Here is this new and fresh list of Top 20 best and popular Free Blog websites as (free and paid ) blogging platforms for 2012. Almost every beginner or novice blogger needs free blog writing platform where she/he can get free blog hosting,free (sub) domain name and blog designing platform based on WYSIWYG blog designing platform. The free and paid blogging platforms list includes the best 20 blogging platforms for 2012. some blogging platforms such as Wordpress and Blogger are very common and popular names among all the top blogging websites.All the blogging platforms mentioned in this top 20 list are world's best blogging platforms for free blogging and some of them are exclusively available only for paid members (like tumblr ). Even if you are novice blogger, you can kick start your blog writing after free registering with any of these free blogging platforms.
Most of the bloggers initially use any of these blogging platform for creating their blog posts. Later on when their blogging writing skills have evolved and when they have got good enough blogging techniques-they start their own blog website through self hosted, self owned blog domain names, and with a professional looking premium blog templates(external).Though,roughly world's more than 60% blog posts are being created using all these best 20 free blogging platforms websites !
All the best free blogging platforms listed here are very popular among most of the novice and intermediate level bloggers , in terms of user base mainly in the following countries : - US, UK, India, Germany, Japan, France,Canada, Brazil,Australia, South Africa and some Asian Countries !
So, read through the below given list of top 20 best free blog sites and start writing your own blog today, if you haven't started yet!
Wordpress is the grand master of all the free blogging websites. It offers free as well as paid blogging services to millions of bloggers around the world. Wordpress.org is a world renowned free CMS provider (content management system).Free Wordpress blogs are also popular due to their SEO and user friendliness. Free WordPress is truly a pioneer free blogging platform and has the biggest online community of bloggers!
#2 Blogger
Blogger is a free,cool,and versatile free blogging platform and its owned by none other than search engine giant Google itself ! Blogger has got all the features a blogger may desire.Above all your Blogger blog posts get lots of SERP love from Google.Though it offers you free subdomain and blog hosting, but you can opt for your own custom domain which could be as low as $10 per year.
#3 Tumblr
Tumblr is The most simple and is an easiest micro blogging platform.Takes only 1 minute for free signup and you can instantly start blogging on Tumblr. Tumblr is meant for smart,cool,easy, and ' images are more appealing than the texts' styled blogging. Its different from other classic blogging platforms in many aspects. Mainly Tumblr is a microblogging website similar to Tweeter and Facebook. Tumblr is hosting 58 Million Blogs and 24 billion blog posts!
#4 Movable Type
Movable Type is an open source as well as commercial CMS provider on an individual as well as industrial basis.Owned by renowned company Six Apart, Movable Type offers free blogging services, but mainly its popular for its commercial use by big industries on multiple scale.It can handle multiple blogs in a single account and provides effective ways to make combined changes on multiple blogs. Movable Type is popular mostly among expert,professional bloggers.
#5 Express Engine
Like Wordpress(WP), Joomla, and Drupal, Express Engine(EE) is also a CMS. Express Engine is also available in free version, but mostly its a commercial blogging platform used by developers and expert bloggers. EE is used to operate multiple blog sites through a single account and its widely used by companies and organisations. Expression Engine is not recommended for novice bloggers.Whatsoever, EE is among the best 5 blogging platforms.
#6 Joomla !
Joomla is an open source content management system for online content creation and publishing. Joomla is an award winning free CMS which is vastly used by developers and expert bloggers for sophisticated online content publication.
#7 Posterous
Posterous is similar to tumblr and is very popular among micro bloggers. Posterous is owned by micro blogging leader Tweeter! Posterous is famous for online sharing and mobile blogging. Posterous is a free and cool blogging platform.
#8 Drupal
Drupal was started in 2001 and since then has been very popular among bloggers and developers due to its impressively strong CMS features. Drupal is an open source CMS using PHP language and is absolutely free to use and develop its CMS.
#9 LifeType
Life Type is also an open source CMS backed by PHP and MySQL. Life Type offers multi-user and multiple blogs support through its CMS. Life Type is mainly used to handle multiple blogs on a single account.
Friendster is a social blogging,networking,and gaming site. Friendster has around 110 million users and its mainly popular in Asian countries. Its a community based blogging platform and your blogposts are shared among its own community.
#11 Penzu
Penzu is not a blogging platform in tradition sense as we find in Wordpress,Blogger,etc. Penzu is used more like a online personal blog diary. Penzu is very simple and sober blog creation platform.
#12 Blog.Com
Blog.com offers a free,paid, and really nice blogging services to its bloggers. You can create advanced and sophisticated looking professional blogs easily on Blog.com blogging platform.
Below are some more free blogging platforms which are commonly used as free online blog creation.
#13 GetSimple
#14 LifeJournal
#15 Multiply
#16 Textpattern
#17 SquareSpace
#18 Symphony-Cms
#19 WolfCms
#20 Zotonic
