[The Debate Continues...]
There have been always a debate on this matter.
Which is better, Blogger or WordPress.org?
The question is still unanswerable because WordPress blogs are increasing and so as the blogspot blogs.
Both are top platforms and are developing and advancing day by day…
- WordPress fixes their bugs in every new version and blogger adds new features occasionally. Sometime ago WordPress was updated to version 3.5 and this made their blogs more secure and customizable.
- Again, Blogger added features like robots.txt, meta description, no-follow and no-index commands etc.. to optimize blogs for search engines.
Development is going on and growth is on its way. It’s not that a blogger can make good revenue with only WordPress, as many are making good money from blogger too..
What I think is…
Success don’t depend on the platform you choose but on what you do.
Your earning depends only on your works, your writing and hard work. Wherever you’re working, work hard with originality and success is for sure.
Still, to get a clear picture of the two platforms I’ll provide the newbies with some points showing the difference between Blogger & WordPress, so that they can select anyone of them.
Points About Blogger.
1. Easy to understand and work with, especially for newbie bloggers.
2. Provides a gadgets/plugins store but you can’t get all what you want without going for a search in sites like bloggerplugins. They have a good collection of plugins for blogger blogs.
3. Provides cool templates as well as awesome dynamic views, but for more templates explore sites like splashytemplates or bloggerthemes.
4. Fast to work even in slow net speed like GPRS and low bandwidth dial-up.
5. Unless you know the other bloggers personally you can’t allow them to blog on yours as Blogger don’t has a guest blogging feature.
6. Blogger requires less investment and less technical knowledge as it doesn’t require any hosting. You don’t need to spent money for hosting, you just need to buy a domain name from sites like GoDaddy and pay a very less amount yearly.
7. If you need to change your blog template in blogger, then all your previously made customizations and hacks/coding with the template ‘ll get removed.
8. Blogger is a secured platform and thus the blogspot blogs are rarely hacked.
Points about WordPress.
1. A little time is needed to get adjust with WordPress.
2. Has a huge plugins store with every need.You just need to search for what you want.
3. Provide a great range of free templates in the templates store but don’t provide dynamic views.
4. WordPress requires a certain net speed to work with.You can’t operate it nicely in slow speed.
5. You can make your blog a guest blog so that other bloggers can come and write on yours.
6. Self hosted WordPress blogs require more investment & technical efforts as they require hosting facilities. So you need to spent money for hosting on sites like HostGator, every month or every year.
7. Your template customizations and coding can be backed up, so that when you switch to a new template you don’t require to work once again on ‘em.
8. WordPress is also a safe platform but the no. of hacking reports are more here. You need to take some security measures to save your blog from hackers.
I’ve not mentioned the threaded comments point as it is available in both the platforms now. I’ve also not mentioned much about SEO because both the platforms work well in Search Engines. It all depends on your link building and keyword research works. And I’ve not talked about Adsense integration as well, that is also easy in both. Blogger has Adsense options in dashboard and in WP you can install plugins like “Easy Adsense Lite” or” Quick Adsense” to do the work easily…
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Finally I want to say that, you don’t need to think much about platform because if you’re correct then everything is. Just go on with white-hat techniques, don’t take help from cheap and link-buying programs, work on how to get natural linking (e.g: from guest blogs & article directories) and enjoy your blogging journey..
Hope the post helped you to make a good decision. If you liked my it then do share and comment below about the platform you would select.
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Well, i prefer blogger over wp,as blogger is very “human – friendly” and adding widgets or customizing html is way better than wp
hmm.. from your point, blogger will be great for newbies.
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Thanks Avi for this information, here i am also agree with Abihijit’s point. Blogger is best for Newbies after 6-7 months they can transfer into wordpress. But according to my point of view Blogger is safer then WordPress because from past some time we are notice that Brute Force attack on WordPress but Blogger is under secure by Google so it is safe for working. On other side wordpress provides us awesome interface od working
. I am really confused can you suggest me something?
I’ve mentioned about this things in my article. Now you choose what you want.
If you stay safe then you’re secured. If you know customization then you can get pro look in any of them.
Agree with you, WordPress is also friendly. There are a lot of plugins available to use in WordPress.
But for sure you cant edit blogger templates the way you want..
In matter of flexible theme editing WP is a winner.
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Hi Avi,
I have used both Blogger and WordPress. My personal opinion is, WodPress is better than Blogger(Specially if you have some knowledge about PHP)
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And who don’t know PHP? I think WP is not hard, it just takes some time to get comfortable with it.
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No bro, there is no need to know PHP for using WordPress, WordPress has so many plugins that help to do the specific work.
Agree, in WordPress you can make quite a good amount of change if you know PHP.
I am on Blogspot and i am happy top be on that,and will be on blogspot only
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Great to know that you’re loving it.
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Will love to hear your experience when you visited my blog.I mean what you like the most and what you not liked ?
