Here are few important questions around list of free blogging platforms that might be useful for you before using them to create free sites in 2019.
1. Are there any best free blog hosting sites available in 2019?
Yes, almost all of the blog sites mentioned above provide you hosting for free which means, they won’t charge you anything for hosting your site or posting any content on their platforms but they don’t give you full control unlike self-hosted platforms like WordPress.org.
That being said, if you are exclusively looking for best free blog hosting sites, here are a couple of them you can consider in 2019.
- Wix (gives you 500MB of storage)
- Weebly gives you 500MB of storage
- 000webhost gives you 10GB of bandwidth
2. How to use free blogging platforms to earn money online in 2019?
If you want to make money from blogging, we highly recommend you to start your site using a self-hosted publishing platform like WordPress which only costs you under $100 per year (where you’ll need to purchase hosting sites like Bluehost where you can get domain for free).
That being said, you can also make money using free blog creation sites and here are some of the following strategies to earn money with them.
- Selling affiliate products
- Using display ads like AdSense, Infolinks
- Selling banner ads
- Publishing sponsored product reviews
- Offering services such as SEO, design, content writing and so on
3. What do I need to setup a free account with list of free blog sites?
All you need to get started with list of free blog sites is use your email address and there are also few free blogging platforms that allow you to sign up for free with social media sites like Facebook and twitter.
If you’re looking for best free blogging platforms in India, go for WordPress or Blogger as they are widely popular in India both in terms of usage, affordability and features.
4. List any 5 websites that provide blog service for free?
Almost all of the 15 sites mentioned here provide blog service for free including Blogger, WordPress.com, Penzu, Yola and so on where you can create your free personal blog within a few minutes.
5. What are the top free blog posting sites for SEO in 2019?
Blogger and WordPress are exceptionally well made platforms if you are looking for top free blog posting sites for SEO. And if you’re looking for eCommerce related free blogging platforms, then you should consider both Magento and Shopify.
Hi Anil, you did a great job I was eagerly searching some more platforms and you solved my problem, thank you.
Massive list Anil.
I have used many of them for different purposes. But, postach sounded new to me.
I am blogging on self hosted WordPress since long time. But, being a beginner if I had to start a blog without any investment, I will definitely go for Blogspot platform. It is just awesome, hosted on Google’s server so no downtime at all.
My other favourite ones are WordPress dot com and Medium. Medium looks very professional altogether, and a perfect fit for hobby writer and even for exposure.
Thanks Anil, have a great day ahead.
In my experience, WordPress has many features for any new blogger. Blogger does not have full control over the theme. Please make a post on best hosting platforms also. because sever plays a very important role in traffic.
Your suggestion Very helpful for new bloggers. I have used tumblr, blogger & livejournal
Is it wiser to choose blogger.com as a free website?
Free blogging is always an issue for beginners. They think about blogging with WordPress. Self-hosted version of WordPress is a useful one but many bloggers go for free one because for them starting with some cost matters a lot. This will definatle right.
That’s so true Janitha, free blogging sites have their own downsides as they don’t offer you full control over your sites. But if you’re just blogging for fun or looking to share your thoughts, they are great. Or if you’re looking to make serious money or build your online reputation, then, you should definitely avoid free blogging sites.
Sir thank god, i found you on google, to make my dream come true as blogger, I am very new I had bought new domain leaving sub-domain of blogger.com.
sir what to do next should I buy hosting or the blogger.com with my custom name will be ok
Sir thank god, I discovered you on google, to make my blessing from heaven as blogger, I am exceptionally new I had purchased new area leaving sub-space of blogger.com.
sir what to do next should I purchase facilitating or the blogger.com with my custom name will be alright
Sir thank god, i found you on google, to make my dream come true as blogger, I am very new I had bought new domain leaving sub-domain of blogger.com.
sir what to do next should I buy hosting or the blogger.com with my custom name will be ok
WordPress is my personal favourite and after that comes blogger. I’d never prefer other free blogging sites unless you are doing it just for you hobby and don’t really care about your articles. If anyone who is serious about Blogging and planning to go full-time in it they should always prefer going with WordPress.org. Although, it needs some upfront investment but every penny is worth it once you start to get 10X the ROI. 🙂
Free blogging is always an issue for beginners. They think about blogging with WordPress. Self-hosted version of WordPress is a useful one but many bloggers go for free one because for them starting with some cost matters a lot. This will definatle right.
