10 Best Free Blogging Platforms For New Bloggers

Free Blogging Platforms For New Bloggers – Do you want to start up your own blog but you low on cash? Theses are 10 best free blogging platforms for new bloggers or old bloggers.

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10 Best Free Blogging Platforms For New Bloggers

In these article, we explore 10 of the best free blogging platforms for new bloggers would want to start up a blog without spending a dime. It’s possible!

01. WordPress

WordPress is the most popular free blogging platform available to everyone for no cost at all. You simple sign up – log in and create your blog. It’s that simple!

It’s easy to see why: on WordPress.com, you can easily and quickly create a new blog entirely for free, with a reasonable amount of customisation; alternatively, most web hosts provide WordPress as a free single-click install, and if you want more info on what’s possible on WordPress, Visit – WordPress.org.

New Bloggers might find WordPress a touch frightening at first, but it’s the best free option for anyone wanting a great mix of power, customisation and usage.

02. Tumblr

Tumblr claims it’s one of the easiest free blogging platforms to use and i agree with them but not entirely as i would pick WordPress before then and Blogger after them.

To some extent, Tumblr feels like a meeting point between WordPress and Twitter. It offers more scope than Twitter, but tends to favour rather more succinct output than WordPress.

Decent mobile apps make it easy to submit content to a Tumblr blog from anywhere, though, and it’s reasonably easy to customise your theme to make it your own.

Tumblr also has a strong social undercurrent, via a following model combined with notes and favourites. Although be mindful that the service has quite a few porn bots lumbering about, which may give the faint-of-heart a bit of a shock should they check every favourite off of their posts.

03. Blogger

Blogger is the longest running free blogging platform available but they are not the best

You’d hope with a reputation like ‘Blogger’ that Blogger would be a decent free service for running a blog. Fortunately, it is. Sign in with your Google ID, and you can have a blog up and working in seconds, which can then be customised with new themes.

It’s, however, a Google service, and so be a touch wary, given how abruptly that company sometimes shuts things down that millions of people were happily using.

04. Medium

Medium is a free blogging platform established by the founders of Twitter.

Medium is the brainchild of Twitter’s founders, and seems to be their attempt to do for ‘longreads’ what they once did for microblogging. The result’s a socially-oriented place that emphasises writing, although inside an extremely locked-down set-up.

It’s a place to blog if you want your words to be taken seriously, and in the event you favour a polished, streamlined experience. However for those who’re big on customisation and control, look elsewhere.

05. Svbtle

Svbtle is mostly used for longform writing and not fun to use in terms of customization.

Describing itself as a “blogging platform designed to help you think”, Svbtle is pretty just like Medium in strategy. It again strips every thing right back, resulting in a bold, stylish experience that pushes words to the fore. It may simply turn out to be your favourite blogging platform for the act of writing, but it again depends on you also wanting something very simple and not caring a jot about customisation.

06. LiveJournal

LiveJournal is a combination of a blog and social networks

One of the veterans of this list, LiveJournal (like Blogger) started life in 1999. Maybe due to its age, it rather blurs the lines (the site says “wilfully”) between blogging and social networking.

The result is more of a community that affords you your personal space, however that also very much encourages communal interaction. It is potential to fashion something more private, however to get the most out of LiveJournal, it is advisable be prepared to delve into discussion as much as writing.

07. Weebly

Weebly bills itself more as a website-creation system than something for solely making a blog. It is primarily based around drag-and-drop elements, which allow you to quickly create new pages.

Nevertheless, blogging is also part of the system, and also you get access to customisable layouts, a bunch of free themes, and the usual sharing options you’d expect, to spread your words far and wide.

08. Postach.io

Postach.io claims it is the “easiest way to blog”. It is from the people behind Evernote, and, naturally, is deeply integrated into their system.

Basically, you simply join a notebook to Postach.io and then tag notes as ‘published’ to make them public.

However, you get some customisation, too, together with a bunch of themes, the means to embed content from other websites, Disqus commenting, and the option to instead use Dropbox for storing content.

09. Pen.io

Pen.io is one of the only free blogging platforms you doesn’t require you to sign up and log in before you can use.

Pen.io’s approach can be slightly different from others. Unusually, it does not require a login — instead, you define a URL for a post and set a password.

Images can be dragged into place, and you may create multi-page posts using a tag. And that’s about it.

Really, it’s a stretch to call Pen.io a blog in the traditional sense, but it’s a good choice for banging out the odd sporadic post, especially if you don’t want any personal info saved.

10. Ghost

For our final entry, we are taking a different approach. Unlike the others on this list, Ghost is only free if you download and install it yourself and it’s entirely open source, and while writing you get a live preview of how your post will end up.

You need to be technically minded for this one, then, but it’s a worthy alternative to WordPress if you’re happy to get your hands dirty.