There must be hundreds, if not thousands, of different weblog tools to use to get started. From WordPress and Blogger to a blog software provided by your host and a whole myriad of free blogging tools and systems that you might download. What is best for you? Well that’s the problem, what’s best for you may not be what’s best for the next person, so there is not one straightforward answer.
What’s Your Blogging Purpose?
If you are blogging to earn money, which seems to be the incentive of plenty of new bloggers, then loads of of the free tools are out as their terms and conditions prohibit advertising and sponsored posting. But, if you are blogging to inspire yourself and income is not in question, then the free websites have other, hidden, great advantages.
Blogging To Fitness, And Others
A lot of people start blogging to keep themselves following a training plan, to lose weight or to get to a race correctly trained. This is a remarkable use of blogs and will work best if you van share your experiences with others in the same situation. For these people, going to a free community system for instance Real Buzz is best. But you cannot advertise.
Blogging For An Income
On the other hand, the majority of new bloggers seem to be interested in earning through blogging, which reduces the options. Having said that, my preferred system for blogging is using the self hosted version ofWordPress . It beats, in my opinion, all other blogging tools hands down. Nothing comes near it and I even know of web designers who use it on clients web sites as a Content Management tool to install sites in no time. Its popularity is part of its success, meaning that you could download free ‘Theme’ and plenty of plugins to enable you to customise your site in minutes, though you know nothing around websites.
The downsides? Well you do need to buy a URL and hosting and install WordPress. Actually, it is not that difficult once you are used to it, it merely costs you with the hosting. Some hosts have a single click installation forWordPress whilst others require you to download the files, unzip them and then FTP them to the server. But that is not that difficult.
Blogging An Income, For Free
Finally, if you really cannot face installing WordPress or cannot afford hosting and your own URL, what options are left for you? Well of the free blogging tools that I know around the just one that still allows advertising is Google’s Blogger. Head more than there, sign up for an account, choose your blog name and you are up and running and ready to website. Straightforward!
But why doesn’t everyone who is blogging for an income use Blogger? The answer is simple, numerous advertisers will not pay for sites with a Blogger domain name. Therefore, you quite often still end up paying for a domain name anyway.
So, if you want to know what is the best blogging tool, then I would say WordPress, But if you want to do it for free, then there are alternatives that may be suitable, but reducing any chances of an income.
Written by Keith Lunt of How To Start My Blog. Call in if you need any help or advice with earning money blogging.
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