Which Software is Appropriate for Blogging ?

What is Blog?

Blog is a short form of “weblog”. Basically, it is a website or an online diary which can be seen by people all around the world. It is just like an open blank paper where you can write anything your heart and mind tells. Anyone can have blog for any purpose to write what you are passionate for like sports, cooking, fashion, literature, news, inspiring stuffs, jokes, films, travel, agriculture, tech news, arts, etc. If you are passionate for photograph, then you can simply add photos in your blog. There are millions of blogs in existence and thousands of new blogs are registered daily. Only 2-3% blog is successful among mushroom like growing myriad blogs. It depends upon you to be in 2-3 % or rest?

Different software for Blogging

Software and hosting are subtle if you are new in blog. Software is an operating program while hosting provides shelter to your blog in the world of internet. Different forms of software and hosting are available in the markets which are listed below:

• 1)     Free software & free hosting
• 2)      Free software & paid hosting
• 3)      Paid software & free hosting
• 4)      Paid software & paid hosting 

If you are new in a blog and gonna use it as a passion for individual purpose, free software/hosting is the best. Why to spend money if you have all necessary features in free route? If you are using your blog for business purpose just like selling products or services, you need more space and features so 1st type isn’t suitable for you. So you can choose later one.

Here, I am going to provide brief description i.e advantages and disadvantages of two top rated free software for blogging. I hope it helps you to decide for appropriate one.

Wordpress.com:- It is as easy as ABC to use, provides better tutorial and automatic features like spam blocking plug-in, automatic pinging, etc. Connections with other websites and applications can be done easily. So, better publicity and dissemination of your blog can be made. Many useful gadgets like Tag Cloud, Top Rated, Top Posts and Pages, Categories, My Community, etc are provided by wordpress. To its downside, it doesn’t allow ads such as Adsense, Textlinkads, so monetizing through advertisement isn’t possible. However, it allows Wordads for good trafficking blogs. Browsing the blog is slow for new blogs.

To create blog from wordpress.com, click here.

 Wordpress.org is different from wordpress.com. Wordpress.com is free software & provides free hosting while you have to pay for hosting in wordpress.org.                                                   

Blogger: - Blogger is free, easy to use and it allows ads to monetize blog. Blogs are quickly searched and browsed. It runs under google server so has access to google services like Youtube, Picasa, Google Plus, Google Analytics, etc.  27 basic gadgets like Translate, Follow by email, popular posts, categories, etc are provided by the blogger along with many other third party gadgets. Its negative part is it’s vulnerable to outages and blockages due to strict rules and regulations. 

Don’t be confused. Blogger and blogspot are the same.

You should sign in with google account (gmail, youtube, etc) to start using blogger. If you don’t have google account yet, click here to create one.

 If you want monetization, you may try blogger. If monetization isn’t important to you, then wordpress.com is apt.

If you have already a blog, which software do you use? And if you haven’t yet, what you decided? Please share on the comments which are highly appreciated.

Happy blogging!