Watch your stats, promote your blog and make money with TypePad, a Six Apart product. Our “TopTenREVIEWS Silver Award” winner is cheap, at less than $5 per month for the basic membership, yet TypePad offers advanced tools like statistics, word banning, text file uploads and you can publish an About page.
Typepad is a good tool for bloggers that are looking for exposure; this service can submit your blog to Google, Technorati, FeedBurner and more. If you want to keep your blog private they also support private and password protected blogs. Unlike many free blogs, TypePad does not put ads on your site unless you request them.
This service is comparable to WordPress, but doesn’t obtain the number one spot, because it is not free and they offer few customization features without upgrading to their Pro package.
TypePad offers few template options without an upgrade but posting is easy and straightforward. It has a text editor as well as an HTML editor with a preview. You can easily insert images, links, files or an email link. Inserting an image and changing its properties is simple.
They offer more layouts than most, four standard and four mixed media layouts that support photos, text, video and audio entries. It also has more sidebar options than most, including photo albums, subscribe links, podcast links, category clouds and a variety of third party widgets.
The element we did not like about TypePad is that you have to upgrade to submit unique templates or to change the code of the templates.
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