Choose A Reliable Blogging Platform–Comparison of Blogger and Wordpress

Hello Readers, As it is a weekend, I got some free time and I wanted to share a few things with you. A Important phase of blogging career is to choose a reliable blogging platform.If you are one of those confused between different choices, I will help you choose a good blogging platform. I always recommend blogger as a reliable platform. Here are a few suggestions some important features of the two big blog services ‘Blogger’ and ‘Wordpress’.

Blogger or Wordpress ?

Features	Blogger	Wordpress
Ease Of Use	Although Blogger has a nice Post editor, interface to add widgets and more, It lacks the feature of customising widgets. One has to learn HTML to completely customise the whole template .	Wordpress offers easy to use Post editor, A cool and separate interface for adding widgets, Customising theme, Widgets and is a step ahead of Blogger in this matter.
Cost Factor	Fully free of cost! You have to spend on nothing. Free themes, Widgets, Tools and more and everything free of cost !!!	Here comes the main reason why people hate Wordpress. Spend for each and every ‘good quality’ feature. Themes, Widgets, Hosting and plugins. You have to empty your valet for each and every nice quality feature.
Brand Name “Google”	People like Google a lot.Be it whatever service Search engine, Email service, Apps, Browser, and whatever else Google has produced. Everything has its own quality and people favour it	Wordpress offers no other service other than Blogging platform : (. I dont think that it is a hindrance though.
Templates	You literally get thousands of free high quality and customised themes for Blogger, Although, They are all third party themes.	Yes, Wordpress is not behind too.You get thousands of templates highly stylised and created by Wordpress. I think Wordpress is a winner in this prospect, Because you can use any web template supported by PHP but again you have to spend for it.
Online Tutorials	There are lots and lots of blogger tutorials who will be guiding you throughout your blogging career including the official blogger support. And of course I am also one of them. Blogger is way ahead of wordpress in this matter.	I think wordpress is behind blogger in this matter. There are guiders for you in wordpress, but when compared to blogger, The number is very less.
HTML Based	This is the most important reason why i choose Blogger. HTML is a very simple mark-up language.With a little bit of HTML and CSS, You can customise you Blog a lot! You are the ‘BIGG BOSS’ of your Blog. You can choose how you blog should look like and customise according to your likes.	Wordpress supports PHP, Which is a more difficult language when compared. Although it can also be tweaked according to your needs.
Widgets	Blogger has limited widgets offered officially, And you have to migrate for third party widgets and blogs for this.	Wordpress offers a good numbers of plugins(same as widgets). Whatever you want, you have a plugin ready for That ! And they are all easy to add.
Advertising	As i said, You are the BIG BOSS of your Blog in Blogger. You have the choice to add lots of ad services. Some of them include Google, ADsense, AdBrite, BuySellAds, Chitika, Kontera and more. . .	Wordpress has its own Advertising policy. You have to abide it. I think you can only add a reference link of amazon as an ad.
Up Time	Blogger is up for 99.9% of time. Stats show that blogger has never been down over a last few years,Because it is hosted on Google servers and it also ensures a better security to your account.	According to stats, Wordpress is reported to be down at some times. If you are ready to empty you pockets for hosting, you don't have worry about this.
Importing Blogs	Only from Blogger to Blogger.	From any Platform to any other Platform.
Image Hosting	Only 1GB of Image can be hosted on Blogger, That’s not less, It takes years to complete.	Unlimited!!!. If you have a host.
SEO	I think one cannot compare both of them because both of them are winners in their own prospect.	Same

Conclusion

For me, Blogger is much much more better than Wordpress. I have mentioned some important features of both of them. You have the freedom to choose any one of them, But think several times before you choose. If you ask any professional blogger, He may say that “Blogger is Better” or “Wordpress is better”.But ultimately it comes down to you to whom it matters the most. Go to Blogger, view it features and similarly for wordpress. “Choose the one which suits you the best” . I favour blogger, What do you prefer and why ? Please leave in your comments so that others also can get to choose. Your comments are valuable for many of newbies out there. More exciting tutorials are on the way Smile .

Sunday, April 24, 2011