WordPress vs. Blogger vs. Medium
What is the best blogging platform?
I love answering questions on Quora, and I have seen this one many, many times. People are always looking for the best places to blog and want to know other people’s experiences with all of the available options.
While it often comes down to personal preference, there are a few key factors I want to examine:
- Audience
- Control
- Money
Note: Just to clarify, wordpress.com is a blog service and includes hosting. Wordpress.org was launched in 2003 as a basic blog tool but has since really changed into a content management system, is self-hosted, and is part of Open Source, so you can use the software for anything with no license fee.
Audience
All three options make it easy for people to follow your blog and get to see your writing.
My favorite thing about Medium is that there is a built-in audience already on the platform looking for new things to read. Because of this, I find Medium to be the easiest platform on which to build an audience of readers and followers.
On blog sites like Wordpress and Blogger, I feel it is much harder to build an audience because you have to get people to go to your site…
