If you are starting a weblog, what is the best blogging programs that you could use? Which is straightforward to set-up, brilliant to customise and well search engine optimised?
In my view, there is only one truly amazing piece of blogging tools on the internet. But it is not always the best for all people, there are sometimes alternatives whilst not the best for the heaps, are better for distinct niches?
So what attributes make up the best blogging tools on the market? I believe that it has to:
* Be free to use - there are so lots of paid for blogging tools around, why pay for application?
* Be flexible and extendible - if you want to add a feature to it, for instance web site maps, captcha checked contact forms, this must be easy to do.
* Be easy to set-up and install.
* Be simple to make it look different to other blogs - there is no point in running a professional website that looks like 3,000,000 other websites.
* Have ready made (and free) off-the-shelf styles readily available to install at the touch of a button.
* Be well search engine optimised and accepted by the search engines.
* Ideally, it should have a community of other bloggers that could also drift in excess of to your new blog from related sites.
Well, in my view WordPress.org ticks all but the last of the above boxes. There is merely that last box left unticked. In fact, if you look into WordPress.com, that does have the community of bloggers in the version of WordPress that it hosts, but there is not the flexibility and if you are running schemes as for instance paid posting, you are not allowed to run a site there.
WordPress is also straightforward to install. If you are comfortable with downloading, unzipping and FTPing to a server, then it is easy to set-up and create it onto nigh on any paid hosting account. If you are not so technically competent and are only setting up a blog for tasks as for instance working from home, then the other fabulous news round WordPress is that a load of hosts have simple installation systems. With these, you buy the domain name and some hosting and simply press a button or two and the tools is installed for you.
But, what if you don't want to, or could't afford to, pay for hosting? Well, there are still pieces of blogging software to use and in this case, take a look at Blogger, which is my second favourite for blogging. There are not so many avenues open to you, but it is still merely a few clicks to install Google Adsense to earn a bit of money and you are allowed to earn some extra cash through paid posting.
So, that is my recommendations for the best blogging program. Ideally you should install WordPress, but if you don't want to pay a penny for the tool, then take a look at Blogger. Between them, they have everything covered. Happy blogging and feel free to leave a comment as to how you got on with your new blog.
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