Need to start blogging, but where?

Like you, I'm working on this as well; launching month end. Here's my perspective..

1. Since you're working on your brand, you definitely need to publish on your domain name! You can, then, syndicate elsewhere to reach a wider audience. One such place is Medium.

If you're writing technical articles, you'll want to consider syndicating to platforms like dev.to, and hashnode.

Bottom line, publish on other platforms that allows for canonical url - a way to tell Google you own this content and they should rank your site higher. LinkedIn and Free code camp doesn't seem to offer this. Indie hacker does.

Concerning the tools, you can use :

• WordPress
• Static site generator if you're conversant with code (this is what I'm using)
• webflow for no code tool.

*you may be able to start with little or no capital if you use either of the last two options.

I hope this help.

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In case you have any questions, please put them forward, I'll do my best to answer them.

i've suggested just using IH too:

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/3-ways-to-use-indie-hackers-as-a-project-product-blog-f6fc367485

Nothing wrong with going with the crowd as well as building your own audience. What you can do is publish to your own page, then publish to LinkedIn, Medium etc. Leaving a little footnote saying this post originally appeared on XYZ blog at <link>. Building your own audience (on a private domain) will take a lot longer but the value is huge.

If you'd like regular, SEO optimized blog posts, I just launched a service for that! 😉 No offshoring like you'll see elsewhere. https://contentkoala.com

If you're looking for the quickest way to start blogging I created a completely free, minimalist blogging platform https://bearblog.dev

It's open source and you can add your custom domain. My personal blog is there at https://herman.bearblog.dev

my 2 cents

Medium and Dev.to are the ones I use most of the time. They are easy to get started with and you can always move to your custom blog later.

Start on medium and then you could move after you built up a following

Since you mentioned raising product awareness, just curious why not blog for your product? Only seeing a handful of indexable pages by Google and the CMS/website space is getting competitive - starting a blog might be helpful (if you go this route, definitely have it on your domain as third party platforms won't help with SEO).

Especially for personal blogging I'm a big fan of Known (withknown.com). I would stay away from Medium (walled garden).

Start with WordPress.org, there's a reason why they power 30% of the web :) It's the most popular CMS amongst bloggers because it's SEO-friendly, it has lots of themes, and plugins.

If you are doing a more developer-oriented blog. You should definitely check out https://hashnode.com . It helps you reach audience from day 1 and it is everything opposite to medium. No paywall, easy backups of your articles to your github repo (easy export of your content if you choose to leave) and you can have all this on your own custom domain, so you'll be creating your brand not medium's

Hey @RichAwo - check out https://midnight.pub. It's a little community of writers/bloggers themed around the concept of a local, virtual pub. Here are example of blogs:

• https://midnight.pub/u/tmo
• https://midnight.pub/u/kernelpancake
• https://midnight.pub/u/BrightBlue

I think I’ve used almost every service out there. And while “going where the crowd is” isn’t a bad option, it’s also dependent on what you want as far as control.

I’m using Ghost (self hosted on a Raspberry Pi) right now. Ghost and Medium are both great “just to write.” But they’re not Wordpress.

There are really a wide range of options.

If you are looking to build a personal brand, Medium is great. If you are a bit more tech savvy (or enjoy designing websites, WordPress is also a good option). Platform comparison I wrote here.

Substack is useful if you want to build an email list and start interacting with an audience.

It also depends on what your product is.