If you are starting a weblog, what is the best blogging platforms that you could use? Which is easy to set-up, brilliant to customise and well search engine optimised?
In my view, there is only one truly magnificent piece of blogging package on the internet. But it is not always the best for all people, there are sometimes alternatives whilst not the best for the a load, are better for distinct niches?
So what attributes make up the best blogging package on the market? I believe that it has to:
* Be free to use - there are so many paid for blogging tools about, why pay for application?
* Be flexible and extendible - if you want to add a feature to it, for instance site maps, captcha checked contact forms, this must be straightforward to do.
* Be straightforward to set-up and install.
* Be straightforward to make it look different to other blogs - there is no point in running a professional site that looks like 3,000,000 other websites.
* Have ready made (and free) off-the-shelf styles readily available to install at the touch of a button.
* Be well search engine optimised and accepted by the search engines.
* Ideally, it should have a community of other bloggers that could also drift in excess of to your new website from related blogs.
Well, in my view WordPress.org ticks all but the last of the above boxes. There is just that last box left unticked. In fact, if you look into WordPress.com, that does have the community of bloggers in the version of WordPress that it hosts, but there is not the flexibility and if you are running schemes for example paid posting, you are not allowed to run a website there.
WordPress is also straightforward to install. If you are comfortable with downloading, unzipping and FTPing to a server, then it is straightforward to set-up and create it onto virtually any paid hosting account. If you are not so technically competent and are only setting up a weblog for tasks as for instance home working, then the other extraordinary news round WordPress is that a load of hosts have simple installation systems. With these, you buy the domain name and some hosting and easily press a button or two and the package is installed for you.
But, what if you don't want to, or might't afford to, pay for hosting? Well, there are still pieces of blogging tools to use and in this case, take a look at Blogger, which is my second preferred for blogging. There are not so loads of avenues open to you, but it is still just a few clicks to install Google Adsense to earn a bit of cash and you are allowed to earn some extra cash through paid posting.
So, that is my recommendations for the best blogging platforms. Ideally you should install WordPress, but if you don't want to pay a penny for the tool, then take a look at Blogger. Between them, they have everything covered. Happy blogging and feel free to leave a comment as to how you got on with your new weblog.
Author Resource:
Keith Lunt owns http://www.howtostartmyblog.com , where you can learn everything you need to now about how to start a blog .
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