Top 3 Best Blogger Platforms

Friends! Do you want to join in the blogging world? Would you like to become famous and even rich because of your thoughts and ideas, or consider this activity as a channel to have a huge circle of friends around the globe.... ? Okay! 
Before joining to these blogging environments, its very important to identify which among the world's famous blogging platforms is best in your goal. Most of these platforms are free and so easy to use. But few require a higher stage in terms of technicalities and require you a purchase web hosting.

1. WordPress
The most popular blogging platform in the world. WordPress is both a free publishing tool (via WordPress.com), and a content management system for self-hosted blogs (via WordPress.org). With a huge library of plugins and themes, WordPress provides a full spectrum of blogging solutions for casual bloggers as well as full-fledged businesses.Some of the most popular blogs in the world run on WordPress, such as Wall Street Journal blogs, People Magazine and Tech Crunch. The blog you’re reading right now runs on WordPress as well.

Advantages:

1. WordPress blog is very flexible and can run everything from an eCommerce store to a video-focused tum blog.
2. It's Free. The only expenses associated with running a WordPress blog are server and domain costs.
3. It has hundreds of thousands of plugins, courtesy of its vibrant open-source developer community.
4. It is more than a decade old and which gone through countless updates.
5. A wide theme library means you can customize your blog’s appearance to your heart’s content.

Disadvantages:

1. With great power, comes great complexity. WordPress, for all its power and speed, can be difficult to use for the average newbe, although excellent tutorials such as this WordPress course do help mitigate this flaw.
2. To take full advantage of WordPress features, you need to host it on your server, which can add significant overhead in terms of hosting, domain and CDN costs.
3. Customization often requires tinkering with code.

Highly Recommended for:

• Professional bloggers.
• Media companies and businesses that require a stable, professional blogging solution.

2. Blogger

Also called BlogSpot, Blogger is a Google owned blogging platform. Blogger was one of the earliest blogging services and was instrumental in bringing blogging to the mainstream. An oft-ignored property in Google’s cache of services, it nevertheless, continues to remain popular among casual bloggers. Popular blogs on the Blogger platform include the Twitter blog , PostSecret, and most of Google’s own blogs.

Advantages:

1. Blogger has been around longer than the dinosaurs, so all stability issues have pretty much been ironed out.
2. Monetization is easy thanks to built-in Google AdSense modules.
3. So easy to get started, even a caveman could do it.
4. If you’re the curious type, you won’t be able to harm the site by fiddling with the backend code.

Disadvantages:

1. If you’re the curious type, you won’t be able to customize the site by fiddling with the backend code.
2. Difficult to set up on your own domain name.
3. Limited themes and design styles.
4. Little community support in the form of plugins.

Highly Recommended for:

• Casual bloggers
• Businesses that want a simple bogging solution mainly for internal audiences.

3. Tumblr

Fresh off its $1.1B acquisition by Yahoo, Tumblr is one of the hottest web properties at a moment. Tumblr pioneered the tum blog or micro blogging phenomenon. Instead of writing complete posts, users are encouraged to share individual pictures, info graphics, comics, videos and links.Popular companies with a Tumblr  presence include The Atlantic, The Economist and GQ.

Advantages:

1. Publishing on Tumblr is as easy as choosing the post-type (image, video, text, or link) and hitting publish.
2. Tumblr’s Control Panel makes it extremely easy to manage multiple blogs.
3. Large variety of stunning themes.
4. Mobile friendly interface; dedicated mobile apps.
5. Ability to publish posts on the fly through SMS, email or audio message.

Disadvantages:

1. Highly visual design does not encourage text-heavy blogging.
2. Lack of comprehensive CDN, caching, or anti-virus plugins.
3. Emphasis on sharing devalues original content, particular textual content.

Highly Recommended for:

• Casual bloggers who want something between Twitter and WordPress.
• Businesses trying to expand their brand through visual content.

Take your time in choosing your blogging platform. A lot of these have free trials,sign-up, for which you like and try. Wait until you are ready and confident to use your chosen platform before you promote it. Blogging is a livelihood when associated with absolute patience and hard work.