Introduction:
This post will illustrate different types of features of the most popular platforms for blogging, such as Blogger and WordPress.There are also other platforms other than mentioned in this posts, that are Joomla,Tumblr, Drupal. But we will stuck with the most popular's.we will give you suggestions and advice's to decide which one to select and use, if you are confused which one to choose for blogging. this post will clear all the confusions.Before we introduce the features of the both platforms, let's differentiate the main differences.
Starting a Blog
Blogger: Creating a blog on Blogger is one of the most easiest things you can do on the Internet. You don't need any kind of technical knowledge, its more simple than creating your email address. You can create a blogspot blog within 10 seconds, this is the reason newbie bloggers prefer Blogger as their blogging platform.
WordPress: There are two ways to create a WordPress blog, by creating a free blog on WordPress.com or purchasing web hosting and installing WordPress. Through out this comparison, We will be comparing Blogger with Self-hosted WordPress blog. Starting a self-hosted WordPress blog requires a lots of technical knowledge to buy and manage a domain name, purchasing reliable web hosting, a credit card for purchasing domains and hosting, installing WordPress, managing with blog with sufficient plugins etc. This is the main reason why most of bloggers does not support WordPress however it is not that complicated, you can learn these things within few hours from Internet.
Customization, Flexibility and SEO (main concern)
Blogger: Blogger templates are also available on Internet, free and premium both. You can even make changes in your template using built-in "Blogger Template Designer". You can hire a designer who have sufficient knowledge to design a completely new Blogger template. Blogger, officially has no plugins however you can find many hacks and tricks to use your free Blogger blog like Paid Wordpress blog. Its not much difficult to implement hacks and tricks into your blogger template, however the lack of official support of flexibility decreases the possibilities to make your blog better. And
Blogger allows you manage permalinks, robots.txt file, redirecting blog URLs, making a custom 404 error page, however Blogger lacks in providing more SEO options. However, Google indexes Blogger blogs much faster than WordPress blogs. Google understands how Blogger works so they dont need much of your SEO efforts to rank your blog in search results.
WordPress: WordPress is popular for offering large number of customization possibilities. You can choose your blog theme from thousands of free available themes. Designers and Developers can even create a WordPress template by their own. WordPress plugins allows you to perform your desired tasks on your blog. You install suitable plugins from WordPress plugins directory where you will find thousands of free plugins to choose from. WordPress allows you to stick posts and with the help of plugins, you can control where to display ads, where not to display some widgets, what to display in your blog feed etc.And wordPress is widely popular for being so SEO friendly. You get everything for better SEO in WordPress blogging platform. You get huge number of plugins to optimize each and every bit of your blog. These plugins can automatically link post keywords to older posts, suggest yo backlinks and help you in on-page SEO.
Problems You may Face (Security Aspects)
Blogger: Google controls your contents. Their team can delete your blog contents, can even delete your complete blog. They do allow you to take backups of your blog however if ones they deleted your blog, You loose your blog address, that means your blog is ruined. Your can be treated as SPAM even you completely follow the terms and condition of Blogger. The good thing about Blogger is, you don't have to worry about DDOS attacks and hackers. ( you should Read instructions before doing any thing which may cause to loose your blog.
WordPress: WordPress gives you relatively better security. Latest updates of WordPress versions keep on securing your blog with latest security features. You are not bound to post stuff. You can post whatever you want. WordPress never deletes your post, never set any of your published article into draft. Your web host will even keep backups of your work so that you can get your back if you accidentally loose. Important, if you are not an expert, DDOS and such attacks can be a trouble for your blog.
Making money
Blogger: Blogger also allows you to make money by placing Google Ads or ads by other networks. Blogger also offers you built-in Amazon affiliate network.
WordPress: Self-hosted WordPress allows you place all kind of affiliates links and ad codes. You can make as much money as you can. However free WordPress blogs does not allow you place Google AdSense or even javascripts.
Decision Which we have Taken:
- Blogger is almost Free, You can Create Your Blog Free
- WordPress is Free only if you do not want advance features of it. .
- Compared to WordPress, Blogger is very easy,
- if you have't enough Money then Blogger is the good decision.
- If you want Elegant and awesome Design (with charges). then it's worth to use WordPress.
- WordPress gives you full Control over your Site(with cmoney). while Blogger do not.
- WordPress provide you storage with FTP support. while Blogger does not(only 1 GB for images and videos).
Now it your Turn to choose and start
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