Wordpress or Blogger: What Should I Choose?
The Main Story
Blogger or Wordpress? Which platform should I use? This is the question in many people’s mind. Even though there are many other Blogging platforms like Movable Type, Drupal, LiveJournal most of them prefer to use either Wordpress or Blogger. So I guess it would be enough if we just take Blogger and Wordpress into consideration.
The Geek Things
If you are a newbie and don’t have much technical stuff then I suggest you to use Blogger. Moreover Blogger is completely free. You just need a Gmail ID and few minutes to setup a Blog in Blogger. There are many good things about Blogger when we think of ease of use. You need not know much technology or Programming skills to use Blogger.
If you are a technical geek ( Even I’m not a technical geek but I use Wordpress ;-) ) then you can think of using Wordpress. Wordpress offers many advanced features. There are lots and lots of Wordpress plug-ins which you can use to customize your Blog the way you love. There are many people who are developing many useful plug-ins for Wordpress.
Are there any Good Themes?
When you think of Themes there are only a few themes for Blogger in the initial Days. But now there are more and more themes coming for Blogger also.
Can I Place Advertisements?
If you are planning for Advertisements then you have to go for either Blogger or Hosted Wordpress as Wordpress.com doesn’t allow Advertisements for free accounts. You can take a VIP account if you plan to place advertisements in Wordpress.com. With Blogger you can easily create an Adsense account and integrate with your Blog.
So the Final Thing !
Wordpress is better than Blogger for developers and geeks who want to explore more. But Wordpress.com is really worse than Blogger. Choose Wordpress only when you are planning to set up your own hosting.
In my next post I’ll tell you how to set your own hosting for Wordpress.
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john | July 31st, 2008 at 11:44 pm #
Nice template.. I’m looking for new posts. Please teach me how to earn money from my blog
Mirjam | August 13th, 2008 at 7:46 pm #
… so what are you trying to say, “Wordpress is better than Blogger for developers and geeks who want to explore more. But Wordpress.com is really worse than Blogger.” ?
I´d choose wordpress over blogger anytime, because of all the opportunities it offers, the control you have over your own blog and the ease of use for my visitors, especially when they want to leave comments. Besides, there really is no need to be a geek in order to be able to use wordpress!
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kakashi | August 14th, 2008 at 6:14 am #
Your blog template is cool. I plan to start a wordpress too, but i need a big help. i am looking forward on your next post how to set your own hosting for Wordpress. I wish you show step by step, as i have no knowledge in coding…
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armen | August 16th, 2008 at 5:52 pm #
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Gina | August 23rd, 2008 at 11:59 am #
I use blogger but I’m willing to try wordpress.
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vishnu | September 19th, 2008 at 8:24 pm #
Dear Ur right.. but there is one more thing… If you don’t want the hazzles of maintaining a hosting account.. doing settings in it and so on.. u need blogger..
Pss.. i went wordpress less than a month before and man.. I went through a hell lotta issues so switched back to blogger…
And i think in Google point of view a blogger blog in own domain count more
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Social Bookmarking 2.0 | September 19th, 2008 at 10:45 pm #
Great information! Thanks for writing this. It is an honor to participate in the discussion.