How to choose the best blog platform

You want to make a blog and you don’t know which blog platform you’ll use,
are you going to use a free platform? Or buy your own host? And what sort of platform should you use WordPress or Blogger?

Choosing the best blogging platform depends on the content of your blog and its purpose, I can’t tell you which blog platform you should use, because there are many competitive platforms in the market and it make the decision difficult, instead I’m going to give you some tips that will help you get a general idea about choosing the best platform that suits your needs.

Let’s start with a simple example, if you want to make a blog and you just want to offer information about different or a particular subject and you don’t want to spend a dime in it just use Blogger.com it’s the best easy platform to make your simple first blog, it’s free famous and simple. For more information take a quick tour.

The same first situation goes here if you want to make a blog and you want to make money with it and you don’t want to spend anything on it you may also use blogger.com platform, once you sing up you can go to GoogleAdsense then you’ll copy and past the script they gave you on your blog . For more instructions please visit this link.

Now if you want to play hardball and go pro you’ll have to use WordPress.org, first you have to buy your own host and domain name then install WordPress script on your host and here you go, you can put your affiliate links and scripts and even sell your blog if you like.

Some people like to make their blog in a paid host without putting any affiliate links, well if you don’t need money and you have a lots of it and you love bloggin very much you can do the same.

Many people don’t choose their blog platform depending on how it is suitable for them but just because they like it or it is used by most people, in 3^rd December 2007 Problogger.net made a poll asking their readers which blog platform do they use? And the result came like this:

As you can see the number one blog platform is WordPress.org with 36%, Blogger in the second place with 25%, WordPress.com coming third then the other platforms, if you like to participate in the poll go here.