Blogging is growing day by day and there are many platforms which allow people to blog without spending a penny. If you are passionate about blogging and want to start a blog for no charges, this post will help choose from the top free blog service providers.
I myself started on blogspot and after years of learning and experimenting I started this blog on WordPress. Although my personal choice will always remain WordPress but for blogging enthusiasts the options are many. You can play around with each and in time you will be sure what to use and what you should not.
I hope this post will make few more people interested in blogging.
1. Livejournal
LiveJournal (LJ) is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the free and open source server software that was designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community. LiveJournal’s blogging features include those found in similar blogging sites (multiple authors, commenting, calendars, and polls). However, LiveJournal differentiates itself from other blogging sites by its WELL-like features of a self-contained community and some social networking features similar to other social networking sites.
Blogetery
Blogetery.com offers free blog hosting powered by latest WordPress version. You can easily publish text, podcasts, pictures, media files and more with just a single mouse click.
Blogsome
t’s easy, choose any kind of WordPress theme, upload photos, personalize your design and start blogging right now. You can also browse samples of the latest posts and blogs. The blogsome.com also offers forums where you can search for any type of answers, read important documentation in relation of the service and terms of use, and you must ask really smart questions so to become part of this community. What the blogsome website intends is to offer a clean service, so when users are found to be using stolen content from other websites as a means of generating traffic, they immediately remove this blogs and cease service.
Edublogs
The World’s most popular education blogging service… Edublogs lets you easily create & manage student & teacher blogs, quickly customize designs and include videos, photos & podcasts – it’s safe, easy and secure
WordPress
WordPress.com is a weblog hosting provider owned by Automattic which opened to beta testers on August 8, 2005 and opened to the public on November 21, 2005. It is powered by the open source WordPress software. It is financially supported via paid upgrades, “VIP” services and limited Google Adsense advertising.
Blog
Blog.com provides a fully-featured publishing platform for free. Blog by yourself or establish a writing community, all under an address that looks like: you.blog.com. It also offers free blog hosting with unlimited bandwidth for their free package, more benefits for paid members.
Blogger
Blogger is a blog publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at subdomains of blogspot.com. Up until May 1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via ftp.
Tumblr
Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users can follow other users, or choose to make their tumblelog private. The service emphasizes ease of use.
Yahoo Pulse – now closed
Yahoo! 360° was a social networking and personal communication portal operated by Yahoo! made available in 2005. It enabled users to create personal web sites, share photos from Yahoo! Photos, maintain blogs and lists, create and share a public profile and see which friends are currently online. 360° also featured a ‘friends updates’ section, under which each friend’s latest update was summarized (e.g. blog posts, updated lists or newly shared photos).
Weebly
Weebly started in 2006 has been providing very extensive well managed solutions for newbie’s. To create a blog website in Weebly you can simple log on with your facebook account as well. With 100′s of professional designed templates and superb website building experience, we have kept this great site in our list.
Typepad
TypePad is a blogging service from company Six Apart Ltd. Originally launched in October 2003, TypePad is based on Six Apart’s Movable Type platform, and shares technology with Movable Type such as templates and APIs, but is marketed to non-technical users and includes additional features like multiple author support, photo albums and moblogging.
I am sure their are many more platforms which can be in his list but for now I have choosen these over some others. Let us know if you have a replacement or better blog creating service that you have used.
Till now I am using Blogger, wordpress, Livejournal and Tumblr. Out of these all platform blogger is most user friendly and most customizable. All other platform takes too much time to crawled by search engine.
Nice list! DUGG and will FB this!
My favorite is still WordPress.com, and follow by Blogger.com. Of course it would be better if it’s a self hosted WordPress blog.
Thanks for the info. Very useful!
and what about http://www.posterous.com/
a great platform to blog easily form your mail application, or from a imple bookmarklet.
AWESOME!!! and FREE too!
please update the list, it is serious reference, that must be tested in hurry!
I’ve tried the blogger and the end was not how to handle it. I moved to wordpress recently and is a wonder to handle. But I have very castrated and have to pay if you want to work with css or other things. However if you have a domain with php, if you can download the wordpress and install it on your domain server. And here you have many more capabilities and a lot of issues better facts.
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Tumblr is by far my favorite, I adore blogger but there are some severe customization issues (sitemap).
Nice cleolction! I will definitely look into a few of them. And you are completely right: WordPress is a must.
Hey!! It’s exactly what I was looking for
) Great list!
I would have to say that WordPress is about the easiest to setup and host. After it’s setup you have so many options to change the look and feel and with so many add-ons you can hardly go wrong. Plus, if you host with HostGator or many others for that matter you can have it setup in basically 1 click. I give WordPress my thumbs up!
