 Best blogging platforms in-depth review and my recommendations. Okay, so this video is about the best blogging platforms and if you're like most people you probably just want to skip to the end and find out what the number one best pick is. Okay, it's WordPress. You're done. You don't have to watch the video now. Of course you have to watch the video. Of course you've got to watch this video because I'm going to give you some reviews and I'm going to give you recommendations based on what your niche is, based on what you're trying to do. You need to look at all this information to figure out what the best one is to match your business. Now if you haven't subscribed so far please do so. Hit that subscribe button down there. Turn it from red to gray. Don't forget to ring the bell. Turn all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I go live or if I upload a video. I'd like to walk through all of these and I think you'll find that different ones will work for different businesses. Things have changed a lot since I first got online. I started selling in 2009 and a lot of the platforms I use then I don't use now. A lot of the platforms I use now didn't even exist then so it's really important to stay on top of this stuff but you don't have to. All you got to do is watch this video and you'll know when you get to the end. Okay, like I said, number one is going to be WordPress. It just is. It's the best for creating a unique blog. WordPress is actually one of the most popular blogging platforms in the world and it's free to use and its potential to create is really boundless. You can blog for free at WordPress.com. The company hosts your site and gives you a sub domain. The downside is that it's supported by running its own ads unless you upgrade your plan so you can also download the platform for free at WordPress.org and use it on a site you host yourself. Hosting isn't free but if you go with a high quality WordPress host like Hostinger the whole thing winds up being less expensive than going with similar word site builder. The payoff is that you can build whatever you can imagine with your WordPress blog. Now I would suggest you downloading a good theme. There's a lot of themes that are available for WordPress. Those will keep your blog on brand and help you curate your posts for your readers. To add more functionality to your blog there are tens of thousands of WordPress plugins you can use. These will help with your SEO site security setting up newsletter subscriptions and a lot more and they're out there and you can use them. They're all good. There's also premium plugins and themes that you can buy to add rich capabilities or custom looks to your sites. Since WordPress is an open source and ridiculously popular platform there is an active community that consistently is building new features for today's challenges. It has as you see on the screen 55,000 plus plugins to extend the functionality of your site thousands of free and premium themes. The Gutenberg block editor advanced user roles and permissions powerful media management a massive community of experts and infinite design control. The number two pick is going to be Wix. Now if you're trying to shorten the amount of time from the time you start to the time you get your blog up Wix is going to be your answer. It's very intuitive you can build a beautiful blog there. They actually have a question and answer that you can fill out and it will actually construct your blog for you. So if you're looking at ease to use I guess Wix would be it not that WordPress is that hard but Wix is very intuitive and simple to use. Now Wix has something called ADI or advanced design intelligence. All you need to do is add a few keywords and tell Wix what your site is going to be about or what your blog is going to be about and it will actually construct it for you. Now you can get a free Wix account it won't cost you anything. However Wix will be in your URL which you probably don't want to have on down the road. In addition to that you're going to be limited to 500 gigabytes and you're going to have ads all over your site on the top on the bottom on the sides and it's going to be branded through Wix. If you don't want that I would highly suggest you paying for the upgrade it's not that much more money and it's well worth it to get rid of all that branding and just have your site as your site. As you can see here plans start as cheap as $14 a month for the combo plan which is good for personal use and the range up to about $39 a month for the VIP plan which has a lot more storage space and tools to grow your brand. The price includes web hosting which normally is around 10 bucks a month. So really Wix has everything you need as part of the premium package. You're looking for a beautiful site maybe you're a photographer maybe you're doing food videos or something along those lines then you're going to want to check out Squarespace. Squarespace is my number three pick and it's for people who want that really bold and beautiful design. Squarespace is known for this it's known that you know you could do a website in there and it looks like you're an expert designer when in fact it could be your very first website. That's what Squarespace is good at is giving you that beautiful design which is very helpful for certain niches. Now you can start with their built for you design templates but you can also use their drag and drop and change things around if you'd like to. But let's say you get stuck let's say you have a problem. Squarespace has excellent customer service and they're going to be more than willing to help you out because they want you to stay on their site. As you can see here Squarespace starts about $12 a month and can go as high as $40 a month and all the details are on their site. My number four pick is medium review. If you want to have people instantly reading your blog and instantly getting your information then medium review is the way to go. It's a site that has content for all kinds of different people. As a matter of fact a lot of the people do have to pay to view the content. If you join medium review there is a fee however if you're generating enough traffic you actually may get paid by having good content on medium review. Since people are already coming to medium review you're going to have built-in traffic. That's not something that any of the other sites I just talked about will be able to do for you. So if you want instant traffic if you want people instantly coming to you then medium review would be the way to go. Now you're not going to become a millionaire by putting your content on medium review because you're not controlling all the forms of making money a normal blog would be with affiliate links and ads and those type of things. They control all that however you can get instant traffic. Now since medium review is free to join you don't have to pay all the associated cost of having to pay for a domain or having to pay for hosting or any of those other things. You're just going to have to put your content out there. Let's move on to number five and number five is blogger. Blogger is owned by Google and they actually own all of the blogs on there. What you're going to have is you're going to have a sub domain so it may be the best cooking show ever blogger.com. Now the good thing about this is that Google handles all of the hosting of this and the domain registration and so forth but you don't really own a website. This is just for people who are maybe casual bloggers or a company that just wants a blog and have to have a place to put it. That's a good thing to do. You never have to worry about it going down. You never have to worry about it crashing or any of that because Google handles all that for you. Now even though Google does own this blog you can monetize it the way you want. You can put AdSense ads in there and anything else that you want to actually make some money. So it's a whole lot easier to monetize it than some of the other ones I've talked about. Keep in mind blogger is more of a story type format. So it's a place that people go to read stories. So if you want to build up your brand by telling your story or if you want to build up your brand having to do with cooking or exercise or whatever bloggers are a really good spot to do that. And the traffic is already there. People are already going there looking for this type of information and they just search for it and they stumble upon your blog and you get more viewers. Now since they do have all the control over this you don't have all the fancy templates. You're not going to be able to make a beautiful website or anything like that. This is going to be very basic. The flip side to that is you don't have to have a lot of technical knowledge. You can set up a blogger site almost instantly by just putting in a little bit of information and hitting go. In this video I've talked about two different ways of doing this basically. You can use what is a traditional blogging platform or you can have a website with a blog within it. Those are the two different ways you can actually go about it. And depending on what you want to do some are better than others. That's why I said at the beginning if you want to know my best you know blog site it's going to be WordPress. But that's not the best one for everybody depending on what they want to do. Maybe you want traffic right away. Maybe you want to make money right away. That wouldn't be the best way to go because it takes time to build that up. So as you can see one of these reviews like this if I'm being honest with you which I always am. I'm going to tell you what's going to be best for you as an individual is going to vary depending on what you want to do. Now you still may have questions about this. You still may have unanswered questions I haven't covered in this short video. Put them in the comment section below. Feel free to ask me. Make them specific too. A lot of times people will put a content down there and they'll say like how do I make money? 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