Before starting today’s article I’ll wrap-up few important posts written in the past, they cover the basic guidelines before you start blogging.
- Most Important Tips to Follow Before You Buy a Domain Name
- How Does a Good Domain Name Looks Like ?
- How to Find a Good & Proper Niche For Your Blog ?
- Few Things to Consider Before You Start a Blog
- Structure of a Blog
- 10 Reasons Why You Should Start Blogging
- What is a Blog?
Though there are many blogging platforms out there but two blogging platforms that I prefer the most are (i) Blogger (ii) WordPress. Lets discuss about them in detail.
Blogger
It is a free blogging tool owned by Google. You do not need a single penny to start a blog on Blogger, simply create a Gmail account and log into Blogger and create a blog. But there are few advantages and disadvantages of using Blogger. They are :
Advantages
- Its free
- Provides environment to design your own templates/themes/designs
- Provides unlimited bandwidth
- You can create unlimited blogs
- No downtime
Disadvantages
- Limited features
- Not SEO friendly as WordPress is
In a nutshell, you can start a blog on Blogger if :
- You do not have initial investment to start a blog
- You are new to blogging
- You want to start a personal blog
WordPress
One of my favorite blogging platform, that is free to download but if you want to host it on internet you need to buy hosting. Click here to download WordPress. Below are some advantages and disadvantages of WordPress :
Advantages
- Most flexible blogging platform
- Lots of option to customize your theme/template
- Plugin feature makes it easy to add new features to our template
- Best for professional blogging
- SEO friendly, Google loves WordPress
- User friendly
Disadvantages
- According to me, WordPress has no disadvantage that I can think of
In a nutshell
If you want to start a blog and you want to take it to the topmost level, I would recommend you WordPress blogging platform.
Also read : Best hosting provider for WordPress
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I would rather call this post as “two of my favourite blogging platforms” than “two of my favourite blogging softwares”
There is a thing in blogger which wordpress don’t have,its not so important but yet useful.
Like in blogger we have an option i.e the post template,in which what ever you write or input(HTML too)goes with your every new post which you create.
In wordpress there must be a similar option.