You can never go out of choices on the internet, be it anything, from Social Networking websites to Email Services. If you are starting out Blogging, you have got plenty of choices on what platform to Choose. There are plenty of them, but the best ones are WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr.
Though all the three services offer the same feature of publishing content with an ease and sharing them across other platforms, there are slight differences, which makes them unique in their own sense. Let’s take a close look at all three services.
WordPress
WordPress offers two ways to start your blog, WordPress.Org offers a software which can be hosted on a custom domain and has a lot of flexibility, but that’s too technical.
in case you just want to start a hobby blog, we will talk about WordPress.Com, where you can set up a blog in few seconds, then you are given a fancy control panel, which can take a while for you to learn all the functions, the best possible settings are already there, choose a layout and you are good to go, keep adding content to your blog which has a mobile friendly design as well.
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Also, you can buy a custom domain and point your blog to it. WordPress has been the first choice for people who create text content.
Blogger
Blogger, being a part of Google, makes it easy to set up a blog, when you are logged into Google, you are automatically logged into blogger, and it also has an easy control panel or dashboard to add posts.
Other things are, Google AdSense can be added easily to your blog which gives you the opportunity to monetize your blog. There are tons of widgets that can be added to your blog.
Because of the ease of use and setting up a blog, Bloggers is used by a lot of people but the quality blogs are rare to find, at least I have found only 5% blogs to be useful and others were just posting pirated songs and software. But that should not stop you from using it if you like Blogger being part of Google.
Tumblr
Tumblr is gaining more traction than any other blogging services these days, initially it was being promoted as a service which is between Blogging and Twitter (which are initially promoted as a micro-blogging service).
More hobby blogs have emerged on Tumblr and its mobile app makes it easy to update your blog on the go. Tumblr has divided the different formats of a content, which makes it easy to share any kind of content be it Text, Quite, Links, Images or a Simple chat Conversation.
All these different formats are presented in a beautiful manner. Like Blogger and WordPress, Tumblr can also be pointed to a custom domain. If you blog will be less about writing and more about sharing different stuff, Tumblr rocks.
I hope this post helps you make a decision, if you are still confused about it, try all of them as you can sign up for Free. Try posting the same articles on these platforms for a week or so and look which one you find easier, and then stick with it.
