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BLOGSPOT or WORDPRESS?
Posted by helmjpt • 6/26/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Tags: blogging, blogspot, domain, wordpress
I have kept an active blog (jerometarriela.blogspot.com) for a year. And I really love it. Since then I saw this Wordpress thing and honestly, It makes me wow. Now I am just wondering of switching from blogspot to wordpress. It feels sad to leave my past/ my very first blog on blogspot since it already making waves and pageranks.
I need some advice. What will you choose?..
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blogspot is better -
Both are different and special in their own way so Iam using both. In term of customization I think Word. is prefered. And I think Blogspot get crawled faster in google search. -
Love to know about Typad and Joomla and more
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ur working on a new theme so its nice
if u have a domain its beeter no doubt, but i have all my blogs on blogger
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I used to run classes a few years ago on Blogspot, I gave up on it. A lot of people like it, I prefer wordpress because Blogger was a bit of a dogger and would fall over on me. -
perhaps i should try one of my future projects on wordpress n see how it goes
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maybe. Blogspot was so clunky. I found students had a lot of trouble with it. Wordpress is more use friendly from a teaching point of view
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Try teaching it in a classroom to 15 people at a time a few days a week and you'll understand.
Everything starts to change when you are put on the spot and have to problem solve 16 computers at once. If you're sitting at home frigging around in your own time it may not matter. Wordpress is far superior software in an environment with a group of people where you are expected to meet outcomes. -
There are however a few little SEO tricks you can do with Blogger that I haven't been able to duplicate with WP, but it's not worth the time
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thanks for the advice. you sure a help.
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blogspot is waaayyy bettaa!! -
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here we go again... blogger: good for starters and for people who want to get some cash for 0 money. (you cannot put ads on your wordpress.com free blog)
However, for those who have an own website and have wordpress, you know what real blogging is. Wordpress is the next step and you gotta be more html and web savy but it is much ... way much better -
WordPress!!! WordPress has more functionality with there
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I like the free wordpress service (wordpress.com) better than Blogger, but that's me. Blogger will let you manipulate your template without charging you for the privilege, and they'll let you use javascript and ads.
The enthusiastic response by Teck above is probably all about self-hosted blogs using software from wordpress.org, which doesn't have the restrictions I talk about, but which costs you money.
It's really easy to import Blogger blogs with Wordpress.com, though I notice my comments lost their URLs, so I've been stuck adding them back slowly, at least for the more important posts and regular commenters.-
@Mark, Nope I wasn't referring to wordpress.org I meant wordpress.com
I have two blogs hosted on wordpress.com... -
Out of curiosity, why do you like wordpress.com better than Blogger? I use wp.com and have used blogger in the past, and don't personally see any huge advantages one way or another. -
I like the look and feel better. I like the way they have tags and categories, where Blogger just has the latter (called labels). I like the way the tagging and categories also feed into a universal tag system on Wordpress, which acts like a giant social network of its own. You click on a tag and find other blogs using that tag too. I get a lot of traffic that way. I like the comment and spam handing better too. And I like how you can add extra pages to your blog for more static content.
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I do agree with the fact that Wordpress is customizable compared to Blogger. I don't have a blog at wordpress but most of my fave blogs are on wordpress, so...
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The tag cloud... Dang! I'm gonna make a wordpress blog now. Wordpress should pay people creating discussions to their benefit. Seriously.
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It's down to personal preference and what you want out of your blog and where you want to go with it to a certain extent.
I use wordpress.com and am very pleased with it. I never had or have any intention to monetise my blog and as a happy side effect, have had quite a lot of traffic from wordpress.com by being featured on their front page a few times! -
Wordpress is BETTER... More freedom, nice layout and great widgets... Apple Loves Wordpress! -
I stopped using Blogspot about a year or so ago because Google changed the login system, and I was locked out of my account due to a stupid glitch. Not going to fall for the "which is better" trap...
