The Basics of Blogging – What Tools Are Best For You?

With internet marketing on the rise in the 20^th century, online exposure is at its peak and the interest in blogging is well on the rise.  Blogs have become a very popular web-publishing tool for all types of people; firms, businesses, teenagers, affiliate marketers and huge corporations.  The reason why?  It’s an easy way for anyone to reach a worldwide audience; that’s why.  But if you’re new to blogging and don’t know where to start, how do you know what tools to use?  Here are a couple tips to help you with the basics of blogging.

Selecting the right blogging platform depends on what you’re looking for and your technical experience.  There are two basic types of platforms; free blogs, or self-hosted blogs.

Free blogs are providers like, Blogger.com, Livejournal.com and Tumblr.com.  These types of blogging platforms are relatively easy to use, can be customized to some degree and some even come with handy little widgets for added features.  And though some might disagree, they can be promoted just as good as any other blog out there!  However, as I mentioned before, they can be customized to some degree and the reason I bring this up again is because if you’re looking to brand yourself, then this type of blog may not be for you.

Self-hosted blogs are platforms such as, Movabletype.org, Drupal.org and of course my favorite, Wordpress.org!  These types of blogs are best suited for those who have some knowledge of how to set up and host their own site.  They are also customizable to a serious degree!  Like take Wordpress for example.  It has so many plugins and features that are available, not only from Wordpress themselves, but also many third party plugins that can be added to your blog to help give you the features you may require.  What I like about Wordpress the most is that you can even come up with an idea for a plugin and have someone code it for you, or customize your blog through online service providers like Elance.com, or Odesk.com.  There are literally thousands of plugins that will help you along your way, even ones that can fully automate your blog and make it a self-promoting online money machine!  I absolutely love Wordpress!

So this wraps up our post about the basic of blogging, please don’t forget to leave your comments and share the link to my blog if you found it useful.  Also feel free to leave any questions you may have.