WordPress or Blogger : Which One is the Good Option for you?

 WordPress OR Blogger 

When making a blog or web site in common, WordPress and Blogger are still the two most popular options. But which one is the most excellent for you?

WordPress has been the absolute market leader for many years: 27% of the world's websites have been created with WordPress.

And we are not always talking about blogs, we are also talking about many sites such as the New York Post, CNN or Spotify to put just a few examples among many.

The fact of the matter is when it comes to choosing a platform, it makes no sense to speak of "the best" in absolute terms, there is no such thing. They all have advantages and disadvantages.

The question to ask is which one is the best for you and that will depend on what exactly you want to do with your website.

                    What Will You Find Here?                 

• When to utilize Blogger, when WordPress.com and when WordPress.org.
• You just pretend to try
• You've got a genuine project, but you aren't allowed to spend any money
• You have got a genuine Project and you need to create pay with it,
• What is and how does Blogger  work?
• What is and how does WordPress work?

The first thing you need to know about WordPress: the difference between the ".com" and ".org" versions

The philosophy of WordPress.com

The philosophy of WordPress.org

Common points between Blogger and WordPress

             Differences Between WordPress And Blogger.           

1. Level of captivity and investment risk

2. Learning curve and ease of use

3. Design customization

4. Space limitations and traffic capacity

5. Online advertising (AdSense)

6. Maintenance and backups

7. SEO On Page

8. Integration with Google Analytics

9. Ease of migrating to WordPress.org

WordPress.com is a free publishing platform owned by Automatic company.

You can create one or more blogs using a valid email address.

The URL of the blog created will be in the format: http://name.wordpress.com/

Blogger (also called Blogspot) is Google.com's free publishing platform.

You can create one or more blogs with the only requirement of having a Google account.

The URL of the blog created will be in the format: http://name.blogspot.com/

                           WordPress, Features                    

Wordpress, the free version, is the preferred way of publishing by demanding users, with advanced knowledge, but who do not have the economic resources to use the paid version, that is, to install Wordpress on their own server.

Wordpress has a huge number of collaborators and professionals who give their contribution in the form of plugins, extensions, scripts, widgets, etc. Useful to add functionalities to a blog created on this platform and keep it updated with the latest changes in the network.

It is a more complete platform, but more complex.

The service is free, but as a blog becomes popular, we will realize that we need to pay in order to continue progressing.

Advantages Of A Blog In WordPress

• It has a huge community in the Blogosphere, where to promote the posts that are published.

• The software is free and open source.

• It is possible to sort the post by categories, subcategories and Tags.

• It is possible for readers to subscribe to receive the posts published by email.

• Ease of adding forms.

• Moderation, editing of comments and protection by Akismet from spam.

• Blogs can be imported from Blogger and other platforms.

• Allows communication tools between other blogs (Trackback, Pingback, etc)

Disadvantages Of A WordPress Blog

• They offer a large number of templates, but they cannot be edited or transformed.

• You do not have access to the huge number of Plugins.

• It is not allowed to add advertising of any kind, but if the company's advertisements are displayed on our blog. If you want your advertising not to be shown, you will have to pay $ 29.97 per year.

• We only have 3 GB of accommodation for the images, in case you want to increase the amount of space, the price is excessive: 5 Gb more costs $ 19.97 per year.

• For those who are interested in using the blog created, as an auxiliary reference tool to a website, they cannot create several links because there is a danger that the blog will be considered as spam and the account will be suspended.

• Confront various security issues on a regular basis. If a blog is hacked, they can insert spam and malware for which it will be penalized by Google.

                           Blogger Features                          

It is the preferred platform for amateurs with little or no technical knowledge, due to the ease of post creation and publication.

It is ideal to publish information, news or news quickly and visibly, within the reach of any average user. Creating a blog and setting it up only takes a few minutes.

Everything is free.

Advantages Of A Blog On Blogger

• It is possible to choose between several templates or fully customize any of them, without knowing anything about code or HTML.

• They have templates specifically for portable devices (tablets and cell phones).

• The published pages are better positioned in the searches (SEO positioning), using Google as a search engine.

• There is more possibility of obtaining or raising the PageRank value.

• Images posted on pages have a better chance of appearing in Google Images results.

• The integration of Blogger with the social network Google+ and other Google services, offers greater visibility to the content.

• The Google bar allows with: "Blog This!" post entries directly on our blog.

• The possibility of using "Google Authorship" or authorship mark, which allows users in Google search results to know that we are authors recognized by the search engine, gives us a lot of authority and relevance.

Read more information: How to prove to Google that you are the author of what we publish on the internet

• Integration with Google Analytics to obtain detailed statistics.

• There are no restrictions on running ads, even from companies like Amazon (Amazon Associates) to generate income.

• You can insert AdSense advertising and earn money if your posts attract enough visitors.

• Videos published on YouTube can be directly inserted either by using our Google account or by providing the link to the video.

• Any number of reference links to external sites can be inserted in the post.

• Several Widgets are included to integrate the most necessary functions in the blog, they are very easy to add, with a clear explanation of the use of each one.

• It is possible to insert any Javascript code, using the Editor, read how to do it: How to insert Javascript in a Blogger blog

• You can post from cell phones via text messages.

• It is possible to publish using "Windows Live Writer", application included in the free package: Microsoft's Windows Live.

Disadvantages Of A Blog On Blogger

• You get a lot of comment spam, so you need to enable pre-approval in settings.

• The default appearance gives less of an image of professionalism.

• We only have 1 GB of hosting for images shared with Picasa's Web Albums service, which can be increased to an additional 20 GB for $ 5 per year.

• It is not possible to add forms except through third party utilities.