But I have come across more slow loading and tacky looking Blogspot pages than slow loading and tacky Wordpress pages. Not saying Blogspot is garbage, but some of the people who use it make garbage blogs. -
Couple of the main reasons I like wordpress.com is because
the wordpress staff implemented Site maps, Possibly Related Links,
and Google Gears, which when you download Google Gears it speeds
up you're admin panel...
Related links
XML Site maps,
en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/xml-sitemaps/
Possibly Related Links,
en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/possibly-an-announcement/
Google Gears,
en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=30696&replies=24#post-219995
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I didn't know about the site maps, but I have noticed that Google picks up my posts really fast. The tagging feature doesn't hurt in that department, I should think.
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@Teck
I'm playing devil's advocate here because I've been around long enough to see a lot of stuff that you have yet to detect or that you never will detect.
(1) The introduction of site maps was due to the fact that we have been complaining for years about not being able to access our meta data. Bloggers on other platforms could have them but and we couldn't. My response is: "What took you so long?"
(2) Possibly related links are a nightmare. They are auto-generated and most are not even related at all. We did not get what the community asked for. We wanted "related links" from our own blog only to appear at the end of our posts. We got probably not related posts that send those readers who click them sailing off of our blogs to another blog. FWIW I've been doing "related links" to posts on my own blog at the end of every post manually for over a year and IMO the auto-generated "possibly related links" are crap.
(3) Google gears will be used by a minority of bloggers -- big deal.
Previous to the upgrade I recommended wordpress.com to those who have never blogged before. Since the upgrade I do not make that recommendation. Wordpress software is superior to Blogger but it's *NOT* easier to learn how to use.
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Blogspot is better for those who are firstimers because it was so easy to use unlike wordpress. Wordpress are for advance bloggers only because there are so many things to do unlike blogspot.-
You might have a point there. The interface on Blogger is much simpler.
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Blogspot hands down! -
As always it depends on your needs. Our blogging concept ( theyshootmusic.at ) wouldn't work with Wordpress or Blogspot.
Learn to write code and build you own blog-software ... it's fun and you can customize all you want
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hello, for me i use joomla and it's very good more than wordpress because i used it but i didn't like it "that's my opinion" . -
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I have blogs in both platform. Just come to have a look what are the differences...
www.nakedozone.com in Blogspot.com
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I use both, and both have their own pros and cons. My Wordpress blog is on my own domain so it does mean i have to install my own addins etc, but the end result is fantastic and I really like the degree of customisation and flexibility that I have on wordpress. Blogger has the advantage (I think so but may be wrong) of being picked up more quickly by search engines especially google. Blogger is also far easier for first time bloggers and I love how easy it is to add 3rd party scripts etc. -
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Blogspot is best...Its easy to upload videos add html etc..
cricket-clips.blogspot.com/
wantbeautytips.blogspot.com/
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If I had to choose between WordPress or Blogger, I would have to say that WordPress wins. The only REAL advantage that Blogger has over WordPress is that you can edit the template as you wish and that you can litter your blog with ads and scripts. As to being picked up by Google, my experience is that WordPress blogs tend to be indexed faster. One powerful feature that WordPress has over Blogger are the post tags, while Blogger only has categories (or "labels" as it is called there). -
I'm too new to this blogging thing to have an opinion right now but since I keep seeing this dicussion I started a second blog using wordpress to see if I like it or not.
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yeah thats a point on wordpress. thanks for all who participate in this discussion ive created. I hope you could visit my blog in BLOGGER platform
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opinions comments suggestions.... keep comin!...
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Having used both: Wordpress, especially if you host your own. Blogspot is definately easier to use since all you have to do is sign-up and blog - but when it comes to having things look and feel exactly how you want it, Wordpress is jut that much better. On top of that, Wordpress is opensource so you can hack into it and do whatever you want with it.
