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The Top 3 Blogging Platforms

Oct 26, 2009 Writing and Speaking

I can remember the day. About five years ago, I produced my first blog. I’ve sprung up a handful of them since then, but it’s been a long and enjoyable process nonetheless. My blogs have covered all kinds of things, such as the tongue cleaner and Truvia. I’ve also written about more popular issues like celebrities and fashion.

At first, I was a little lost for ideas as far as which blogging platform to go with. I must have tried fifteen different services when all was said and done. The most important thing to me was that I had something that wasn’t too difficult to work with.

I’ve been through my share of good ones and bad ones, and I’d like to tell you about three of the blogging platforms that I’ve found to be the best of the bunch. The best part is that these are all free.

1. Blogger. Google’s blogging service is a great one, and it couldn’t be easier to set up a blog through this. It’s free, it’s intuitive, and you’re sure to get indexed pretty quickly because of the company behind it all.

If you want something a bit more sophisticated in terms of giving your blog a custom look and feel, then I’d go with Wordpress. There are literally thousands of templates and themes, not to mention the great plugins that automate so many tasks that’d normally require some pretty heavy programming.

There are so many different ways to take advantage of Wordpress plugins, and I’d definitely suggest playing around with it if you have a decent knowledge of the Internet.

The last one I’ll mention is a more recent addition to the blogosphere, and it’s called Posterous. This is a great service that allows you to post to your own blog without ever having to set it up. As long as you email them your post, they’ll have it up automatically for you in less than a minute.

The same can be done for pictures and videos too, making it very, very convenient.

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