Blogging has become extremely popular whether it's for-profit or for personal use, many people blog. To blog, you need to have a good blogging platform to be successful. Here are the best blogging platforms and why:

Blogger

Blogger is an old school blogging platform that is currently operated by Google. It's free and very easy to use with an existing Google account. Your blog can also be integrated with Google AdSense so you can easily monetize your blog. The downfall is that bloggers can be simplistic and it's difficult to transition to a different blogging platform.

WordPress

WordPress is another popular blogging platform that is great if you want to get creative with your blog. They offer a variety of themes, fonts, and options to create a custom look. The only downfall is that the free tier does not allow you to monetize on your blog.

Jekyll

Jekyll is essentially a site generator. You create your content in TXT files and then build your site via liquid language templates. Once that's done you upload both on Jekyll and it will merge the two. The downfall is it is not as user-friendly as other blogging platforms, but this gives you advanced features to your blog such as plug-ins, excerpt rendering, the community maintained themes, etc. As well the platform is free.

Typepad

Typepad is designed for the professional program as it offers a lot of flexibility and easily integrates with Google Analytics. Typepad lets you customize the design of your blog with custom CSS. Typepad is also fully hosted and has support available. However, this platform has no free tier.

Medium

Medium is great if you want a simplistic platform. The medium does not offer many design features, however they are extremely user-friendly and have a free tier. You also can’t link Google Analytics to the website, however medium offers stats.

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