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Sure. I’ll share with you…
I was on blogspot for two years and they deleted my blog for no reason. Just keep in mind that being on blogger you may be sacrificing your future security for nothing..
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Don’t forget you can completely back up your blog to your desktop to ensure that if it is deleted you can just load it back up!
Blogger is good to use, but you have to use Wordpres if you want more optimization over your blog.
It might by only due to one reason that is you never tried wordpress.
Try it once and you will love it forever.
WP is the best platform as there are huge collection of useful plugins and themes as compared to Blogger. Blogger is good in eyes of Google but if SEO is done properly in your WP blog, you can pass blogger too.
I don’t have much knowledge of PHP but still it is very easy to use.
I will surely recommend WP.org.
But if you dont want to spend on domain and hosting, Blogger is best over wordpress.org…
I hope your review helps other readers over here…
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No bro, google loves SEO optimized blog only. There is no fact about using Blogging or WordPress if your blog is well optimized you can get Rank.
Hi Avi, I think every blogger should have at least one of each. I have 2 WordPress blogs and 3 Blogger blogs and I see no reason we should need to pick one over the other. Just blog!!
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Yah Mam. And that’s what I mentioned in this article. Work matters not the platform. BTW, thanks for taking out sometime and commenting on my article…
I have been using WordPress for quite a long time. And I am in love with it. Best thing is you can find thousands of plugins and themes to enhance your blog to the next level. Thanks for your in-depth discussion on these blogging platform.
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Yup, WP has a big store of everything you want…
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It does have plugins but how many plugins can you use, maximum 20 or 30 if more then your site goes slow or your shared host kicks you out
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I’m currently on wordpress but am considering moving across to blogger – this may be a case of “the grass is greener” but as a beauty blogger I think you have a higher chance of people coming across your blog on blogger due to features such as “next blog navigation”.
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hmm. yah, i too like that feature, again blogger has some features like Adsense integration, which is more easier over there.
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That feature is useful and interesting, but most of the blogger user’s keep it off to make their blog more professional.
But bro most of the bloggers don’t use and they try to remove it as a way to make it look even professional as @kulwinder has stated.
Your point that they each have some benefits is worth a revisit to blogger.com where I started and then moved over to WordPress. I’ve been considering some personal, as opposed to business, blogging and blogger might be able to fit that need for me.
Thanks for a great review post!
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You’re welcome Mam. I too used Blogger and later shifted to WP as at that time Blogger didn’t had the important features. But time has changed now. Blogger has all the important and most essential fetures now.
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Blogger is good for beginner to understand everything. We don’t need any Hosting plan or domain to start a blogger blogs. WordPress.com is available but we can’t add ads on it. I prefer blogger for all. Now blogger is more advanced that previous version. Blogger has some disadvantages – Theme ,Widgets like WordPress.
WordPress is good for pro bloggers but ordinary bloggers who take it as a side business i prefer only Blogger. No worry about hacking , changing Hosting plans, No over traffic problems..
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I too sugest the same to the newbies, Blogger. But the links I mentioned above can help Blogger users to get a plugin + themes store.
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Agree with you bro, every new blogger should try Blogger, by using this can learn basic things about a blog and SEO.
When I was new to blogging firstly I started a free blog on blogger.com to check my work and time for blogging, I mean to find out if I am proper enough or not with blogging. Then after regular work I noticed the heights reaching with good interval of time. Not much but satisfactory time.
Then I bought the domain and hosting and started with a new point. But now I found that both are equal in their own. I give 51% for WordPress (just because of good templates and plugins) and 49% to Blogger as we have to do manual editing for everything.
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Hmm. thanks for sharing your view. But I give 50 to both as none can determine your success, only you and your work determine your success, but not the platform.
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IN the area of Templates Blogger is good, because you can easily customize the template according to your needs. In wordpress you can’t modify any changes in the template or theme easily.
Hey,
Excellent post. I think that wordpress is better then blogger, WordPress has more options then blogger and wordpress has a lot of plugins !
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Wonderful post. I have been using wordpress for last four years and I think wordpress is better than blogger.
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Please share the reason why you like WP over Blogger…
For newbies specially, blogger is very easy to get started with. Also blogger blogs get indexed very soon as compared to WordPress. On the otherhand, WP has a lot of plugins. However Nice Post ! Which one u like?
This is main point bro, i have seen that blogs on blogger get indexed very fast as compared to wordpress blogs.
Blogger is good to start a blogging career, but I feel both are good to use.
Wow excellent post bro .I am so happy with my blogspot blog. I don’t why so many professional bloggers suggested me to migrate to wordpress.
Simply “WordPress is WordPress”. No competition of WordPress and blogger. Well I do run my blog on WordPress but that’s not the reason I’m with WordPress.
The reason is basic because Blogger don’t have any plugins or any other pro themes etc but WordPress is full of that and that really helps for newbie bloggers who are not that much good in editing HTML and codings etc.
So simply I’m with WordPress.
