Web 2 Blogs To Post To

I've been asked if I know of other web 2 sites that allow creating free blogs, similar to Wordpress or here, Blogger.

Basically these free sites let you create a blog and simply keep a journal on whatever topic you want to write on. However these blogs are also great for promoting our Squidoo lenses. Let's face it, without a bit of promotion, there is no way other people will find our lenses in the first place.

I am using a few of these platforms so here are some of the more popular free ones where I have started a blog similar to this one, where I write about some of my hobbies, about Squidoo and life in general:

- Blogger (like this blog here) - PR 9
- Wordpress - PR 9
- Page.tl - PR 7
- Blog.com - PR 6
- Typepad - PR 8
- Livejournal - PR 8 (nofollow links)

Except Lifejournal which changes it's settings to nofollow backlinks (which makes it almost useless for getting backlinks from that blog - if that's the purpose of using it), every other platform is dofollow. Of course, the more blogs you're on, the more time you will spend writing, and the more Squidoo lenses you have, the more you have to backlink to them.

This is why at some point, you have to decide just how many of these blogs you can safely maintain on a regular basis. Because let's not forget, these are blogs, not some article directories, and as personal blogs, if you want to have followers and readers and authority, you need to post regularly, at least a couple of times a week.