I read your blog but your stack at what blogging platform to use keep liking and just feel lucky through how to pick the best blogging pla...
I read your blog but your stack at what blogging platform to use keep liking and just feel lucky through how to pick the best blogging platform for your blog and will cover nine different blogging platform so you can get a better idea of which one is best.
When you look at take a blogging platform to start some of the things that you want to be thinking about when choosing the blogging platform you want to make sure that it's easy to use for you beginner friendly than a lot of technical things to get started, just want to make sure that it's feature-rich, or that their features are available for what you want your block to do and then do you have room to grow both in terms of the features that you need and the functionality but also you may not be thinking about earning money yet, but if you want to make it burn money in the future is their ability for you to add things like advertisements on your site affiliate marketing and things like that.
The heading of those things in mind us are looking at the different platforms that you can use for your website. First will talk about is WordPress.org.
This is the open source software that means it's free for you to use and it's also free for you to contribute that were present@workisdifferentthanwordpress.com and you've probably heard many people say just get a WordPress site up and will talk about WordPress.com in a minute.
Many of the pros for WordPress.org are that you have maximum control over your site no one will be able to shut down your site because you are not following whatever the rules are next thing are the most robust features out there anything that you think you want to do with your blog to take it to the next level, whether it be adding features like forum membership site e-commerce.
If you wanted to. That's all available to you by using the repressed network platform. There are thousands of thousands of plug-ins.
These are the things that help you make your site. Do what you wanted to do by adding the extra functionality there also thousands of themes both free and paid to make your blog look exactly how you wanted to look at coming with that maximum control of your site.
Some of the cons are that you are tasked with maintaining your blog yourself and that means you must update your site and keep all the plug-ins and themes updated in you also be tasked with taking backups of your site if you write a lot of times the hosting provider that you work with can help you with some of these items.
The price for using WordPress. As I said before the actual software itself is free but you have to have us a server to host this on and the server or the hosting company that you get the server from they will actually charge a fee and depending on which hosting company you go with that can range in price and the average range is about 1299 a month, but as a WP beginner visitor you can get it for as low as 275 a month through blue host and will have a length and a description below for you to get that discount with that.
You also get the free SSL certificate for your site that secures your site for visitors and you would also get a free domain registration.
Normally domain registrations. If you don't go if that is usually about 14 dollars a year to renew your www.mysite.com that your domain name and excellent will okay is wicks and some of the pros of wicks is that it's a fully hosted platform, meaning you just go and sign up.
They have many templates to choose from to get up and running quickly have built-in functionality for you to get started, but some of the cons are. It shows wicks branding.
There is a free version of it, but it shows wicks branding unless you pay for a higher tier. Another thing is they'll show ads on the site but you don't get those ad revenue they will get the ad revenue for that and also moving can be difficult.
It's actually one of the more difficult sites to move if later on. You've decided you want to host your blog somewhere else. It's very difficult to move it off of wicks.
The price range is free for the free tier you get basically your site with the wicks branding and the URL you want to pay for in the ranges between nine and $26 a month in earlier I talked about WordPress.org an hour to discuss WordPress.com so WordPress.com is using the same software as WordPress.org, but there hosting it in their housing it on their own servers and your simply paying them to do it all for some of the pros for this error.
There is no set required inducible login, start paying and year ready to go. It's also the really easy to use and manage.
Now the cons for this is you do have limited functionality for your blog. It also means that you can't run as on your blog and you don't own your blog.
If you do something on your site. I write about something that they don't agree with. They can shut your blog down and whatever traffic and whatever visitors you've built up you've lost that the price structure for this is free for the bottom tier where it could be your site.
I WordPress.com you can get custom domain names and the range for the patent. Here is between four and eight dollars a month.
The next blogging platform. Let's talk about blocker so blog is owned by Google Blogger was acquired by Google in 2013 and is offered up to people to use as a blogging platform and some of the pros are that it's free, completely free to login and use as you once pretty easy to use and is a Google product so secure and reliable.
You know that the security of it is pretty high up there. Some of the cons to it. Are you have limited features is that their name source of income, nor is it their main focus and so you have limited features.
Also, they can also suspend your account anytime. If you write about something that they don't agree with. So again you don't own your information or your blog.
