Recently I had to create 20 micro blogs so I've registered on a couple of free blogging websites. It turned out it's not so simple to find that many functional blogging sites. I think the biggest blog sites like WordPress, BlogSpot or Tumblr fave taken over the majority of the market and the small ones are closing business or they're struggling for survival. I had to find 20 working sites at all costs.
In the following article I'm going to share my experience about the free blogging websites I tried. Please note that the comments and ratings below are reflecting my own opinion. This review was created in January 2013.
| Site | My Opinion |
| blog.com | WP dashboard, themes, polls, galleries; Didn't like that 1/3 of the pages are ads |
| blogger.com | by Google, posts and sidebar only, themes, recommended for SEO |
| blogster.com | ugly old looking, throws errors |
| bravenet.com | nice drag and drop site builder; html, gallery, map, guestbook and other widgets |
| edublogs.org | education WP blogging service mainly for students and teachers; preinstalled themes and plugins |
| hubpages.com | easy to use sitebuilder, every new hub must be approved by admin |
| iseekblog.com | ugly old looking, gives Internal Server Errors, requires a one time $3 fee |
| jux.com | recommended for artists; responsive design; animated blog; easy to use dashboard |
| livejournal.com | difficlt to use, read more link didn't work for me; themes; posts, calendar, comments |
| posterous.com | nice dashboard, easy to use, simple posts |
| sites.google.com | templates; pages and blog functionality; when you create a new site pages are added with functionality |
| squidoo.com | create lenses (pages about a topic). They must contain at least 5 widgets like html, video, poll, ebay, comments |
| tumblr.com | social networking microblogging website, easy to use; over 77 million blogs |
| weebly.com | nice drag and drop admin interface, pages with html, contact form, search box; themes |
| wordpress.com | WordPress, over 56 million individual blogs |
| zoomshare.com | old-looking site |
Here are 3 sites which provide free web hosting with PHP - MySql. You can easily install a WordPress on these:
| freehostingeu.com | free hosting; no ads; you get a url like ruwix.eu.pn |
| foro.ro | free hosting, no ads you get a url like ruwix.foro.ro |
| ultraweb.hu | free hosting; ads in the header; no FTP connection; you get a url like ruwix.uw.hu |
And finally some sites which I tried but they weren't working for some reason:
| greasy.com | login problems |
| blogetery.com | WordPress, responds slow |
| blogdive.com | my blog disappeared |
| textpattern.com | not free |
| blogates.com | can't register |
| myblogsite.com | Server not found |
| aeonity.com | no new accounts can be created. Check back |
| blog.co.uk | The connection has timed out |
| blogsome.com | The connection has timed out |
| freeblogit.com | can't register |
| tblog.com | fatal error |
| typepad.com | not free |
| insanejournal.com | can't sign in |
| xanga.com | can't register |
| squarespace.com | not free |
| blogabond.com | no links allowed, travelblog |
| freeblogfactory.com | not free |
| soulcast.com | can't publish |
| thoughts.com | Not working |