Blog Sites : A List of The Best Blogging Sites and Blogging Softwares

If you want to start successful Blog Sites you must choose the right blogging platform or blogging software. As I told you in my article, how to make a blog site, you must have a clear idea of what  blogging is, what your goals are, and how much money are you willing to invest.

If you are just getting started with blogging and you haven’t learned much about the techniques involved to create a blog site that has success, and you don’t want to take the risk of investing on your own self hosted blog, then you should choose from one of the many free blog sites that give you the opportunity to get started without having to take something out of your pocket. Some people may believe that these sites aren’t as effective as self hosted blogs might be, maybe they are right in some ways, but they may also be wrong about other things that might come as a benefit when choosing properly the right free blog site.

Benefits of Free Blog Sites:

Blog sites that are free and play a major role in the blogging world offer you benefits that in order to aquire them for your self hosted blog would require investingo much more time and money.

- Some established free blog sites have very high alexa rankings for each of your new pages.

- Each webpage or blog which you produce will get indexed faster, because they carry the weight of the big site to     which they belong.

- Free blog sites are already listed in major directories that would require investing a generous amount of money to get listed. Example : Yahoo directory listing.

- Free blogging services give you the opportunity to make money even you have no money, some let you keep all the money, with others you must share some of your earnings. In either case most of the times it won’t matter because you do save a lot of time and effort by the tools they provide for free, in a self hosted blog you would have to incorporate most of these things by paying for them and for others you would have to take a long time of trial and error until you reached the point were your blog could be effective after a long learning and investing process.

- Domain age: Free blogging sites usually are old and very well known, and they have projected themselves their business for quite a long run, so their domain age is already old which is valued by the search engines, and the expiring dates of their domains are probably undefined, which means that they have paid to have that domain for a very long time which gives them even more extra value in the search engines.

The cons fo choosing one of these sites are that you don not have control over your hosting, if the hosting managers decide that your content is inappropriate or if they believe that you are not following the propre guidelines then they might close your account, therefore you wouldn’t be able to claim money if you had made any and you would have lost all of your invested time as well. But all and all if you do things right then you probably might never get shut down and you could make some serious money from taking advantages from services such as theirs.

I want to start the list of blog sites with the free blogging platforms which I believe that are always more appealing to beginners, through these sites you will be given a lot of benefits that allow you to rank high, get a lot of search engine traffic, learn a lot about the subject which in this case is blogging, and you can get started immediatly to start trying out and applying things that you learn through this process.

Free Blog Sites List:

1. Blogger.com : Blogspot is probably the best free blogging platform overall, it is very flexible, you get to choose as many templates as you want online, so you can make it look how you want, you can also pick any of the default templates which allow you to make a professional blog without messing the original html configuration that blogspot blogs, the original templates are very well optimized for the search engines . It is also very easy to integrate monetization methods to your blogspot blog site, because it just about clicking and dragging and dropping, you can easily place adsense ads through their adsense widget, you can easily insert affiliate products through the html/java gadget which allow you to copy any code you want paste it anywhere you want. Inserting pictures and video is very easy as well, anything that you could think of doing to your blog to improve it can be done easily with any of their options or gadgets. Blogspot blog sites come right off the bat very well optimized as i’ve said before, most of the competitive keywords have blogspot blog on the first page result, although numbers are dropping it doesn’t matter because it may be because a lot of people are starting to host their own wp blog site.
2. Squidoo : This is a blog site indeed, you have to choose a topic and write about it, and that is exactly what blogging is. Of course you are not allowed to make single blogs that are very big, you know blogs that have a lot pages and that are categorized and archived, etc. No, here you create single web pages that are called lenses, you can make as many lenses as you want, and you can string them all together through links if choose to make a whole lot of pages on one niche with different keywords. With lenses you should focus on one keyword per page. The cool thing about squidoo is that they provide you with a lot of easy to use modules, you only have to click on add and that’s it, they provide you with enough modules to create content easily, the hard part that is writing could be cut short vastly and still produce a lot of lenses that would make money. On squidoo adsense blocks are already integrated so the adsense earnings are shared with all users according to their lensrank, higher lensrank higher adsense earnings. But you can also monetize with affiliate products through the modules they offer which are perfect for people that really don’t know about anything, you will be able to insert amazon modules, ebay modules, cafe press modules and zazzle modules, of course by using their affiliate marketing modules you would have to share part of your comission with squidoo if you generated a sale. But you can promote your own affiliate products as well so you can keep all the earnings by placing your affiliate links within the content in the text modules, you can insert banners and anything else that can be done through html or css, the only thing that is not allowed is placing interest based ads such as adsense. Another great thing is that the alexa rank of each lens you make will be very high, you will get indexed very fast, and since you carry the weight of such a large site then you can probably or you will probably rank in the first page within the first results if you do a proper keyword research and apply a proper keyword strategy. Of course keyword strategy is what creates success for any blog site be it free or self hosted.
3. Hubpages: The hubpages service is unbelievable, it is very similar to squidoo except that they call their pages “hubs”, creating a hub is very easy as well, but they require a little bit more of hardwork when creating one. Because they are more focused on quality, which have made them a very credible source of information which. They offer a very easy to use platform as well, the provide you with modules as well, but you have to focus a lot more on content creation, on unique content. This have made them gain a lot of trust in google’s eyes therefore they are being highly valued by the search engines oftenly reaching number one for any keyword, you must focus on one keyword per hub as well to get the most benefits. In hubpages you will be able to insert your own adsense code and your own kontera in text ads code, you do not get 100% of the earnings because visitors are split between you and them, givin you both the opportunity to make money off this blog site. They get 40% of the visitors which gives them a forty percent chance to make money from every visitor, and you get the other 60%.
4. Wordpress.com : You may have heard about all the great things that wordpress has to offer, of course the real benefits of wordpress are not within their free blog site, the true power of a wordpress relies within a having your blog on a website hosting service. But wordpress.com is free, it can be monetized not as well as monetizing a blogspot free blog because you cannot place adsense on them. But they do work , they get very high rankings, so you can choose them to promote affiliate products or redirect traffic to other sites were you might get all the earnings if money is made.
5. Blogsome.com : I forgot  about this one, today  I just wanted to let you all know that blogsome blogs are doing very good lately you can see a lot of them on the first page of search engine results, and they are quite easy to create and manage.

Here’s a list of the with more of the best Free Blog Sites to where you can get started today without investing, of course I will provide just the list or else this article will be too long and I still have to talk about blogs that must be hosted by yourself through good website hosting services.

1. Greatestjournal.com
2. Insanejournal.com
3. Journalfen.net
4. LiveJournal.com
5. Blogabond.com
6. Busythumbs.com
7. blogrox.com
8. Blogsome.com
9. Blogladder.com
10. Blogster.com
11. Bravenet.com
12. Bloki.com
13. Soulcast.com
14. Terapad.com
15. Tumblr.com
16. Zoomshare.com

List Of Blog Sites that must be Self Hosted :

1. Wordpress.org : I’ve said a millions time before , probably you have heard a lot in other places as well. The best software to create an efficient, powerful, professional blog site. You can create niche sites and very big sites that will just make your blog or business potential go through the roof. If you create a wordpress with great content and great keyword strategy then sucess will be nothing but an option, I have nothing else to say if you are serious about making money online then you should focus on wordpress.
2. Typepad.com : Also very effective, may be a little bit expensive, I haven’t tried it but some say that it is worth it.
3. Movabletype.org: Has been growing steadily and hosts some of the greatest blogs on the internet next to wordpress.
4. Blogsmith.com

The benefit of self hosted blog sites or websites is that you can do them about any topic that you want, it won’t be shut down, it might get dropped from the index lists of the search engines but since you are probably serious about this then you will be a legit blogger that does not apply any black hat techniques, so you won’t have any problem at all if it’s free or self hosted.

Now you can get out there and start your own blog site, free or self hosted as you may like it, now all you have to do is choose one these blog sites and begin a new journey that might open the gates for a whole new world that will allow you to get money in any way you want it, providing you the freedom and economical independence you always dreamed of.

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