Hi. I use Weebly. I find it unreliable for uploading and posting photos. I use it mainly for posting photos for family to follow my comings and goings. I crashes a lot, especially from my phone. Also, it can not be posted to from my iPad. Most annoying.
Hi Anil, Thanks for this amazing list of free blog sites. Except for some 3-4 sites i never heard of these free blogging platforms. Luckily I got through your valuable post and now I’m trying how to get most of these sites.
Hi, Anil
Nice collection of free Blogging Site.You did a great work. Because blogging is one of the best practice every one out there are doing but none of them no the free site.For those who are looking for free website this will be helpful for them.
Thanks for sharing it great blog.
I am going to create a blog for my recently launched website. I have a question regarding these blog. Are the free blogs useful in terms of SEO? Should I do SEO work on these free blogs also?
Hey Allan, that’s a great question. Free blogs are definitely not bad in terms of SEO. Take a look at the WordPress alternatives as well (https://bloggerspassion.com/wordpress-alternatives/) once to see a variety of options. There are few sites that provide excellent SEO features such as WordPress and also provide you full control over your sites.
When i started blogging, my first free blogging platform was wordpress.com then when i realize that i cannot make a lot of customization, i migrated to blogger, and in the end i still bought my own hosting and tranfered to a self hosted blog. I recommend if you a free blogging platform, choose blogger.
If you’re really serious about making money from blogging, go for a self-hosted WordPress blog as it provides you full control. Self hosted platform like WordPress is where you go to actually download a WordPress and easily install host the WordPress platform on your own server.
Hey they!
In recent times, WordPress.com has been the most valuable website for opening a blog website. Well, I haven’t used livejournal.com but all I wish to know are the limitations of all the listed free blog websites from the paid sites?
Why do most bloggers use wordpress.com most often?
Emmanuel, we have already covered about the pros and cons of free blog sites in this post. Please check this post once and let us know in case you have additional question for us.
Hi, Anil Nice collection of free Blogging Site.You did a very good job. Because blogging is one of the best practice in off page and great job this web site provides SEO options and dynamic look for the website.
Thnks for sharing great blog A very helpful for website
Yes, blogging is definitely a great way to make money online and most of the free blogging sites shared here provide excellent features like drag and drop builder, SEO and so on. So make sure to check out each one of them and use the right one.
Hi Anil,
I agree with you, it can be a great thing to start on a free platform. Although, I started on a self-hosted blog from the get go. You can definitely save money by starting on a free platform.
Plus it will help you see if you really want to work this hard to grow your blog. It does take quite a bit of time to grow an online reputation and get people to start coming back.
If I was to do it over, I would start my blog on a self-hosted blog again. I wouldn’t want to have to migrate everything later when my blog gets big and popular.
Thanks for sharing this with us, have a great day 🙂
Susan
Hi Susan, glad to see you around here.
Using free blogging sites, you can quickly launch a new blog without having to spend even a penny as most of the above listed sites provide you excellent features and storage space. Once you find ways to make money from online, you can start using sites like WordPress where you can invest money on hosting, domain etc.
Really Great list of Website and very useful, I have often use Weebly.com, this website provides SEO options and dynamic look for the website.
True that, Weebly is great for SEO purposes and also used by over 40 million people worldwide. Using Weebly, you can literally create anything from an online store to portfolio sites or SEO friendly websites to drive more leads and profits to your online website.
