Don’t be fooled:  no two blog hosting services are the same, and if you truly want to make money blogging, finding the right blogging service is actually crucial to your game.  After all, not all blog services provide the same suite of features, and some are bound to be better at supporting a money-making blog than the rest.

But which blog hosting services are perfect for your money-making blog, and which ones don’t cut muster?  Below is a short list of the biggest names in blogging so that you can decide which service is best for your blog:

1.  Blogger.com

Because creating a Blogger.com blog is incredibly easy, this blog hosting service has become a popular choice for bloggers everywhere.  You don’t have to pay anything, and you don’t have to have any experince in HTML or any programming language just to have your site up and running.  The problem?  Blogger.com doesn’t give you the kind of tools or customizing freedom that your blog will eventually need to earn any money.

If you’re into blogging only as a hobby, for personal reasons, or just for kicks, Blogger’s simplicity will definitely fit your purposes,  If you want to make money, however, Blogger probably can’t support your site very well, as opposed to other hosting services.

2.  WordPress
When it comes to WordPress, you essentially have two choices:  one, to go with their free, hosted service at WordPress.com, or two, to put up your self-hosted, fully customizable blog with WordPress.org.  The former, WordPress.com, bears a striking resemblance to Blogger.com’s platform, except that it has a sprinkling of additional features, such as automatic site tracking, a dashboard text editor, and a spam blocker.

As far as monetizing your blog goes, however, the self-hosted blog at WordPress.org is the smarter choice.  While it’s not exactly something beginners will be comfortable with, WordPress.org blogs can be downloaded for free, and support thousands of free WordPress themes and plugins out there.  Customization is a breeze, but only if you’ve had enough experience with blogging and some HTML know-how.  Beginners will balk at having to pay for their own hosting, however, so going for WordPress.org has its trade-offs, especially if you’re a blogging newbie.

3.  SOLOBIS.net
If you haven’t heard of the SOLOBIS.net WordPress Plan yet, it’s because this service is the newest one in the blogging industry.  Don’t be fooled by the fact that it’s fresh, though.  This service looks like it can outdo the current giants, simply because it provides a solution that the big names don’t: it gives bloggers the best of both worlds.

When you sign up for an account in SOLOBIS.net, you get a SOLOBIS.net subdomain (e.g., www.johnsmith.solobis.net), plus a WordPress engine-powered blog that any beginner can manage and customize without a hitch.  Not just that:  SOLOBIS.net users have over a hundred gorgeous templates to choose fromas well as a range of the most powerful, money-making WordPress plugins.  Ordinarily, you would have access to these monetizing tools only if you had a WordPress.org blog and paid for your own web hosting, but the SOLOBIS.net WordPress Plan offers all these perks at absolutely no cost.

Because SOLOBIS.net blogs are already pre-installed with the best plugins for turning in a profit, beginners don’t have to rack their brains about which plugins are best for making money, or which blog themes and templates are crowd-pleasers.  Ordinarily, to make money blogging means that you have to work through months of trial and error, but the SOLOBIS.net WordPress Plan eliminates all that second-guessing by giving you the best plugins and templates that the WordPress community can offer you.

Now that you know what the differences between these blog hosting services are, it should be easier to make a choice about which provider you’ll choose.  If you just want to blog for the heck of it and don’t want anything costly or fussy, Blogger’s for you.  If you’re into monetization and if you’re eager to make money blogging, then WordPress.org and SOLOBIS are right up your alley.  If you want a free service that gives you all the best things that a paid blog can give you, however, SOLOBIS is the right provider for you.

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