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How To Make Completely Free Blog?

· 5 min read
Kaustubh Kulkarni

In this tutorial we will see How To Make Completely Free Blog? Many times you want to generate Passive income but you don't want pay anything for expenses such as Domain name, Hosting, Theme or plugins?

So we're here to help you making blog completely Free of cost,

What are the expenses for a Blog?​

To run a successful blog you would need Good hosting that can handle your users, domain name like for example, Kaustubh K..com and theme, there are multiple Free themes available in the market but paid themes works much smooth, also there are paid plugins like for SEO, optimizations etc. These are the costs you may need to pay if you go for Paid blog, I will highly recommend if you are looking for blogging as your career, don't go for free blogging strategies, Go for paid Blog, Read How To Make the Fastest Blog in WordPress 5 Easy Steps? Now Let's Continue Making free blog as you read in title.

Ways To Make Free Blog​

There are Multiple ways to run Free Blog, we will see all ways one by one here, So Let's Get started.

We will see all ways one by one and definitely we will see advantages and disadvantages about all of these,

Blogger​

Blogger.com Blogger started on 23 August 1999 and Google acquired it in 2003, Blogger allows us to create a Free Blog site & all posts published on blogger are automatically added in Google Search results, You don't need to submit any sitemaps for anything else.

Advantages:​

  • It is Free
  • You don't need to submit any sitemaps etc
  • You get free .blogspot.com domain
  • You can customize using uploading your own theme
  • Secure & Fast
  • Free SSL
  • Custom Domain can be connected

Disadvantages​

  • If content goes against policy, then may be removed
  • No controls like WordPress
  • Not much customizable

Now after reading this if you want to make blog in blogger Let's Get started Here

WordPress.com​

wordpress.com

WordPress.com is a hosting service platform created by Matt Mullenweg and owned by Automattic, You can create your wordpress.com blog for free, But you have to use there own example.wordpress.com domain, to connect your own domain , you need to purchase paid plan.

Advantages:​

  • It is Free
  • You don't need to submit any sitemaps etc
  • You get free .wordpress.com domain
  • Secure & Fast
  • Free SSL
  • Custom Domain can be connected [ Paid Plans Only ]

Disadvantages​

  • If content goes against policy, then maybe removed
  • No controls like self-hosted wordpress.org
  • Not much customizable

Now after reading this if you want to make blog in WordPress.com Let's Get started Here

Free Hosting and Free Domain​

You can also create a free blog using Free domain and hosting, You can get free domain names like .tk, .ml, .cf etc for Free from freenom.com or other providers and Free hosting from or other providers, Once you have your domain and hosting, You can install WordPress [Content Management System] on hosting and can start writing your blog.

Advantages:​

  • It is Free
  • Customizable
  • Custom Domain can be connected later

Disadvantages​

  • If content goes against policy, then maybe removed
  • Not Reliable
  • If no of user's increases site may go down
  • High risk of Not getting data back
  • No SSL
  • Companies may access your data without any notice.

Hence it is not recommended to use, Now after reading this if you still want to make blog in Free domain and Free hosting Let's Get started Here

GitHub Pages​

If you are technically good, then you can go for GitHub Pages, please keep in mind this is for advanced users, it is completely free use But your blog source will be always visible.

Advantages:​

  • It is Free
  • You get free .github.io domain
  • Secure & Fast
  • Free SSL
  • Custom Domain can be connected
  • Completely customizable
  • High Speed

Disadvantages​

  • If content goes against policy, then maybe removed
  • Static Sites only
  • Source code of blog will be public

Now after reading this if you want to make blog on Github Pages, Let's Get started Here

Medium​

Medium is Free to use But you can not advertise here, You will get paid when their premium subscribers reads your post (story). They also provide premium plans also.

Advantages:​

  • It is Free
  • You get a free medium.com/username/ domain
  • Secure & Fast
  • Free SSL
  • Custom Domain can be connected [paid]
  • High Speed

Disadvantages​

  • If content goes against policy, then maybe removed
  • Not customizable
  • You can't place ads

Now after reading this if you want to make blog on Medium, Let's Get started Here