I always tell people when they’re starting out blogging that Free sites like Bloggers is the best way to start out because they allow you to put ads in the header, beginning paragraph of your blog posts, sidebar, bottom of the blog post, and footer of the blogger blog. One thing they want to do when starting a free blog is to make sure they have a copy of their contents either on their desktop PC or automatically sent to Google Drive. The reason for saving a copy of their content to their laptop or desktop PC or sent to their Google drive is because their blog can be deleted anytime for any or no reason. Being that the blogging platform they’re blogging on is public domain and anyone can report their blogs or any or no reason, it should motivate the amateur blogger to backing up their content and using the free blog platform form as an avenue of practice of strategically getting their content marketing ideas together and gaining some type of experience. Or just getting in the consistent mindset of posting blogs daily or every other day. This valuable experience I think will give them the inspiration and the proper blogging mindset so when they purchase their own domain and dedicated web hosting package, they’ll know how to keep going the extra mile in terms of blogging, content marketing, and having a piece of mind not having to worry about getting their blog deleted for whatever reason.
I would personally recommend free blogging platforms for anyone looking to gain experience and transition into the mindset of consistent blocking. It gives a person much to look forward to in terms of optimizing their writing style and building relationships with their readers without having to shell out one red cent for it a domain name and hosting. I personally tried Blogger.com back in 2005 when I knew nothing about blogging and affiliate marketing. Back then, I was an affiliate of Walmart.com and didn’t have the complete concept understood about blogging back then, content marketing, and making money in affiliate marketing. Though I made tons of mistakes and didn’t completely understand what a blog was and how it could make money while fiddling with some Walmart ads from LinkShare inside of certain positions in a blogger.com blog, I was able as an inexperienced Internet marketer-blogger to make money from the Walmart affiliate program through my blogger blog and collect a commission check a little over $72. I thought at that time I was really onto something and decided to stick with this line of work as my love slowly and quietly rule for blogging and affiliate marketing. I continue fiddling with the blogger free blogging platform and managed to potentially earn a few more dollars from the affiliate ads in it, some including Google AdSense.
So I’m really glad you put up this post about free blogging sites because it brought back some good memories of the days that I started when I knew nothing about blogging and making money online. I didn’t know about the other free blogging platforms because my mind was elsewhere at the time and was only concerned with knowing one free blogging platform that I can put some ads in my blog and start earning a few bucks just to see how serious this online business stuff really was at the time. Well, thanks again for putting this post up and I hope to read more from you soon! 🙂
Wow, that’s a very lengthy comment and I really appreciate your time for sharing your thoughts with us. It definitely helps new bloggers to pick the right choice for starting a free blog online. I agree with most of your points that one need to take a full backup of their contents as most free blogging sites don’t provide you any backup feature. Apart from that, you also need to focus on finding a monetization strategy as soon as possible so you can move to something better option like WordPress.
blog.com is gone! My breast cancer story blog is no longer available. I can’t believe it is gone. I should have made a copy, but I usually use blogger and they are so reliable. Not sure why I tried this instead. Devastated! 🙁
Unfortunately it’s gone and thousands of people lost their blogs as well. Sad to hear that your precious content is gone. That’s the reason why you need to only pick those free blogging sites with millions of people using it (sites like WordPress.org, Weebly, Blogger etc). Hopefully you’re still blogging on a good blogging platform.
The above websites are very useful, but I am a little bit confused with LiveJournal & Edublogs. Because my friend told me that both of the websites have robot issue. Please reply. Thanks
I don’t think so. Live Journal is a really good platform and if you’re looking for even better alternatives, you can check out this post: https://bloggerspassion.com/wordpress-alternatives/
hello!
great research on blog platforms.your suggested platform very informative for newly bloggers.IN my blogging carrier i have used many blogging platforms like blogger,tumblr etc.but i like WordPress most.
Thanks for information
Yes, I’m also into blogging for a long while now and I’ve tried so many blogging sites but WordPress seems to be the best option among all. WordPress is, by far, the most popular open source Content Management System which is actually used by approximately 75 million websites. Not only WordPress is free to install and upgrade but you can also find a ton of useful plugins and themes.
Veerrry good list of blog platform providers. I saw today many other similar pages, but yours collects indeed the best platforms for blogers. IMHO own hosted (f.i. on a cheap hosting) blog, installed on wordpress or something like that, would be always better choice – there are so much more options, you can use or not, but they are there 😉 But of course, for beginners it could be to difficult, then the better option is a free blog platform like the platforms on your list. Thank you!
