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TypePad

Typepad is an ultimate place for all blog addicts. Founded on 03-31-2003, the blogs hosted by this site caters to the interests of individuals, businessmen, professionals and almost everyone. Other services provided by this website is hosting and publishing of weblogs, small business websites, and storing photo albums. The average load time is 2.3 seconds and about 12,634 other sites link to this site. Creating a blog on Typepad is much cheaper than having a personalized website or email newsletter.

Features and Content

The search-engine-friendly blogs on Typepad helps in reaching out targeted clients, both existing and new, to expand business. On a personal front, it makes photo sharing easier and help users to broadcast news to the world or share common interests with other users. All this can be done at the click of a mouse and starting a blog is a child’s play. After blog creation, updating the blog is also very easy. One doesn’t need to be a computer professional or have knowledge about HTML to get started here.

To begin with, select from one of the professional designs which can be customized later on with the help of drag-and-drop tools. And if the blog templates don’t impress you, tools are provided to build blog from the scratch. Point-and-click Tools are provided for maintaining the conversation with other users. Blog owners can choose to not to allow any one to post feedbacks on their blog. “CAPTCHA test” is administered to test whether a post is a machine post or human post. Abusive users (or IP addresses) can be banned from the blog or post can be withheld until verified by the blog owner. Customer service is available 24x7 providing high reliability and best performance.

Typepad also offers premium service to the users. A Pro Level Account costs $14.95 per month or $149.40 per year. Multiple authors can co-function to place posts on unlimited blogs. The professionally designed themes can be changed by editing the blog’s style sheet. Users can go on a creative stir with the help of Typepad’s Advanced Template language. 1 GB of storage space and 10 GB of bandwidth are provided per month.

Types of Account

A Plus Level account costs $8.95 per month or $89.50 per year, one author can maintain up to three blogs. This account is provided with 500 MB of storage and 5 GB of bandwidth per month. Pro and Plus Level accounts offers features such as customizing the colors, borders, fonts, and header image of the blogs.

A Basic Level account allows one author to host one blog on his domain for $ 4.95 per month or $49.50 per year. There are many professional templates available to choose from. This account is most appropriate for personal use and can be used to post links, pictures or to broadcast news. With a storage space of 100 MB and bandwidth of 2 GB, it is more than enough for an individual user to reach family and friends.

Business Class – This account is targeted for the business oriented class. A group of an organization can maintain multiple blogs. The price is depends on many factors and hence, is not fixed.

POPULAR BLOGS

Many of the blogs hosted by this site have made a mark for themselves. Few of them are:

CareerBuilder Work Life Blog

Scott Adam’s Dilbert Blog

Meg Frost’s Cute Overload Blog

PR veteran Steve Rubel’s Micro Persuasion Blog

Other forums, too, are really life savers. It has great tips about day to day life, like knitting, gardening, etc. Some give updates about the latest deals in stores around town and can help you save money.

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