Blogging application.

[imkathy]

Hi everyone,
                Can you give me an example of which blogging application do you use and why?

Name some pitfalls that I should be aware of.
How can they be avoided?

Thank you in advance

[dave denz]

I think blogger is still the best blogging platform there is out there. It's free and completely customizable. Wordpress is popular, but you'll have to host the blog yourself if you want to serve ads.

Those two are the top players, and I haven't seen another service so far that can beat them.

[majhi]

Hi all,
If you are using free blogging platforms like Blogger, Tumblr or Wordpress.com, you have no control over when these platforms decide to close you down.

As for the Google indexing point laid out by SpaceBOT, I would say that this is not true. Self hosted Wordpress blogs can do on page SEO optimization better for the search engines with some great SEO plugins like the All In One SEO Plugin. The speed of indexing depends largely on the number of authoritative links that a site is getting rather than what CMS are you using.

Setting up a self-hosted Wordpress blog is not that hard, even for a complete newbie as most web hosts come with a installation program called Fantastico which you are only required to type in some details and click Next Finish.

[imkathy]

Thanks all , i will try out the various options suggested by you.
Guide me in near future.