services like Google+ (for comments) and Feedburner (for RSS distribution) are easily configured.
You can use your own domains as well. Interestingly enough, we have a Tutorial series for users requiring acquaintance on Blogger as well.
2. WordPress | Free
19 Percent of the entire World Wide Web cannot be wrong. WordPress has come a long way in delivering one of the most comprehensive blogging platforms on the web today and yet, its free, open-source and highly customizable.
WordPress comes in two flavors, both being free but differ in installation : WordPress.com and WordPress.org. We recommend you to read in more detail about the differences in our earlier article.
You can actually build things like ecommerce sites, news blogs, social networks, aggregating blogs, directories and lots of other stuff apart of simple blogging.
One of the platform’s core strengths is its community of creatives, who have produced thousands of customization’s and tweaks allowing WordPress users to add sophisticated and powerful plug-ins (features) to their blogs, or dress it up in a new layout or design.
3. Tumblr | Free
Founded by a teenager David Karp and Acquired by Yahoo, its an eclectic mix of the most viral elements on the web : Facebook+Twitter+Blogger.
Tumblr blogs support custom domains, mobile blogging and is extremely easy to set up and use. It is one of the main reasons for memes going viral on the internet today.
It strongly caters to the audience who are always on the go, and wish to speak something more than what is allowed on facebook or twitter, but with the same dexterity and ease of publication. That makes it a different kind of platform to the likes of WordPress, and users — particularly of the younger generation — tend to turn to Tumblr blogs to curate items that they like rather than produce their own content. The “reblogging” feature makes content go crazy on Tumblr.
4. Svbtle | Free
Its stripped-down take on layouts and post creation will be quite inspirational for anyone looking for a focused and responsive and clear-cut experience. Writing, in particular, feels tremendously inspiring despite the platform’s overly simplistic post editor, and page/post layouts do well with trimming off all unnecessary fluff and filler.
However, this soothing simplicity does come at a cost of disparity. With so few customization options available, creating a distinct look and feel for your blog is out of the question. And despite the platform’s custom domain support, your work — much like Medium — is still under the Svbtle banner instead of your own.
5. Medium | Free
You must be a zombie if you do not fall in love with this service at your very first sight. Founded by Twitter founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone, It has a ‘social layer’ — which includes a feature letting users edit and annotate other people’s work, while it obviously integrates well with Twitter.
Medium has two strange features : Amazingly good aesthetics and ridiculously rigid rules. You have sign up with your twitter profile and you can start blogging right away. You twitter profile is your address and no custom domain or any type of domain is allowed. You can only put your opinion out there for everybody.
The focus is solely upon clutter-free reading experience. Content is the king here with extremely great typography.Given twitter’s hyper active users, chances are bright that your articles go viral quickly.
6. Postach.io | Free
From the makers of Evernote, the popular note-taking app, its a kind of hybrid setup of Evernote and a sharing platform. It doesn’t fit the traditional definition of a blog in all its entirety.
The blogging service integrates deeply into Evernote, allowing you to write posts right from the service using a dedicated notebook and set keywords like ‘published’, ‘page’ or ‘avatar’. More than just writing content from Evernote, Postach.io hooks into comment engine Disqus, supports Google Analytics, allows for custom domains, social sharing and also Markdown (Surprised?).
7. Ghost | Free, if self-hosted or $5 per month
A Successful Kickstarter product, Ghost is one platform that many say, might shake up the foundations of WordPress. Its extremely sophisticated, beautiful and blogger-centric.
Ghost is a platform which hits at the point where WordPress took a turn. WordPress diversified, whereas Ghost remains faithful to – Blogging. It promises fully customizable platform, custom domains, plugins and everything which WordPress already offers apart from a Revolutionary Dashboard, Responsive design and beautiful typography.
8. Roon | Free , $12 for self-domain and google analytics
It looks more like a Apple-Centric platform with the promise of a great interface for Mac’s and iOS. Its available for everyone though.
Again, a responsive, typography Centric platform which puts a great focus upon articles over other distractions, which supports multi-blogs, exports, rich-text/markup and also Premium addons – to increase functionality of your blog.
9. SETT | Free
SETT is a new, community-focused blogging platform that promises engagement. Similar in style to Medium and Svbtle, it claims it can help writers get 98 percent more comments — on average — and a lot more attention, just based on its community of users.
The platform allows readers to follow blogs, find similar posts and bloggers, communicate with each other — there’s even a ‘room’ where readers can discuss topics from a blog. The site is clearly focused on engagement, promising to help cultivate an audience and community for its bloggers.
10. Jux | Free
Its gorgeous front page, as well as post layouts offer a wide range of spectacular looks for your written work. The only issue is that while it’s beautiful on the outside, it’s anything but on the inside.
If you’re looking for a little more eye-candy for your blog or official website, put Jux on your radar immediately.
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