Why Blogger is better than Wordpress ?

This is a Guest Post written by Navjot Singh. If you wish to write for EAB, check out this page - Write For Us. Most of the times, we see that many bloggers are blog on Wordpress! Even me. But why? We know that Wordpress is better than Blogspot. The reason being, its features like more flexibility, less coding, high end features, a much better interface for multi-author blogs. But, there are many things for which Blogger is better than Wordpress.

HOSTING

If we are going for Wordpress, then we need a self hosted blog and for that, we will need to pay for hosting every month or year. But in case if you choose blogger.com you don't need to pay for any hosting charges. Your blog is fully hosted on Google and if you go with Wordpress (self hosted), well you need to buy a custom domain as well. But, in case of blogger you get your own xxx.blogspot.com and meanwhile, your Wordpress blog is hosted on other company servers where we don't get a 100% up-time, but in case of Blogger you get 100% up-time. Just think about this for second- can Google go down?

HUGE AMOUNT OF THEMES (FREE)

Well, after Google launched it's XML powered themes function, many themes have been developed and most of them are available for free where as most of the Wordpress themes are paid ones. Well, we can take Mukund's My World template which is highly customizable and we just need a little knowledge about html and xml and you are ready to go. Most of the templates listed on Mukund's blog are SEO Optimized & multi-author optimized. So, what more you need?

BETTER FOR NEWBIES

Even when I started my blogging, I started with a blogspot domain because it's simple and easy to use. The interface helps the newbies to understand what blogging is... When it comes to understanding, Blogger will defeat Wordpress in straight sets. You can play a lot with the codes. Most important factor is that you don't need to invest anything. You just start out blogging and after that when you really want to become professional, you can choose Wordpress!

But, I would truly say that when I first saw "EAB - www.newbloggingtipz.com" I thought that it's a Wordpress blog run on Thesis theme. But when I came to know that this blog is hosted on blogger with a custom domain, I was amazed. It shows that how customizable Blogspot blogs can be! So you can choose Blogspot as your main blogging platform too. What actually matters - your content and a better design!!!

MORE AND MORE NEW FEATURES

Blogger has started to introduce many features. The first being - xml driven blog, then a new template editor and now, there is a big change that will soon come into effect. The whole blogspot.com interface will be changed to new look, and that will be really awesome. Take a look at the video below:

We can conclude that we CAN opt Blogspot as our main blogging platform too. It can be easily edited to match with that of the Wordpress features and the dashboard look, well, it's soon gonna change. So, be it blogger or wordpress, enjoy what you do - blogging!!!

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N.One said on March 26, 2011 at 3:06 PM :

yeah,I like blogger because it's free and easy to use

Hassam Ahmad said on March 27, 2011 at 2:10 AM :

Yeah i always prefered blogger because of its free hosting. Even if i get my own domain ill be geting this awesome 100% uptime hosting.

Gr8

Navjot Singh said on March 28, 2011 at 2:36 PM :

@N.One Thanks for your comment :)

Navjot Singh said on March 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM :

@Hassam Ahmad

You are absolutely correct! Blogger is just awesome because of it's features!

job vacancies said on April 5, 2011 at 5:42 AM :

For me. I prefer blogger to wordpress because it seems lighter and free to use.

Sharron said on April 17, 2011 at 9:46 PM :

OK; so if Blogger is so great, why are none of the professional bloggers using it? Here are a few of the reasons why: -

It's not possible to properly commercialise a Blogger blog. - That means if you want to make any decent money with it > more than pocket-money > you're scuppered from the start.

Blogger blogs are owned by Google, not the author/person who THINKS they own it. Google could pull the Blogger blog at any time for any or no reason.

Blogger blog URLs look unprofessional and it's well known that they're free. Any entrepreneur who can't even be bothered to pay a tiny premium for their own domain surely can't honestly be serious about making money!

...But on the positive side >--

Blogger blogs are great for hobby bloggers and other bloggers who don't want to make any money online.

Pundit Commentator said on May 1, 2011 at 11:18 AM :

I'm only 6 weeks old in this world and I'm very happy with Blogger. I installed my first customized template 3 days ago and I even managed to fiddle around with it. Very scary stuff when you've never seen any coding whatsoever before.

Gian Faye said on May 28, 2011 at 5:26 PM :

I also don't have plans to switch to a self-hosted Wordpress blog as I find the Blogger community more fun than the serious type folks using Wordpress.

Anonymous

I hear a lot about Blogger shutting down people's blog
without any warning. How do we protect against that?
And, are we allowed to use ads or affiliate links
on Blogger?

Mukund said on June 5, 2011 at 9:56 AM :

@Anonymous: I'm not sure about that! I feel they reject those blogs because they do not produce unique original content. Yes! You can use your affiliate links!

Mohammad

@Sharron
I am not agree Blogger blogs look unprofessional(not inducing default templates) you just need good test for template.
and i don't think you try blogger for making money.
and Google is not a stupid just close your blog anytime without reason and professional bloggers using WordPress it's same as MAC thing, people think all professionals using MAC such as in film studios,but now 80% film studios using Windows.and other reason professionals using WordPress when they going to make blog for company or for other thing they saw old company's have blog on WordPress so they also chose WordPress i know many company's and organisations blogs who using blogspot blogs i don't know links allowed here or not otherwise i give you links and as i see blogger is for advance users and WordPress is so easy to use and easy to install plugins.in blogger Google just give you like empty place now it's upto how you made your blog.and in my opinion WordPress is MAC you need money even for little thing and Blogger is Windows you have thousands of free templates hundreds of free widgets and many other things.
sorry for bad english

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