THE Best Places to Start a Blog 2016
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Typepad
Browse at Typepad.com
Founded October 2003:
Founder: Say Media
Total users: ?
Pros: Ease of use
Cons: Less costumization
Costs: Free
My verdict: Just love the news? If so, know that ABC, BBC, CBS, MSNBC and more use Typepad to maintain blogs.
Weebly platform
Weebly
Browse at Weebly.com
Founded: 2006
Founder: David Rusenko
Total users: hosts 15 million websites
Pros: Drag and drop feature so easy a monkey could use it.
Cons: Less control for the user
Costs: ?
My verdict: I’ve heard a lot of positive reviews here. For a company owner who needs a website but despises tech, it’s Weebly or Squarespace, and both are sound choices.
Drupal
Browse at Drupal.org
Recommended for: Blogging, Content Management, Web Applications
Founded: January 2001
Founder: Dries Buytaert
Total users: 1 million users and 30K developers
Pros: 22,900 free add-ons, free and premium themes via the Drupal Theme Garden
Cons: Quite involved, not ideal for beginners
Costs: ?
My verdict: Fun for developers and bloggers with a real interest in building code.
Squidoo
Browse at Squidoo.com
Founded: 2005
Founder: Seth Godin
Total users: 1.5 million
Pros: Lenses and points systems to level up are only part of the fun.
Cons: Like Hubpages, you might not feel an ownership of your work.
Costs: Free
My verdict: A classy place to meet others before you get more serious about blogging.
✩ ♨ New Releases ♨ ✩
Postach.io
Browse at Postach.io
Recommended for: On-the-go bloggers, note-taking
Founded: 2013
Founder: Evernote
Total users: 20,000
Pros: Supports popular comment plugin Disqus, lighter feel, easy to use.
Cons: Less costumization
Costs: Free
My verdict: Too soon to form a verdict here!
Facebook Notes
Browse at Facebook.com/notes
Recommended for: Social media integrated blogging
Founded: 2013
Founder: Facebook Developers
Total users: Well, 1.1 billion already on Facebook…
Pros: Simple to share images, links and quotes – useful if you’ve got a large, Facebook-centric audience already.
Cons: Limited design and that blue Facebook-y feel we all should just escape every now and then.
Costs: Free
My verdict: Not much different from a Facebook page – I predict this to be a feature Facebook tries, directs advertisers to, then slowly wanders away from.
Svbtle
Browse at Svbtle.com
Founded: 2013
Founder: Dustin Curtis
Total users: ?
Pros: New, different; aren’t we all?
Cons: Must apply for a membership and no commenting feature as of yet.
Costs: Free
My verdict: They are a “network of great people who want to make it easier for people to share and discover new ideas”. Excited to see where Svbtle goes in the next few months.
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Sett
Browse at Sett.com
Founded: Early 2013
Founder: Tynan (a blogger) and Todd Iceton
Total users: 1,000 – 10,000
Pros: Generally bent on community, top navigation bar like Blogger, has a word-matching system that matches similar posts and will recommend users to your posts the moment they sign-up, private discussions, one click subscription system
Cons: Premium service that allows for more image hosting (does this mean normal users are limited?)
Costs: Free with premium service offered
My verdict: I’ve always believed it’s the readers who really grow a blog, not so much the blogger him/herself. 80/20. So I’m excited here. Will they win the battle for 3rd place? Either way, the web is always better with more variety, more options, more places to blog.
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Ghost
Browse at Ghost.org
Founded: Early 2013
Founder: Ghost Foundation
Total users: 10,000 – 50,000
Pros: Open-source so once you download it you own it, organized at run by volunteers and non-profits
Cons: Any service that charges based on the amount of views you get is a villain in my book or could become one. Don’t limit us, thanks.
Costs: Free with premium service offered
My verdict: Got to respect their lofty ideas. But, I suspect they are trying to KO WordPress and possibly backed by BlueHost based on their web design, so I oppose :)
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Posthaven
Browse as Posthaven.com
Founded: Early 2013
Founder: Ghost Foundation
Total users: 10,000 – 50,000
Pros: Post by email. Oh and “they’ll never get acquired, never shut down” as long as you pay them.
Cons: “Simple, easy blogs for $5 a month, forever.”
Costs: 5 bucks
My verdict: They’re a group of engineers who want to build blogs for us. Love this idea and wish them the best. But as a company you just can’t get ahead in an open environment like blogging by trying to control things, at least not upfront. Their technology might be great and “durable” but most of us will never know, because their marketing is a zero and their homepage design is really weak.
Posterous
Browse at Posterous.com
Unfortunately this site has been deprecated, or slowly removed with no further updates.
✩ ♨ Almost Extinct ♨ ✩
Blog.com
Browse at Blog.com
Recommended for: Blogging
Founded: 2004
Founders: ?
Total users: 2 million
Pros: Free themes, multi-author blogging, social media widgets, video
Cons: Less customization
Premium features: Your own domain name, advertising network
Costs: ?
My verdict: You’d hope a domain name as strong as blog.com would produce a winner…
Zoomshare
Browse at ZoomShare.com
Founded: ?
Founder: ?
Total users: < 50K
Pros: Still has a community
Cons: Shifting 100% of users to paid version
Costs: “As of May 22, 2013 our free website service has been discontinued. If you would like to convert to the paid service click here and upgrade for the low cost of $6.95 a month.”
My verdict: Not enough information to form a verdict.
Xanga
Browse at Xanga.com
Founded: ?
Founder: ?
Total users: < 50K
Pros: Resembles WordPress
Cons: Unclear timeframe of new software releases
Costs: ?
My verdict: Not enough information to form a verdict.
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