Other things that they can just simply shut down the whole service, so if one day they decide they don't want to deal with blocker anymore than the nets. A real possibility.
As I sent Blogger is free to use the next blogging platform that you can look at is tumbler hunger is a microblogging service generally geared towards like sharing images and videos and Pictures and things like that but a lot people really enjoy using tumbler for this and obviously some of the pros are that it is free and easy to use and get set up.
It is integrated with social media is a lot easier to share things through their the real easy platform to blog, videos or images, audio as well. Some of the cons forwarder limited features difficult to migrate the blog.
If you ever want to move away to a different platform that's very difficult to do the customer tumbler is that it's free and it's usually your site a tumbler.com or if you want to add a custom domain and there will be a cost for that.
The next platform will talk about is medium medium. Launched in 2012 and it is geared more towards strictly writing and blogging and very little networking capabilities with it and some of the pros are that it's free and easy to use with median.
You can reach an existing community online since medium shares or articles with people who have similar interests to what you're writing about the leisure to focus solely on writing and that simply because there's no themes involved with at all.
Now some of the cons. On the flipside of those pros and the fact that there are limited features, you're not really going to set up. You can't set up an e-commerce site.
You can't set up your own form, things like that. Next it's mediums audience and not yours.
So yes, I can send you some traffic, but if you ever wanted to do anything with those that audience is not really your traffic. They're not coming to your site to read about your stuff.
Also, you can't run ads and you can't set up commerce site. Things like that. So if you're wanting to make money, then this being your soul place of blogging is not going to be great for that.
It is free to use. Although they are doing kind of a pay wall for readers where people have to pay to continue to read and there will be some interesting changes over the next couple years to see how this changes over the over the months to come.
Let's talk about Squarespace Squarespace is a great blogging platform and using great easy-to-use drag-and-drop features.
Most of the people that they're looking for are more like small businesses to create an online presence. So that's their main focus of their people.
Some of the pros first Squarespace art that it's very easy for beginners great drag-and-drop feature beautifully professionally designed templates for you to use and a lot of people really like that.
You can also add an e-commerce set up if you want cons are that it is a proprietary platform and so that features are pretty limited. Insist based on what they're pushing out.
So if you wanted something different and you might not get the feature that you want for your site. There also limited integrations since it's a proprietary platform is not too many third-party developers who can create something to integrate with your website and the personal plan.
It's pretty limited. You only get 20 pages for your personal plan you to get your blog and then you only get to contributors.
The price structure for this is, it can range from 1299 a month to $18 a month depending on if you pay upfront or not, and that if you wanted to add an e-commerce then bump that up to $26-$40 a month as well and you have to purchase your domain name separately.
The next one is ghost. It's a minimalist blogging platform and they really pare down on all the features that they offer so that people just focus on writing and that's actually one of the biggest crows for that is your only focusing on your writing and your blogging is also very clean and clutter free and it's fast because it's built on JavaScript.
That's fast if you go with their hosting version. Then there is no set up that you have to worry about some of the things to consider as it is not easy to customize with apps because of the limited features is limited integrations as well as limited themes for trying to do the self installation.
It's complicated and not very easy to do. The price structure for this, is it 799 a month and you also pay 1499 a year for a domain name if you let them post it for you than its $19 a month for one blog and you get a limit of 25,000 page views and finally we'll talk about weekly weekly is another blogging platform that hosts everything for you and they have a great clean drag-and-drop feature for you to get up and running some of the pros artfully hosted the drag-and-drop design for you are able to test features on a free plan to see if that works for you and if you want to go up to a different tier.
Some of the cons for weekly are that they have limited features like with Squarespace. They have limited third-party integrations and migrating the site is quite difficult if you ever decide to move to a different platform.
If you ever are on weekly and you want to migrate to WordPress. We've created a weekly to WordPress migration tool and a link to that in the description below for you.
The price for weekly is it's free tear if it's your site that weekly.com. Other than that it's as much as eight dollars a month. If you're billed annually with limited features.
And then it can go up to $49 a month if you want to unlock all of the features that they have and you have to buy the domain separately. Now, obviously, for us we always think that WordPress.org is the best one to do and we think the combination of WordPress.org and blue host is your best option when just getting started.
If you're wanting to take your bike seriously and you're wanting to eventually grow this into a moneymaking venture and WordPress.org is the best place to start.
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