Blogging is at the heart of online marketing for businesses. Blogging helps businesses to communicate their vision, their take on their industry and how they will shape the industry. Regular blogging also attract leads. If they sell online products, they might even make a sale through their blog. Once you decide to blog, then comes the question of ‘where’ to blog. Here are some of the popular & emerging blogging platforms. Detailed blog post at: http://jjude.com/blogging-platforms/

1. Roundup of popular &
emerging blogging
platforms
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2. Types of blogging platforms
1.Hosted
2.Self-hosted
3.Desktop blogging engines
4.Hosted blog generators

3. No installation
Signup & start publishing
Hosted Platforms

4. Design your blog as you like
Self-Hosted Platforms

5. No database queries
Blog is fast, secure and scalable
Static Blog Generators

6. Hosted Static Blog Generators
Best of both self-hosted platforms
& static blog generators
•blog from anywhere
•get a fast, secure, scalable blog

7. Hosted Platforms

8. Wordpress
https://wordpress.com/
+ Popular platform
+ Largest community
+ Can move to self-hosted
+ Start for free
- No control over design
- No control over performance
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9. Ghost
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+ Blog centric
★ Start for $8 / month
https://ghost.org

10. Postagon
+ Blog centric
+ Markdown editing
+ Private posts & drafts
+ Custom domain
★ Start for $4.49 / month
https://www.postagon.com/
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11. Medium
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https://medium.com/
+ Hosted blogging
+ Acts as distribution channel
★ Free
- Tuned for readers; not for
marketers

12. Postach
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http://postach.io
+ Evernote to blog
★ $9 / month

13. Self-hosted Platforms

14. Wordpress
https://wordpress.org
+ Popular platform
+ Largest community
+ Support by many hosts
- Slow
- Security Issues
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15. Ghost
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https://ghost.org
+ Blog centric
- Resource consuming (node.js)

16. Weebly
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http://www.weebly.com/
+ Build a whole site
+ Drag & drop features
+ Built-in e-commerce
★ Start for free

17. Statamic
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http://statamic.com/
+ No database; only files
+ Version controlled
+ Other features like
taxonomy & search
★ Starts at $29

18. Static Blog Generators

19. Jekyll
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http://jekyllrb.com/
+ Markdown to HTML files
+ Fast, secure, scalable blogs
+ Host on Amazon S3, Github
pages or any other server
★ Free
- Only from where it is
installed

20. Statiked
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http://statiked.com/
+ Desktop app
+ Upload to Amazon S3 or
Github Pages
★ $19.99
- Only for Mac
- Blog only from installed Mac

21. Cactus
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http://cactusformac.com/
+ Write, develop locally
+ Upload to Amazon S3
+ Supports CSS preprocessors
★ Free
- Only for Mac
- Blog only from installed Mac

22. Hosted Static Blog Generators

23. Siteleaf
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http://www.siteleaf.com/
+ Supports pages, posts,
taxonomy like Wordpress
+ Team publishing
+ Generates plain HTML
+ Fast, scalable & secure blogs
★ Starts at $9 per month

24. Olai
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http://olai.in
+ Generates plain HTML files
+ Automatic pushing to S3
+ Fast, scalable & secure blogs
★ $5 for 10 posts
Disclaimer: I developed Olai

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