I Like WordPress…..
Yahoo pulse is ending by the way. They do not support blogs anymore.
I have tried tumbler. That is quite nice also!
I have installed wordpress on my site and love it to bits. Easy to use and has wonderful themes. Lots of paid and even more free. Check it out.
i like my website and i like my persional websites and my face book websie
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Accessing useful infromation through the internet is sometimes very time consuming and difficult but case here is different, found what I was looking for through the google.Thanks for providing such site.
I hav been usin blogger since past 2 years.its not dat great experience.u hav very limited choice of customisations and its not easy 2 manage.lets c wat wordpress and tumblr hav.
itz hard to navigate
I Like blogger & WordPress…..
wow, till now i had thought that wordpress is no. 1 and then comes blogger. but it seems that even more powerful tools are also there. well i think you are using wordpress, isn’t it?
i want to know how to implement blog in my website using php
WordPress without any doubt, you’ll find it behind many free blog platforms anyway.
I used it for my website, just have a look
good list. thank you!
Nice to see Blogger on the list. I’ve been using it for quite some time now because of its good interface and it allows users to incorporate a lot of things.
I have been using Blogger for a few years and have struggled with people having difficulty leaving responses. VERY glitchy. They recently made a big change to their format and I have had it…..moving somewhere…
WordPress and Blogger are best.
Typepad is not free anymore you need to pay monthly fees from now on!
Pretty old topic but wordpress is now pay for everything. I tried to create a blog and i have to pay to change the fonts. no thank you.
WordPress and Blogger are my favorite free blogs Stick with them for 4 years and got no problem so far Maybe I will give Typepad a try
Blogger is my favorite blogger till now but recently i have used floost. It is also a good blogging site with lots of features.
the most blogs i see are made in wordpress or blogger…
yeah nice article
I use this platforms day by day,and are really easy to use to post your articles online and promote your sites
Twitter isn’t just a place to come to talk about your mom: it’s also a place to come to talk to your mom. Families use Twitter to keep in touch, and share their affection.
When actor Neil Patrick Harris posted a picture of his new twins, a very proud mother and grandmother quickly replied:
For me the top 3 are Blogger , wordpress and blogsome.
Actually im trying blogadoo seems also nice at first.Will test it out.
Hey Jaspal,
I was wondering on a similar note,, I don’t really have anything interested to talk about myself, so I was thinking of making a blog with links to other websites. I know they don’t want you putting copywrited material on your blog, but are you allowed to put links to copywrited material on other websites? For instance, could I make a blog page with a link to Yahoo Answers? Or would I have to get permission from Yahoo to do that?
Keep up the good work
Hi Jaspal,
Really good article.I like this concept.Thanks for the post.Keep it up.
I am looking for a Free Blog site that enable posting and linking banners of affiliate business sites. Blogger has not anymore, except the old developed blogs.
blogurp.com is a free blog site and you can do that there. It’s my site and I just finished building it.
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Really Blogs List Thanks for post…..!!
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WordPress and Blogger are my favorite free blogs
Stick with them for 4 years and got no problem so far 
Maybe I will give Typepad a try 
It is in reality a great and useful piece of information. I am satisfied that you shared this helpful information with us. Please stay us up to date like this. Thanks for sharing.
Some blogs are not valuable any longer, I can’t create them such as blogsome, edublog…
just want a place where I can put my feelings out there in a blog? Not like facebook where my personal friends are reading it, personal things I feel, any suggestions?
I like the white space on your blog; very elegant and informative and neat at the same time! Thanks for sharing this interesting list.
This post is very informative! I like these collections and I will try other sites next time. I already used Blogger and WordPress.Thanks for sharing
I’m pleased with WordPress.com
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Informative. Some are new for me. Best is wordpress in my knowledge. Google index wordpress very quickly.
hi mostly i use word press an blogger. i want to say thanks to you because i was bore to using it now i will sites which you suggest me.
thanks & regards
waiting for new tips
Hi,
You always provide me helpful content which motivates me to read your blogs again and again.
I did go through your article & it was very informative I must say
WordPress and Blogger are my favorite free blogs
Blogger is best, than WordPress,,,,,, others is so so……. As i think
Blog.com has been my favorite for years after easyjournal closed down unexpectedly and I lost 5 years of blogs without warning. Now Blog.com has become increasingly unreliable in recent months. At times the website will be unaccessable, or give a lot of errors when trying to post your entry. Now the website has been unaccessable for over a week and I can’t even go in and retrieve my blogs for peace of mind in case this website dumps like easyjournal did. Be careful with this one!
i love blogger
Information are great, i am exited to know this and contents are intresting .Thanks and keep blogging.
i want to know how to implement blog and its functionality in my website using php