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What Is The Greatest Weblog System?

By: Keith R Lunt

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What is the best blog platform is possibly a bit of a loaded question. Overall, I’d have to say that the self-hosted version WordPress wins the award hands down. But not in all cases. There are times when I think it would be better for bloggers to bring into play other platforms.

Why is the self-hosted version so superior? Well, you install it for free into your individual paid hosting. The package is free to download and use, although if you have a website designer do the work for you they are allowed to charge you for their set-up time.

Free Installation

Once it is up and running you can install, again for free, plugins to do many jobs for you. From extra security to search engine optimisation they are all on offer to download for free. Themes, the straight forward layouts of your web site, are also on hand for free from loads of different web pages.

So the self-hosted version of Wordpress is fully customisable and has plenty of add ins on offer. And it is free. What can be better?

The Draw Back Of WordPress

Well, for a number of people, the process of a registering a domain name, setting up your own hosting and then FTPing the files to your new website, whilst not being overly complicated, is still to some extent technical. It is workable for anyone and everyone to follow a small number of simple instructions and load and install a WordPress installation, but I can identify with why some people would back off from the thought and prefer something else.

So what is there?

Blogger Is A Good Second Choice

Well, I would say hot second favourite is Blogger. It seems that if you don’t use self-hosted WordPress, then you are most likely going to use Blogger. Blogger is easy to set-up and to start blogging. Sign up to the service, find an available name and you are up and running.

So it is great for those frightened of the technical aspects of self-hosted WordPress, whilst also avoiding the web site hosting and database hosting fees. The only downside is that you have a Blogger website name. This is not as profitably as having your own web site name if you are getting into the field of sponsored posts and so on.

But they have a fix for this. With Blogger you can follow their instructions, procure your own domain name and operate that for your weblog.

So for the technically minded, ready and able to handle the hosting aspect, I would suggest installing WordPress, whilst for those wishing a quick and easy entry into the blogging world, go for Blogger.

There is one exception!

If you are blogging about certain niches, then there can be specialised websites set-up ready for you. I use WordPress for all of my blogs, except for my running web site. Why, well if you look at a specialist service supplier who concentrates on blogs only from one niche, you can get one very big advantage.

This huge benefit is summed up in one word - Visitors. If you pull a lot of traffic with the same interests together and they all start to weblog, they read the other blogs on the system.

But I still think self-hosted WordPress wins the day!

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Written by Keith Lunt, of www.janric.co.uk. If you want more ideas, call into our website.

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