So, if you have clicked to read about this blog, you have decided to write a blog and want to know how you can choose the best blog writing platforms.

Based on our experience, we will try our best to help you find the best blogging platform.

When we start blogging, finding the best and most reliable blogging platform amongst all in the market is essential.

There are many blogging platforms available in the market; to choose one, we need to first understand our goal and requirements.

What to Consider while Selecting the Best Blogging Platform?

Your Technical skills:

If you have good knowledge of coding, your choice of selecting can be different from the one who does not know about coding or if they are a beginner in this field.

So, you need to check your skill level first, and you can opt for that.

Easy to Learn:

It should be easy for the user to work on and learn about the blogging platform.

Budget:

Budget plays an important role always in any situation.

What you want is different, and do you have funds for that is different.

If you may need something but don’t have the funds to purchase it, it’s a waste to choose it. So first, check your budget and start finding a good blogging platform based on your budget.

Requirements/Goals/Nature of Blog:

The nature of your blog also plays a role in the selection of the blogging platform. So, first, you need to analyze how your blog will be.

That is if your blog is going to be casual blogging or personal blogging.

Is it going to be professional blogging, or it’s going to involve lots of photos to explain your content?

Based on your blogging requirements, you can select the best blogging platform.

Monetization possibilities:

Nowadays, blogging is not only a hobby, but people are also blogging and earning money from the same.

You might initially not be interested in earning money from Blog (which is a rare chance!!), but who knows what the future holds.

So, after getting your blogs and website popular, you want to monetize it, and your blogging platform should support you.

So, check monetization possibilities also while selecting a blogging platform.

Mobile Friendly:

It will be a plus point if your blogging platform allows you to work via mobile.

As it is helpful if you are traveling, you can easily update or write your blog via mobile.

I am not saying we all prefer to do that, but if we have this option available, we can at least do these tasks via mobile, i.e., updating in blog, replying to comments, and uploading pictures in your blog post.

Search Engine Optimization:

We need to ensure that the blogging platform should support search engines.

It will be useless if we do not have traffic on our website or blog.

If our blogging platform is not search engine friendly, it won’t be easy to showcase our blog in front of a vast audience.

So, while selecting a blogging platform, always select which is search engine friendly, which will help to get traffic.

Here is the list of some of the blogging platforms we found when we started our site and found helpful based on our requirements and needs.

1. WordPress.org
2. WordPress.com
3. Wix
4. Square space
5. Medium

Popular Blogging Platforms

Let’s check one by one best platform for blogging.

WordPress.org

WordPress is one of the popular blogging platforms. More than 40% of the sites you see on the internet use WordPress programs.

It is one of the most used free blogging content management platforms worldwide.

The platform is free at wordpress.org, and you can easily download it.

Along with this WorpPress.org software, you would be required a hosting plan to host your website on the internet.

Nowadays, most hosting provider provides free WordPress as CMS (Content Management System).

You can refer to our blog to select the best hosting plan.

You can host yourself. You can choose your hosting plan and completely control your site. In other words, you can say you own your website.

It’s also mobile-friendly; it gives you access to your blog via mobile. You can post, reply to your comments, and upload an image to your blog post.

It provides frequent updates to help the user with the updated features. It’s open-source software.

This platform is so friendly and easy to use that anyone can start blogging.

In .org, you can customize your blog and theme options, which helps you with customization.

Here you can also create your ads or add them for free.

Also, you can refer to our blog to learn the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com

WordPress.com

WordPress provides two platforms, so the second one is wordpress.com.

WordPress.com has free and paid both plans.

You have to buy one plan and you would get most of the required things in that, like Hosting, Domain name, WordPress software, etc.

It helps you to understand the WordPress platform easily. It is the most accessible blog platform.

You don’t need to pay anything for the domain name for 1 year.

Initially, we were unaware of how to choose domain name and what to select.

It’s excellent that wordpress.com help you with a domain free in paid plan.

You also get a free domain name like yourDomainName.wordpress.com in the free plan.

Later, whenever you want, you can change it to your custom domain name like yourdomainname.com by paying some amount.

It is best for you to be a non-technical person, as you get no technical control here. Everything is with WordPress, and they provide you with all the required features.

Now you will say it’s confusing; you are not the only one getting confused here.

As the same provider is giving you two options, it is obvious to get confused.

But don’t worry, to find out the difference between the two in detail, go and check out our blog “WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org (Differences and which is better for your website).“

Pricing Details for WordPress.com

WordPress.com offers free and paid plans.

The free plan has very limited features.

