How to choose effective blogging platform, step by step guide

Well for every new blogger the most difficult task is to choose the blogging platform to start from . There are many to choose from and I am here to help you out with it . Well there are many other blogging platforms other than WordPress to start your blogging from . Here are few of them

WordPress Blogging Platform –well it's the most popular and widely used platform used all around the world . According to a survey every one out of five websites run on it . Well it is absolutely free and one gets to a range of options to choose from from its library .

• Advantages – it basically most trusted and flexible platform as almost everything can be done with its help and thus one can create anything they like .Then it is also absolutely freer rather than the server and the domain cost , a number of plugins are available and also you get your hands on an uncountable number of themes which means that one can customize their site as they want to .
• Disadvantages – well it doesn’t seem to have many disadvantages but the main disadvantage is that because it offers many things within a small space it becomes pretty much complicated to work on .

Tumblr –well its one of the blogging platform hot in news because of its 1.1M acquisition by Yahoo .Tumblr pioneered the tumblog or micro blogging phenomenon. It helps user share only few pictures or videos instead of writing the whole thing .

• Advantages -  it helps in choosing the type of post one wants in the blog , it has a huge stock of themes to choose from , it has a mobile friendly interface and it also allows the user to post through sms or emails .
• Disadvantages – well very high end graphical contents like videos and picture will cause some problems and it also misses out on the antivirus blog .

Blogger – well it has been one of the earliest blogging platforms and is owned by Google itself . It has been responsible for the promotion of blogging and is also considered as the favorite blogging platform by users even though it has been long neglected by Google .

• Advantages – well it is the most user-friendly blogging platform and can be used by anyone quite easily , secondary that it has been out there for such a long time that it has gained the trust of everyone and lastly it’s pretty much stable and thus is still popular among users .
• Disadvantages – it’s pretty difficult to set up one’s own domain name and secondly one doesn’t get much of a choice to choose from themes and backgrounds for their sites .

Word of advice – well at last I would like to finish with is that every blogger has his own requirements so he should first think about the platform which soot’s him the best and then choose one and you needn’t worry about options to choose from because there are plenty more if these aren’t enough for you.