If you’re on WordPress, you can find so many cheap yet reliable hosting services like Bluehost (instead of going for unknown and less popular hosting choices) as they also provide you free domain name. If you want more info: you can check out this post: https://bloggerspassion.com/how-to-install-wordpress-on-bluehost-in-under-5-minutes-with-screenshots/
LiveJournal is nofollow. And SquareSpace is trial only. Try Zoho or SnackWebsites.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s nofollow or not as we’re only talking about the free blogging sites. Thanks so much for your other suggestions as well!
Hi Anil,
I am starter blogger person and i follow you last six month your all post and read very careful so you all post useful for me. and i am asking one question can you advise me best theme for starter blogger.
First of all, thanks so much for following me for so long time and I’m really glad to know that you’re reading our blog posts, hopefully you’re learning new things. For starting bloggers, there are so many options out there, I suggest you to check out Elegant themes once.
Hi Anil!
Would you mind if I ask you what theme are you using for this blog? I liked it very much and would want a similar one (using same will not be good).
I hope you will be able to answer this.
Thnks!
Dhakkanz
Dhakkanz, its a custom build theme which is designed by designer.
Hi. I use Weebly. I find it unreliable for uploading and posting photos. I use it mainly for posting photos for family to follow my comings and goings. I crashes a lot, especially from my phone. Also, it can not be posted to from my iPad. Most annoying.
If you’re using a site only for uploading pics, I think you should better check out Tumblr as most people I see post a ton of photos and it’s also a great platform that offers you a ton of options for storage. So go give it a try if you’re not happy with Weebly.
Blog.com is a piece of crap, it never works right and the server is down a lot, it runs slow. Especialy in the last 10 days, it has been horrible.
You can only know a blog by actually trying it, don’t tell people how great it if you haven’t used on a daily basis like i have.
Shams, we recently updated this post and added 5 more free blog creation sites into this list. I hope this will help you. Please let us know in case we are missing any popular free blogging platform here.
Blog.com is no more active now and thousands of people who’re using their platform lost their content and sites. You can better check out this post if you’re serious about building your blog on a professional platform: https://bloggerspassion.com/wordpress-alternatives/
ucoz.com is the site which lets you control the way your site works. You can add css, scripts, html, pages, entries, multiple users, multiple subdomains. It provides the option of search through tags, common search. Moreover own themes can be added with full style sheet control.
Heard a lot of good things about Ucoz, thank you for your suggestion, will definitely check it out and include it as well in the future. I guess it’s already offering easy to use drag-and-drop website builder with an intuitive interface designed for businesses. Keep sharing more information.
Hi Anil,
Free blogging is always an issue for beginners. They think about blogging with WordPress.org or WordPress.com. Self-hosted version of WordPress is a useful one but many bloggers go for free one because for them starting with some cost matters a lot.
Blogspot and WordPress.com are the leading websites which provide opportunity to blog free of cost.
You have listed some great websites to use by newbies.
Great post indeed.:)
Have a nice week ahead.
~Ravi
Hi Ravi, as you said, free blogging sites are definitely an issue for anyone including beginners as they don’t provide you much control, features, security, storage and so on but the only reason to consider them is when you’re starting out, it’s always better to start for free (unless you’re ready to spend some money on things like hosting, design etc). Thanks for the comment.
WordPress.com is the best site for creating blog as wordpress provides various themes and plugins to use .
But I think blogger.com is the anathor great site for begginers.
Blogger.com and wordpress are two most popular blogging sites also tumbler is popular but it didnt provide options like wordpress
WordPress.com doesn’t provide you plugins WordPress.org provides you all the plugins. The major difference between both of them is WordPress.com is completely free to use whereas the latter one requires hosting, domain etc. You can check this post if you’re curious: https://bloggerspassion.com/blogger-vs-wordpress/
I have only tried 3 out of that list, Blogger, LiveJournal & WordPress. I then discovered the wonderfulness of self-hosting my own WordPress blog and have never even contemplated looking anywhere else. 🙂
That’s what I think about WordPress too. Once you’ve realised the importance of using WordPress.org, you’ll never go back to any other blogging platform. It’s just like becoming an Apple fanboy, once you’re addicted to Apple products, you’ll never go back to something else.