If you are think­ing about set­ting up a blog to help you make money then you’re prob­a­bly ask­ing which blog­ging plat­form is best to start your money mak­ing blog with. To keep your start up costs low I rec­om­mend you con­sider the three most pop­u­lar free plat­forms, Blog­ger, Word­Press and Live Jour­nal.

Not all blog­ging sites are good for adver­tise­ments, so you’ll want to check each one out. Here’s a short com­par­i­son of the three sites listed here to help you choose what’s best for you and your niche:

Blog­ger — This is usu­ally the choice for begin­ners because it’s the eas­i­est one of the three to set up. Sim­ply sign up for an account and they take you step by step through the process of get­ting a blog started.

Blog­ger is affil­i­ated with Google, so even sign­ing up for the AdSense ads is extremely easy to do. They walk you through that as well. They don’t have as many blog tem­plates to choose from as the oth­ers do, but this site is def­i­nitely rec­om­mended for those with no blog­ging expe­ri­ence who want to get launched with­out hassle.

Word­Press — This site is a lit­tle more com­pli­cated to start a blog with. They still walk you through the set­ting up process, but there’s a lit­tle more to their set up than with Blog­ger. Word­Press allows you to export their blogs to your domain, so mar­keters who’ve blogged a lit­tle while can move their blogs when they’re com­fort­able doing so.

Word­Press offers plenty of dif­fer­ent blog tem­plates to choose from and many peo­ple cre­ate free tem­plates you can down­load as long as the bot­tom of the blog gives them credit. This is per­fect because when you’re pro­mot­ing to a niche audi­ence, the theme can set the tone and author­ity of the site for the reader.

Live­Jour­nal — This is an excel­lent community-driven blog­ging site. It offers a free account to blog with as well as a paid account option. Unfor­tu­nately, you have to upgrade to a paid account to use most of its features.

Ads are a paid account ben­e­fit, so this option isn’t the best choice for mak­ing money from ads with lit­tle to no start-up cost. Adver­tis­ers can pay you to place ads on your blog if you have a paid account.

The free account is good for use as a net­work­ing tool to get oth­ers to visit your blog on another site where you could make money. Con­sider it a “feeder blog” that fun­nels read­ers through to another destination.

There are many other blog­ging sites out there to choose from, but most offer paid accounts to uti­lize the best ser­vices they have. Going with a free account now is the best option when you want to keep costs low and earn­ing poten­tial high.

You can always upgrade later on and get a paid account with one of the other sites. Be sure to research those sites to deter­mine which one offers what you need. Whether you’re a new­bie start­ing out or an inter­me­di­ate to advanced blog­ger, these sites give you the best oppor­tu­ni­ties for bring­ing in income on the ‘net.

If you are look­ing for my per­sonal choice, well it has to be Word­Press, I’m com­fort­able with it’s ease of use and ver­sa­til­ity, it’s per­fect for all types of uses, busi­ness, port­fo­lios, clas­si­fieds, direc­to­ries and because of it’s large fol­low­ing has an amaz­ing amount of free and paid themes that you can cus­tomise. But as I said before Word­Press is a lit­tle more com­pli­cated than Blog­ger or Live Jour­nal to setup, how­ever once you have passed the setup process it’s un beat­able. Go with what you feel com­fort­able with.

If you require help with set­ting up your first Word­Press site con­tact me.

Kind Regards
Micheal

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