Hay, in this article we will discuss, where and how we start blogging and share the best way which worked for me when I started. Among multiple Hosting options available, Blogger and WordPress is always the top and most popular one. As they provide drag-and-drop, easy-to-install plugins, you don’t need to have expertise in web design or development to create a webpage, you can choose responsive themes for free.

As per your need, below possible solutions may help you to choose the best option for you:

1. If you are starting a blog for fun or sharing information and knowledge, earning money is not your goal, then the best is to start with Blogger.com or WordPress.com for free and it’s easy to manage.
2. If you want to start blogging to generate revenue and promote your website as a business, then buy a Hosting and Domain from a well-known provider like Godaddy.com, Bigrock.in, Bluehost.com, or Hostgator.in and use a self-hosted platform like wordpress.org or use your Web Design/Development knowledge.
3. If you want to take blogging as a profession but do not have much understanding of how things work, then choose Blogger.com or WordPress.com to start gaining knowledge of how things work then follow the second point.

In this article, I only discussed Blogger.com and WordPress.com. Later in this series, we will discuss more options.

Blogger.com

Blogger is a product of Google that comes with many features and benefits. If you ask me, I prefer blogger.com to start.

• Gives you Free Hosting Platform.
• Gives you Free Sub Domain Name under Blogger, if I choose the free domain name option then our website name will be googletopper.blogspot.com instead of googletopper.com. However, you can add your custom domain name also.
• Gives you multiple Basic and Responsive Free Themes.
• Highly Secure as it is a product of Google.
• Blogger provides you with many Options/Plugins for free which you may need to buy from others.
• Creating a blog on blogger is very easy, only you need a Gmail account.

WordPress.com

WordPress is also a free hosting platform like Blogger, started in 2003 as an open-source project and is now one of the most popular ones.

• Provides Free Hosting.
• Provides free domain or you can say a subdomain under wordpress.com like ofbit.wordpress.com
• Better and very Responsive Themes but available to choose from.
• Creating a blog on WordPress is very Simple.
• You can add a Custom Domain name.

When we talk about WordPress, one who is new can be confused to understand the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org.

Well in our further article we try to understand the major differences between Blogger.com, WordPress.com, and WordPress.org and their Pros and Cons so that you can choose the best for you.