In regaurds to being picked up faster in Google, Wordpress definately wins for me. It takes less than 24 hours for alot of my articles/posts to find their way into Google.
And if you do switch over to wordpress, keeping your blogs is really easy. You can import all your blogs from Blogspot straight into your Wordpress database :] -
I love wordpress, but I am self-hosted. I make the equivalent wordpress and blogspot blog addresses to link to my domain to help search engine rankings, prevent brand theft, and find more readers.
example: you own www.domain.com as a blog. You then create domain.blogspot.com and domain.wordpress.com to keep content related and prevent those darn cyber blog-squatters!
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I have blogs on both platforms. They both have their moments. What I like about Blogger is that it's fast and simple. And with Wordpress it's the way you can shape your blog with plugins etc. If i have to declare a winner I would have to say Wordpress (.org that is).
Blogger: gahlon.blogspot.com
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wordpress, more template options, if you dont like template options you can customize with css which provides more options. more professional looking blogs over at wordpress, but they dont have to look that professional just check mines out, www.sensico.wordpress.com
I also use blogspot as an aggregate site that directs to my blog. both are still great, but you have more potential to get seen on google search engine with wordpress. Just put in phrase "obama olympic ad" or "edwards with love child" Im third listed on the google search engine. Obviously you would also have to be good with tagging also. Also, you get great stats information so you can know what search engine phrases people are using to get to your site. Also which posts are the most popular and how many hits they get.
Also with wordpress you have the benefit of being in a community, so they have blog posts of the day, top political blog posts and other types of blog categories, which get a lot of hits even if your blog isnt that well known of a blog.
Wordpress.org is great, but using wordpress.com is free and to customize it is only $15 a year.
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I should probably add that your feedjit livefeed widget wont work on wordpress.com in order to use it you would have to pay and get a wordpress.org blog. Some widgets dont work on wordpress.com (free blogs) to prevent spamming. self-hosted wordpress.org blogs are fine though.
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Wordpress. I was done with Blogspot after 8 months. -
Use both. Keep your bloggger blog and start a Wordpress one. Then decide which one you want to be your primary blog and link the other one to it. Then start a third blog and repeat the process. That way you'll increase your online foot print and gather increasing amounts of traffic.
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i like blogspot, but if i could go back & do it over, i would choose wordpress. WP offers a huge array of plug ins you can use... blogspot is more user-friendly, but not by much.
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Would like blogspot, for two reasons. Most of my blogs are in blogspot, and blogspot is totally indexed and therefore fully searchable by google. At least that is my observation. I may be wrong. This does not mean, wordpress, or other blogging sites are less important, or not indexed. -
On Wordpress I seemed to receive lots more hits. I'm doing the same kind of writing on Blogspot, but the activity is much lower. Why do you think that might be?
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WordPress has better built in SEO, which makes it rank high in Google. At least that's my experience.
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Thanks JH, I figured that. How can I improve my Blogspot SEO? Is there a line of HTML I can add to the code? It would have to be a simple copy and paste for me to handle it.
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Mike, it's a lot more than just adding a line of HTML. It's about structuring and designing your whole blog and using the "right" keywords in your title, in your posts and in your image titles and captions and in your categories and tags. There's no simple trick, regardless of what all SEO-sites try to tell you, it's hard work. Hard in the sense that you have to pay attention to every detail on your blog.
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Blogspot is easy but wordpress is OK. -
Even though I have used wordpress very little as compared to blogspot, I would say that wordpress has a better appearance and seems better but blogspot is much easier to understand. -
I just switched from Blogspot to WordPress. Each has its advantages and disadvantages. -
I just spent about 4 hours trying to fix my blog on wordpress but i still couldn't get what I wanted especially the theme. As it is, both has its advantages and disadvantages. Here's my blog on blogger.
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As far as the templates are concerned , my vote goes to wordpress . -
Wordpress wins. If only I can import my blogger blog to wordpress... TskTsk...
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