The 11 Best Blogging and Publishing Platforms on the Internet Today

If you are new to blogging but having short of cash? These are the best blogging platforms to consider.
Introduction to Blogging:

It can be defined as the act of posting something on web or commenting on someone else's blog.

Blogging is very popular today because it allows people to interact with each other. Blogging has also become a popular search engine optimization (SEO) tool because search engines like Google and Yahoo know that a blog is frequently updated with content or visitor comments, so their spiders visit blogs frequently looking for new content to include in their index.- according to  Randy Duermyer

Read Also : Why you should start blogging?

Today we have lot of platform for arguing, communicating, sharing eg: Facebook, twitter, Google plus and many more other but it has not affected popularity of blogging. But instead it became a great source of traffic on blog. People like topic on social networking sites and want to read complete post and such a traffic comes in blog.

"In fact, the truth is that there’s never been a better time to blog. Social networks help build audiences and deliver content to readers, and more established blogs and websites often link to or aggregate smaller sites, sending swarms of viewers to read articles" — The Daily Mail aside

In previous post we have seen 12 reasons why you should start blogging. In this blog we explore 11 of the best blogging platforms for newcomers who want to get a blog up and running.

1. Blogger : blogger.com



Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. A user can have up to 100 blogs per account. (wikipedia)

2. Wordpress : wordpress.com



WordPress is a free and open-source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. WordPress was used by more than 23.3% of the top 10 million websites as of January 2015. WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites. (wikipedia)

3. Wordpress : wordpress.org



4. Tumblr : tumblr.com


Tumblr (stylized in its logo as tumblr.) is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private. (wikipedia)

5. Medium : medium.com



Medium is a blog-publishing platform. It was founded by Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone in August 2012. The platform has evolved into a hybrid of non-professional contributions and professional, paid contributions, an example of social journalism. (wikipedia)

6. Svbtle : svbtle.com



SVBTLE is a writing and reading network designed from the ground up to work the same way your brain does. It helps you think. Svbtle is blogging with everything else taken away. (website)

7. Ghost: Ghost.org



Ghost is a simple, powerful publishing platform that allows you to share your stories with the world.

8. Pen.io



Publish a Beautiful Blog Post Online in Seconds. It takes just seconds to publish your article and share it with the world

9. Weebly : weebly.com



Weebly is a web-hosting service that allows the user to "drag-and-drop" while using their website builder. As of August 2012, Weebly hosts over 20 million sites with a monthly rate of over 1 million unique visitors. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. The company was originally founded by chief executive officer (CEO) David Rusenko, chief technology officer (CTO) Chris Fanini, and chief operating officer (COO) Dan Veltri. (wikipedia)

10. Postach.io



The Evernote Powered Blogging Platform, the easiest way to blog. Simply connect a notebook and tag notes "published".

11. LiveJournal : livejournal.com