Your favorite blogging site !

Hi,

If a person wants to create a new free blog what site/service/platform will you recommend him? Also let me know why.

Thanks
Jackie

I guess, here none of you interested in blogging.

i use multiply.com or wordpress for my blogs

If you are looking free blog hosts, I will recommend you to use blogsome.com and the blogging platform they offer is wordpress. I prefer wordpress cuz its easy to use, supports trackbacks and pingbacks. ( may be you can google around to get a few more ). And the reason why I recommend blogsome is it lets you to play with your template and customize it according to your needs. Recently I came accross a blog at blogsome that even looks like a website rather than a blog!

I recently wrote one article on why blogspot will die soon. Can I put a link to the article at WMW (it is available under community building forum)?

The biggest factor is "no community involvement" for blogspot development. They think they can make the things perfect. "Community vs experts", I will always bet my money on community and thats wordpress. I myself had done some plugins for wordpress.

Blogspot is good for phase 1 of blogging as it is simple to start with but not good for second phase which needs advance integration with other products (some will be non-google). Blog is 75% about content and blogger but rest 25% can make some big change. 25% is about integration and promotion.
The problem with wordpress is that it was never accepted as a platform. I have already made the code open source where you can create multi blogs using wordpress as platform (one installation but multi blogs). If I have the permission I can put the link to the complete article.



For free blog hosts you can go for wordpress.com, blogsome.com, hedir.com and many more sites that run wordpress as platform. Ask following questions to the host

1) Why are you providing me a blog free? What will you get from it?
2) How will you help me with marketing?
3) What flexibility I have in editing my blog?

Thanks,
Aji

I would stick with wordpress, as it has a wide variety of free plugins all over the Internet.

Hi

Can Any one tell me why we create blogs and Are they helpfull in increasing rankings

First of all i would like to know what sort of blog, you are going to create. Is this
1) Personal or
2) Business Purpose.

I would recommend to go with wordpress, it has nice features and it's SE friendly too.

I use Blogger. It's simple and easy to use but the templates are pretty boring. Although you can get plenty of free templates off the net.

Wordpress is by far the best in my opinion at least among the big free ones.

you guys can also try blogs.byindia.com a web2.0 compliant free blog...

I have been using blogspot I like them a bit user interface is great and I was able to customise it to match my website.

if youre thinking about ranking well on msn use blogspot blog. MSN simply loves blogspot type blog.

If you're going to host it yourself, I'd say Wordpress because of all the cool plugins. If you're looking for a free blog host, then I'd go with Blogger because of the ranking boost it seems to give, especially in MSN.