Deciding Your Blog Platform

Blogging can be awful if you choose the wrong blogging platform, I know many want to have a blog, that isn’t WordPress powered because they think it’s a newbie platform and because everybody else is using it. That may be your opinion, but it is not mine, it is not Darren Rowse’s, it is not Yaro Starak’s.

These bloggers are all professional bloggers, they really know their stuff. So I don’t think it is a newbie platform, almost every top blogger is using WordPress. There are many great blogging platforms, to choose. I started out with Blogger(blogspot) a couple years ago. Then I bought my own domain and decided to go for WordPress.

I have tried lots of blog platforms, the reason why I find WordPress the best is

• Over 6,161 free plug-ins
• Over 926 free themes
• Easy to manage (to upload pictures, videos etc.)

Here is a list of competitive blogging platforms

• Blogger/Blogspot
• TypePad/MoveableType
• B2Evolution
• TextPattern
• Expression Engine
• BlogWare

And that’s just to mention a few other blogging platforms than WordPress.

If you don’t want to code your web-design, yourself and neither want to outsource a web-designer to create your design and just want to pay for web hosting and domain name. I think you should go for WordPress with all the possible WordPress designs.

WordPress have over 926 available designs, for free, while blog platforms like Blogger have around 40 templates to choose between, and it’s easier to code a WordPress design than to code a Blogger design.

It may be easy for you, to decide, which blogging platform to go for, but I know lots of people have problem finding a great platform.

I recommend WordPress because I think that is the best blogging platform available for ambitious bloggers. Among the 6,161 WordPress plugins there is lots of WordPress SEO plugins, which really can make your rank amazing in Google. Generally blogs is ranking good on Google, but it is much easier if you get some help, from the plugins available.

I don’t think you can get me wrong, I really like WordPress, if you have the budget to get a domain and web hosting, if you don’t like that, I really recommend Blogger from Google, so that will be my second choice.