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Same here, plugins are something that make WordPress stand out, there is almost a plugin available for everything you like to add to your blog.
Im torn between both currently I have a free blog on wordpress.com but im thinking of heading over to blogger, wordpress.com doesnt give you the freedom of paypal buy now and adsense without having to pay, i will surely miss the gorgeous layout though but when you trying to start a business via your blog and not trying to spend loads of cash blogger wins.. in my humble and new to blogging world opinion.
Well i have used blogger. Infact i switched from blogger to wordpress and i am completely satisfied with wordpress.
Wordpress is true winner in sense of ease of use, flexibility, etc.
My vote goes to wordpress.
Actually there has to be no question like such.
Wordpress wins anyways. More themes more plugins easy to use software base.
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And great support, you can ask almost anything and once in while someone might answer your Query.
I was blogging on free blogspot platform for over two years. One fine morning they deleted my blog for spam, I got it back after a month but lost all my traffic and google author rank, so with blogger platform they control you. Your site and future is not something that you should give to blogger to play around with.
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Bro it might be due to some work that you may have done
Why should they simply delete one’s blog in a fine morning
i think for new user blogger would be more comfortable to use as it is easy and user friendly as compared to word press but after some time they should switch there account to word press as i am also going to this
Toughest question. but for newbies BLOGGER good to startup with to learn some basics and earn a little
Then move to Worpdress and rock !
Agree with you bro
I would suggest any Newbies to use or start with Blogger and then when he reach at a height and learn about blogging he can easily switch to use the WordPress !!
In fact, I used both the blogger and WordPress. Loved the flexibility of both Blogger and WordPress. Cool Post
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Hi Avi Jit,
Really a nice post…!
I personally feel blogger works well for newbies as we need to spend only for the domain. And we need not to worry about the downtime and bandwidth. Apart from that its secured. We can make guest post available using third part contact forms like foxy forms, EMF contact forms. Main part is its instant and their is not much need for customization’s from coding part for newbies. And I feel wordpress works well for techie and it can be used both as a dynamic and static site, in addition to that lot of plugins are available for free. Blogger lack that option of using it as a static site. While using wordpress we have to concerned about downtime, resource limit etc… But blogger is worry free.
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I’ve used both blogger and wordpress and what i feel now is that blogger has all the options that wordpress has and its only fair if one wants to use blogger.
If you are a newbie go with blogger but if you want more functionality the you need to try WordPress. For me plugins are something plugins something that really make WordPress stand out.
the winner is yoast the creator of the seo plugin for wordpress, because the man in the picture reminds me totally of him haha.. ^^
Well balanced article Avi…While blogger best suits for those who blog for a hobby while starting self hosted WordPress shows how seriously you took blogging.So there is no point in comparing both blogging platforms.
WP looks so difficult to master at first. How long would you say it takes to get a good feel for it and to be comfortable using it’s features?
Good conclusion when you mentioned that ‘success’ depends on hard work and quality and original content.
Perhaps you should consider defining ‘success’ in your next blog: how does one measure success in blogging? How can you register success? Rankings, traffic, backlinks and so many parameters. Is it when the cheques starts coming in?
I need to know when to consider my blog successful!
For that you’ve to keep experimenting and checking your analytics. Is your blog growing? So you rank for your keywords? Are you getting high ranks after each update? Success can’t be measured but can be seen. You will know yourself when you achieve success…
Whatever be the cost I will always prefer WordPress because it is more reliable than any other blogger platforms. Blogger stuck with its own limitation however the hosting is free but what if Google ban your blog. So I prefer WordPress always.
I have a WP blog but seriously I love Blogger <3
I am a weeeeee bit biased because I use WordPress every day. I have used Blogger once, and really did not like it very much. I am impressed with people who use Blogger though. My money still rests with WordPress.
I’ve been with Blogger for a while now and frustrated with the limitations of customising my homepage differently to other pages and the general get up. Only problem is it’s already registered with my domain which I LOVE (www,shootingmyjourney.com) and scard if I move to WP I won’t be able to take it with me atleast for another year
Also could someone please explain PHP? Or point me in the direction of a ebook about it? still very new to all this!
Thanks in advance for any replies x Shooting My Journey x
First of all it is all about personal preferences. Someone feels more comfortable with WordPress while others love only Blogger. It is hard to compare these two platform because even having something in common they are completely different
Excellent comparison between these two popular blogging platforms. Well, both these platforms great to get started, however wordpress have more flexibilities and customizations. Maybe, blogger is a good choice for those who are just getting started with blogging and where as wordpress is for those who has some experience in blogging. But, it all depends on self decision on which to choose. Thanks Avi for sharing this info and tweeted
IF you look at the stories of many professional bloggers, we can find that they used Blogspot platform first and then changed to WordPress. From this fact we can conclude this debate
Having used Blogger for techgau.org and WordPress from igau.org, I can safely say that WordPress is miles ahead, be it plugins, features etc, WordPress just rocks!
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