Advantages of Hosted Blog Platforms

Jan 7, 2010 by Shivendu Madhava

If you are planning to start your first blog and have no idea how to do the things then I am sure you will choose Hosted Blog Platforms.Some of them from which you can choose are WordPress, Blogger, Type Pad, Ning, Vox, Live Journal, Windows Live Spaces, Xanga and there are few more.Hosted Blog Platforms are mostly being used by beginners because it has many pros and cons and today we have came up with pros of Hosted Blog Platforms.

Using a hosted platform has many advantages. Some of the most immediate are listed here:

• Cheap or free to run—Most hosted options are free.

• Quick and easy to set up—Most of these types of blogs can be set up with a basic default template within minutes. The setup is usually just a matter of filling in a few fields with your options and choosing a template design. They are ideal if you know nothing or very little about the technological side of blogging. You’ll see more on this later.

• Simple to run—Once you’re through the easy setup process, hosted blogs are usually pretty simple to run. You will obviously need to learn some basics, but these days most blog platforms come with very user-friendly features. Posting is as simple as filling in a few text boxes and clicking Publish.

• Updated automatically—If the blog platform changes it will automatically upgrade for you. Instead of having to upload new software onto a server, these updates happen much more seamlessly.

• Search engines and traffic—One of the advantages of many hosted blog platforms is that they are hosted and linked from sites that already attract search engine attention and traffic. Some of this “rubs off” on your blog, giving it a little boost.