10 BEST FREE BLOGGING PLATFORMS

    

    Want to showcase your writing talent to the world or is there a hidden writer in you and you can't find any platform to showcase your talent then Blogging can be the best option for you. If you know blogging or new to blogging then this post will help you because we created a list of free blogging platform you can use if you are a newbie.

What is blogging platform?

A blogging platform is a service or application that facilitates the creation of web pages for publishing your content. These content management systems come in the form of website builders like Wix, blogging applications like Wordpress, or simplified blogging software like Tumblr.

In this round-up, we explore the best blogging platforms for newcomers who want to get a free blog up and running.

So let's get started

01. WordPress
WordPress is the most popular and widely used blogging platform. The name says all about it its a little press where you can write your thoughts and publish to the world and let people write your thoughts.

It's easy to see why: on WordPress.com, you can rapidly create a new blog entirely for free, with a reasonable amount of customization. Alternatively, most web hosts provide WordPress as a free single-click install, and more information on what's possible there can be found at WordPress.org.

The design and templates on WordPress are good and tempting you can select the design according to your need.

02. WIX
It allows users to create HTML5 websites and mobile sites through the use of online drag and drop tools. Users may add functionality such as social plug-ins, e-commerce, online marketing, contact forms, e-mail marketing, and community forums to their websites using a variety of Wix-developed and third-party applications.

03. YOLA
People without programming and graphic design skills can make websites using Yola. Its drag and drop system allows users to incorporate widgets without knowing HTML. Yola also integrates e-commerce and blog software and acts as a domain registrar. It competes with other web hosting and creation such as Wix, Weebly, Jimdo, and Webs.

Yola offers different service levels: Free, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Premier. The free subscription includes one, three-page site, a download capacity of 1 GB, and basic web builder tools. Yola Bronze costs $49.95 a year and includes 2GB of storage, a custom domain with private registration as well as unlimited pages and bandwidth.

04. EDUBLOGS
An edublogs is a blog created for educational purposes. Edublogs archive and support student and teacher learning by facilitating reflection, questioning by self and others, collaboration and by providing contexts for engaging in higher-order thinking.

05. HUBPAGES
HubPages is a user-generated content, a revenue-sharing website founded in 2006. The company acquired its main competitor, Squidoo, in 2014 and moved from a single-site to a multi-site business model in 2016. Members ("Hubbers") post informational articles ("Hubs"). Anyone may contribute Hubs but to earn income, members must hold a valid Adsense account. This can be applied for using a portfolio of 10 to 15 Hubs after the first month of membership. Once the Adsense account is approved, members can sign up for a range of other earnings programs.

06. CONTENTFUL
Contentful provides a way to separate your content from your design. It calls this an "API-first" approach, so your content is stored on its servers and you can call it into any design or platform as you like. So if you want to build a completely different site in a few years time, it's easy to bring everything in as it's set up to be portable from the start.

07.JEKYLL
Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator for personal, project, or organization site. Jekyll is flexible and can be used in combination with front-end frameworks such as Bootstrap, Semantic UI, and many others.
Jekyll sites can be connected to cloud-based CMS software such as CloudCannon, Forestry, Notify or Siteleaf, enabling content editors to modify site content without having to know how to code.

08. TUMBLR
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007 and owned by Oath Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs. Bloggers can also make their blogs private. For bloggers, many of the website's features are accessed from a "dashboard" interface. Tumblr also has a strong social undercurrent, via the following model combined with notes and favorites. 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 delve too deep into who's 'favoriting' their posts.

09. BLOGGER
Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. The blogs are hosted by Google and generally accessed from a subdomain of blogspot.com. A user can have up to 100 blogs per account. Blogger allows its users to choose from various templates and then customize them. Users may also choose to create their own templates using CSS. The new design template, known as"Dynamic View".

10. MEDIUM
Medium is an online publishing platform developed by Evan Williams and launched in August 2012. It is owned by A Medium Corporation. The platform is an example of social journalism, having a hybrid collection of amateur and professional people and publications, or exclusive blogs or publishers on Medium, And is regularly regarded as a blog host. The platform software provides a full WYSIWYG user interface when editing online, with various options for formatting provided as the user edits over rich text format. So head over to your computer or mobile choose your blogging platform and woke up the writer in you.

So head over to your computer or mobile choose your blogging platform and woke up the writer in you.

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