A blog service that guarantees visits

There are many blogging services these days, one of the most popular is Blogger, then heavy smokers prefer WordPress and Americans go crazy for Spaces. There are several criteria for choosing where to set up a blog, including the functionality you can expect, guaranteed traffic and other aspects that motivate visits.

In my case, although I had a blog on Blogger before, and I became an expert in the famous 5 minutes of WordPress, when I started Geofumadas I was drawn to Cartesianos, which mounted on WordPress MU can grow in terms of functionality (depending on Tomás's time, of course) but I was very struck by the influx of users in the geomatics area coming from Cartesia, which has allowed me to have a valuable neighborhood.

When choosing a blog service, you should consider the facilities that allow you to focus on the subject: WRITING, without wasting so much time on complications, such as installing new plugins, updating the new version of WordPress, or getting stuck with complicated templates, not to mention hosting crashes or exceeding the hosting limit.

An example of an almost complete service is Thoughts, a quite interesting blogging provider, like many others but with some features that for some will seem very practical:

1. Wysiwyg for editing

This is pretty cool, as there are things that WordPress still makes complex; like placing images without editing the code, handling tables or fonts. The Thoughts editor is very complete and helps you see what you will get without having to publish. Of course, this can be achieved with WordPress… if you are willing to live with the stress of updates and compatibility of features built around crazy creativity.

2. Easy video upload

If you install WordPress, it is difficult to implement video plugins, not because there are not many, but because very few are practical for integrating embedded video with size settings and control buttons. The possibility of handling podcasts makes it more attractive for those who want to take video sharing beyond copy-pasting YouTube URLs.

3. Management of images in galleries

Many blogs come to life for their images, the gallery options that Thoughts brings are easy to configure for the thumbnail display and display effects of particular images. Being able to add tags to images to improve the effectiveness of visits from image search engines looks good, especially to avoid that the CTR (for those of us who monetize blogs) is affected by poor quality traffic that usually happens when the images do not have tags that properly position them with respect to keywords.

4. Easy feed back

The controls on the statistics panel, visits, traffic sources seem quite functional to know the activity of the site... you will surely have to depend on the tyranny of the Google Analytics can but perhaps the default WordPress panel falls short (without the plugins)

5. A great community.

This is the best that a blogging service can offer, which brings visitors by the way awards are promoted or the organization of tag clouds. I particularly like Cartesianos because the Cartesia community guarantees at least 50 visits a day if you write regularly, so if you decide on Thoughts you will surely find visits within your theme.