Blogging Platforms

  Top 10 Blogging sites      

       Blogging is getting popular day by day.There are a lot of Blog Hosting Sites over the internet. Some of these sites are free to use while others aren't. For a beginner, it is very hard to decide which service to use. Here i have gathered Top10  blogging sites, along with their some info... SO LETS START...

1.Word Press.org            

WordPress Users produce about 42.6 million new posts each month. Over 409 million people view more than 14.4 billion pages each month.

• Founded in May 2013
• Total users are 60 million
• You need to get a domain name and web hosting first.

2.WordPress.com

Free blog hosting site.You can get a domain name like "truefoxarticles.wordpress.com" or you can buy your own domain name.

• Founded in November, 2005
• Total blogs 56 million
• Easy to use but less customization 

3.Blogger

Pros: Its completely FREE, and easy to use.
Cons: Variety of Templates are not available.Mostly simple are available.

• Founded in 1999
• Bought by Google in 2003
• You can buy your own domain name too $10 per year e.g www.abc.com 

4.Tumblr: 

Tumblr is a micro blogging platform. 

• Tumblr hosts over 192.9 million blogs.
• Founded in 2007
• Bought by Yahoo
• Easy to use but less professional.

5.Weebly

• Founded in 2006
• Hosts 15 million websites
• Very easy to use
• Less user control 

6.Square space

Good for business owners who want to get on web.Recommended for individual, business owners and websites.

• Founded in 2004
•  founder:Anthony Casalena
• Elegant design.
• You have to pay for a few features.

7.Hubpages

It started as an article network.Good for social networking.

• Founded in 2006
• 74,000 total users
• Free to use and nice place to start writing.
• Less ownership of your work

8.Medium

• Founded in 2012
• Founder Evan Williams and Biz stone.
• Total users?

9.Livejournal

Good for writing a diary, blogging and journaling. 

• Fonded in 1999
• Total users: 39 million accounts
• Founder: Brad Fitzpatrick

10.Svbtle

• Founded in 2013
• Founder Dustin Curtis
• Its new and different
• But no commenting feature in it yet

       Hope you like the list.I haven't given much information about some blogging platforms because i don't much about those and I use and recommend Blogger for newbies.Its easy to use, although its templates are a bit childish but there are many free templates out there online which you can download and use it in blogger.