Top 10 Blog Software

How To Choose Your Blogging Software

Although blog software available in the market today keeps increasing everyday, some software stands out from the crowd. At the very top, based on the number of users and user-friendliness is WordPress. WordPress is both easy to install and use and requires no special design or programming knowledge. The software also comes complete with publishing and tracking tools so that the blogger is able to tell the amount of traffic that the blog is attracting. The writing tools in WordPress are also user-friendly and the free account comes with storage capacity of 3 GB.

TypePad is another great blog software. For the features it comes with, TypePad is quite reasonably priced and will cost you less than $5 in monthly membership. The real power of TypePad is that it is able to submit blog entries to the major search engines such as Google and Technorati and is therefore ideal for people trying to develop traffic to their sites.

Squarespace is another great blog software and one of its greatest strengths is that it extremely easy to use and, like the two software above, does not require any special design or programming knowledge. The software is available for as little as $8 dollars in monthly payments and the blog you start can easily be expanded into a full website.

Equally easy to use and also available for free is LiveJournal. The only real drawback for this software is that it does not provide info on traffic and also that some features are unavailable for non-paying users.

Owned by Google, Blogger is another great software which also comes free and is extremely user-friendly. Like LiveJournal, Blogger does not provide info on traffic unless the user upgrades to the paid status.

BlogHarbor is software that has the great advantage of enabling the blogger to post from his or her mobile phone and also provides up to date info on blog traffic. By allowing use of Google AdSense, users of BlogHarbor could easily start making money from their blogs.

Another great blog software is Xanga which is easy to set up and use and is also available for free. While the features available for free membership are limited, paying for subscription will make additional features and greater storage space available.

EasyJournal, as the name suggests, is also easy to use and in addition enables the blogger to take charge of the blog. With EasyJournal, you are able to review comments before they are posted and this enables the blogger to decide what to approve and what to disapprove.

Open Salon is blogging software that stands out from the rest because of the fact that the emphasis by the creators of this software was on blog content rather than design features. The creators of Open Salon encourage people to blog on subjects they are passionate about.
Rounding off the list of top 10 blog software is Vox, the easy to use and free software. Perhaps the greatest strength of Vox is the 24 hour support that is offered to the users. By simply typing your query, you are able to obtain answers to any problems you might be experiencing with the software.