Which is the best blogging site to use?

[Amapoleon]

Hi, looking for a few tips please. I have been offered some work writing a blog. I have been asked to use an external blog site, which can be linked to a web page, facebook group etc, to increase the ranking in search engines. Can you see i'm a novice? Hehehe. So basically, which is the best one to use? Thanks.

I like blogspot but others will prefer wordpress... each to their own. Blogger is easy for me to use but I am lazy with templates/layout etc and just use the default. I use dlvr.it for rss feeds to other sites (twitter, FB, tumblr etc) and it's easy to manage.

If it's for a business, then Wordpress is much more business-like, and if you are going to do this professionally then it's worth learning how to use Wordpress. However, you're not supposed to have paid-for links on wordpress.com (which I guess they would be if you're being employed to write the posts) so all in all self hosted wordpress.org is probably your best bet. Or there's always Typepad, which not many people use (apart from me), it's very easy to operate.

I tried Tumblr but it was FULL of pictures of cats. And boobs. and you know other silly things. Now on Blogger blogging away happily...

Blogger users will say Blogger, WP users will say WP ;)

I am a WP user, although I have used Blogger too. Both are pretty decent and easy to user.

I think that WP is better for what you are looking for - you can add various functions via their plug ins, including SEO tools, which I am trying out at the moment.

To make it look more professional, I would go for WP.

Thanks all.