Which Blogging Platform is Best Blogger or WordPress

Choosing the right blogging platform to use on your blog can be the most important decision you will make before creating your blog. Choosing the right blogging platform can make blogging an easier task to accomplish, but choosing the wrong blogging platform can make the task of blogging a difficult and exhausting experience.

In fact the program that you use to blog with is an essential part of the blogging experience, it is well worth putting in the extra effort to find a platform that provides you with a user friendly interface and allows you to make your blog look professional and very unique. Choosing the perfect blogging platform isn’t always the easiest job to do, but with a little bit of researching it can be done quite effectively.

Determining what your top priorities are whether it be ease of use or customization. The Most popular blogging platforms that are used most often today are Blogger and WordPress.

Lets compare the Pros and Cons of using Blogger and Wordpress blogging platforms.

Blogger.com
http://www.blogger.com

Blogger is probably the most well-known running blogging service on the web, please correct me if I’m incorrect, It was established by United states business owner Evan Williams who also happens to be the designer of Twitter. Perhaps surprisingly enough Evan Williams also developed the phrase ‘blogger’. Blogger also generally known as BlogSpot is now owned and operated by The search engine giant "Google" and has been since 2003 and is used by an incredible number of blog owners of all stages from around the world.

Google`s Blogger platform has an incredibly simple to use foundation which is why it draws many customers. Beginners are attracted to blogger because it’s relatively simple to create, add articles to and profit with AdSense and Amazon associates.

Users are able to use their own website address and change the look of their blog to how they want it to look.

However unfortunately even with the new latest up-dates and upgrades created to the blogger dashboard panel, it still does not have the resources and functions that WordPress has to provide. Ok so here is a explanation of the pros and cons of using blogger as a start-up platform for your site. 

 PROS: 

It’s Free

It’s simple to create and use

Available in 50 languages

You can buy or transfer your own custom domain to your blogger blog for free

You get You get built in visitor statistics

It’s simple to profit with AdSense, Infolinks and Amazon Associates

Blogger is owned and operated by Google

You can somewhat personalize with built in blogger themes

 CONS: 

Restricted top quality themes

Although you can, it’s not that simple to personalize styles unless you are acquainted with HTML and CSS

Leaving comments function is a bit of a let down at times

Spam filter has no modifying features

Expandability limited without use of plugins

Some people find it difficult to view a BlogSpot blog as an established and professional blog

BlogSpot blogs have well known protection concerns, online thieves still love hacking into Blogger blogs.

WordPress.com
http://www.wordpress.com

WordPress was established by internet social media entrepreneur Matt Mullenweg in 2003. WordPress.com alone is home to around 360,000 blog owners.

WordPress.com has become highly preferred because of both its complexity and ease of use, and continues to be one of the most highly effective no cost organized running blog platforms on the web.

 PROS: 

It’s almost free

Amazing and eye-catching dashboard that is simple to get around around

Simple to use, no programming understanding required…

Available in 120 languages

Theme editor available (paid service)

Built in visitor statistics

Options for SEO

Accessible anywhere

Buy your own domain or transfer (paid upgrade)

Strong spam filtering and comment moderating process

 CONS: 
Too many paid for options/upgrades required

No third party programs permitted, that implies no AdSense, Infolinks or Chitika…

Design and style editing is not free

WordPress use their own WordAds program which you can use to monetize your site, if your site qualified that is…

Blogger provides 1GB of picture web host area offered through Picasa web albums while WordPress customers can get up to 3GB plus more on upgrade.

So which blogging foundation should you use use, Blogger or WordPress? It’s a challenging one as I see both systems are excellent in their own areas. I would actually be more equipped to use WordPress.com even though there are additional costs and limitations with monetizing your blog. I’d select WordPress because it provides more alternatives for expandability, but the choice is really up to the blogger themselves to choose what blogging platform suites his or her needs best. 

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