Bloggers: The 5 top online blogging platforms

With the Internet and online information dominating our daily activities, it is the time for bloggers to shine! Articles and journals give online information a more powerful meaning, thus it is important for bloggers to have their own online space for many reasons.  

Firstly, the fact that you will have all of your thoughts written and saved on an online space, which can be visited by almost 3 billion Internet users, widening the range of readers that bloggers can have. Third is the fact that bloggers can have their online space for free using a blogging platform out of the many that already exist online.

This article explores the 10 top online blogging platforms for anyone that wants to create and maintain an online space for free!

1. WordPress
   Should you wish to build a blog using a platform that is used by 23% of the currently online websites, then WordPress is made for you.

WordPress websites are free of charge, with available plugins to include in your website that make it more powerful and add more customisation. Changing the look and feel of your personal blog is also doable and the most amazing thing is that it doesn’t require any programming knowledge to achieve a great result.

2. Tumblr

Tumblr is a platform designed clearly for blog reading and writing. It can be considered to be similar to twitter, as it provides the users the ability to ‘reblog’ a blog post of other bloggers.

With Tumblr’s mobile application available for both Android and iOS devices, Tumblr is now a very powerful blogging platform. Being able to write and post articles from anyplace using any of your available devices at any point of the day is important for bloggers that commute a lot, or undertake a lot of activities at places that a laptop or a PC is out of their reach.

3. Blogger

Signing up for Blogger can be completed with one click; by logging in with your Google credentials. Why is this? Blogger is a service that belongs to Google. It is a free blogging platform and one of the very first that ever existed on the online world.

Google has a dedicated team to Blogger, who are doing their best not only to maintain, but also improve the service.

4. Medium
   This blogging platform has been established by twitter, aiming to provide a way for people to blog. It is a very serious blogging platform with approximately 460,000 users.

On another note, if you prefer to have the ability to customise your personal blog, you should rather choose another blogging platform.

5. Svbtle

Svbtle says: “A blogging platform designed to help you think.”. And it is helping bloggers indeed. With Svbtle bloggers are able to see a list of blog post ideas, saving of drafts and a summary of all of your previous blog posts.

In terms of its appearance, it works the same way as Medium, with not much allowance for customisation. Should you wish to have more customisation, you would prefer to pick another blogging platform.