You can check Plan & Price as per your need.

Wix

Wix is very easy for new bloggers. It helps users to create their websites through its easy drag-and-drop design interface.

Wix helps you create your website using their Wix ADI (Artificial Design Intelligence).

You will find it helpful if you are a non-coder, as Wix includes no code but still gives you an output as a professional website.

Wix is a template-driven platform.

It would help if you answered some of the questions in Wix ADI, and it will design your website.

But if you want to design your website on your own, Wix ADI will help you with the best-suited layout for choice based on the answers you have submitted related to your blog type, etc.

If you are a person who travels a lot and is more available on your mobile, then it will be great to know that Wix also provides a mobile application from where you can do all the tasks.

Free Wix provides some features with limitations.

You may get ads in the free version, so if you want to remove ads, you need to upgrade your plan from the free plan.

Wix Pricing

Wix provides many plans as per your need.

Before buying, check all the plans as per your requirement.

As per our experience, we can say WordPress is a step ahead. As WordPress can help you to grow as much as required.

There are a few drawbacks to Wix:

1. If you want to switch the platform in the future, you have to do it manually, i.e., you have started a fresh to use a new platform. Wix doesn’t allow you to do the transfer.
2. It is difficult to change the template you choose later. If you want to change the template, you have to start again.

SquareSpace

Squarespace is also one of the easy-to-use platforms.

This template-driven platform; is famous for its template looks, which help create a good-looking website without any struggle.

There is no need to hire any developer to create a website.

Square space provides you with enough features that if you are not a pro at developing or designing, you can create an attractive website.

But don’t worry, if you are wondering if you get stuck anywhere without a developer, how will you fix the issue?

Square space provides 24×7 customer service, which helps you anytime with your problems. So you don’t need to worry about that.

Square space is a site-building platform and a blogging unit from which you can post an attractive blog for your audiences.

You can also say that square space hold features between Wix and WordPress. It allows you to customize your site more than Wix but less than WordPress.

This platform can be more beneficial for photographers, and artists, as if you upload a high-quality picture in a square space, it gives an excellent output.

In the Square space editor, you don’t need to check the preview whenever you make any design amendments. Whatever you see in your editor window is the final output. So it is more friendly and easy to work on this platform.

Squarespace Plan &Pricing

It provides many plans as per your need.

Medium Writing Platform

Medium is the best platform if your interest is mainly in writing and gets read by people.

If your interest is more towards writing and reading than monetization, you will find the medium platform very interesting.

This platform was launched in 2012. It doesn’t give much importance to look and feel like other platforms do, but it gives you good traffic of genuine bloggers and readers on their platform.

Medium provides a minimum number of customizations or Templates.

Here you will see different bloggers and different niches available on the platform. So you can write about literally anything.

You can write about daily updates, News headlines, reviews of the product, book, or anything that comes to your mind; you can start writing here.

You may not earn money as other platforms help you, but you may still earn good traffic if readers spend time on your blog.

Here you don’t have to get worried about hosting, designing your website, and maintenance of your site; you need to start writing.

You can reshare your content on Medium and get traffic to your sites.

As said above, the medium consists of a good amount of audience interested in reading. So here, you can get a targeted audience quickly.

Conclusion

Why WordPress.org (Great Blog Writing platforms)

In a one-line, we can say, WordPress.org is a very flexible, powerful & user-friendly platform.

It depends on your requirement, but as per our experience without any doubt, we highly recommend WordPress.org.

We started using WordPress.org for MSSARO blogging and never looked back.

WordPress.org has a lot of free and paid plug-ins (new functionalities) and themes (look and feel) which would surely help you in the future.

It helped all the way; it has given us the liberty to extend our limits promptly.

As a beginner, we have limited ideas, but after getting more and more experience in this field, your platform must give you all the access to extend in the future if you want to. And WordPress.org does the same.

Why Wix /Squarespace / Medium

Wix is also a good option if you don’t want to go with WordPress.

Yes, it gives you a beautiful presentation of your blog. So if you want to launch an eye-pleasing blog, you can go for Wix, which gives you good layout options.

If your blog is more into Branding and photography, you can go for Squarespace, as it gives excellent output where photographs are used. And you can use high-quality images/photos also here for the presentation.

Suppose you have more interest in writing and want a good audience to read your blog. Medium is the right platform for you.

Medium can give you a target audience to get read. You can quickly get a good amount of traffic here with minimum effort.

So think about your requirements and start by choosing the best platform for your website.

If you want to know about some more platforms, write us in the comment section, and we will try to come back with more blogging platforms for you.

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