Free blogs are what make it an ideal choice for bloggers of all levels, they provide useful places for bloggers to build their own ideas and thoughts for a no cost start up to do so, although usually after a short period of time you need to consider a domain name for your blog if you are serious, as this will seperate you from others who don't have a domain name for their blog and make you look more professional if you want to look this way.

Blogging should provide in any blogging platform a way of presenting your own writing style with the usual addition of useful plug-ins and interactive tools for expanding your readership and making your blog a search engine friendly place to get your blog indexed.

And this hub will collect them all for you, find and use what you will as blogging is a great way of earning an income online and lots of bloggers actually get high profile jobs through their blogs or even leave their jobs to do blogging full time.

The shining moment in your blog is to showcase your knowledge and thoughts and make them interesting to your readers, the more you write useful and engaging content, the more likely you are to capture new readers on a consistent basis, the key with blogs is to get people interested and then subscribe to your blog, so they can get new blog post updates as and when you write them.

So really the benefits for using free blogging platforms are.....

• Free and no cost start up for blogging
• Low risk, if it fails, all you've wasted is just time
• Could potentially have a high page rank(P5 or above!)
• Easy to use
• Free support
• Community

I think that to start out blogging, to use the free blogs is a great way of seeing what works with blogging, maybe set up a few test blogs and just run with them for awhile to see what you can do with them, I did this and I learnt alot by playing around with the many features that is available for free blogging tools and platforms.

Later on when thinking seriously about blogging as a viable business or a hub traffic destination cross roads, then you could consider getting a domain name and moving or salvaging some of your half decent test blog posts over to your serious blogging effort.

When you do think about blogging as a serious money making venture, then read this quick review of the Problogger book, which gives you top blogging tips on starting your blog and more importantly growing your blog and making potentially a six figure income through your blog.