What Blog Program Is Better - Blogger.com or Wordpress?
To me, it seems that both (or rather all three) have their own sets of advantages and disadvantages. Blogger.com is nice for gaining quick traffic to your site, because they are tied into Google. Wordpress.com is nice if you don’t have domain hosting, or simply want a blog out of the box with many features. Wordpress.org is the best if you want full functionality and freedom to modify, edit, or add to the code.
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April 30th, 2006 at 12:15 am
Wordpress, without a doubt.
Blogger.com is only for those who want to add a little SEO.
Either that or someone without a domain, without a Web presence, without a fear of giving Google too much.
April 30th, 2006 at 12:19 am
Ok. Which is better… remotely hosted wordpress or wordpress using your own domain?
And also… which is better… remotely hosted wordpress or remotely hosted blogger.com?
April 30th, 2006 at 12:22 am
It all depends on what you want out of it.
If all you want is a good, customizable blog, Wordpress or Typo or Movable Type, hands down.
If you want an easy learning curve, Blogger.com - although there are those SEO considerations, too.
For me, I wasn’t looking for SEO, so I went with Wordpress.
April 30th, 2006 at 12:40 am
It’s definately one or the other. SEO or better program is the choice initially. I think after time though, the posts created with wordpress would start to pick up well in the search results. It seems so far with my experience using blogger.com, your new posts get an initial shock of traffic (if you want to even give it that much credit) and then it goes into a sleep stage…. what happens after that, I don’t know… because most of my posts created with blogger.com are still in that stage! LOL!!
With wordpress it seems that the code is a lot less messy. I don’t know too much about clean code, but I do know this… the code in blogger.com is just packed full of crap. You have their nav bar, then you have their internal links thru out the pages, and then you have the theme that you downloaded off some weird website that is packed full of its own nasty code…. etc etc etc.
Wordpress seems very clean, and quick to respond and load. I would imagine that the post created in wordpress, its code is written better towards producing more relevant keyword search results compared to blogger.com written posts, both of which being cached in google.
April 30th, 2006 at 1:55 am
You seem to be confusing components with orderly code. Blogger is fine, as far as code goes.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
Hi,
Does the free version of wordpress allow adsence or other advert? Blogger does but I wonder what one needs to get for wordpress? thanks,
Saa
December 7th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
Well, for one, there is no paid version of Wordpress.
And, for two, yes - you can have all sorts of advertising with WP - just look to the right of this page and see for yourself.
December 7th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Saa, Wordpress.com hosted blogs do not allow individuals to place Google Adsense code in their blogs. [Adsense and other Ads]
These are the blog sites that look like this:
yourblog.wordpress.com
This is different that Wordpress.org.
Wordpress.org is where you go to get a copy of the blog program to use on your own server. That is what BTi is. I can advertise on my site but if I ran this site under their hosting terms, I wouldn’t be able to. In either case, the program Wordpress is still open source. I can modify, fix, (more likely break… ask Vex, he always fixes it for me!) the program all I want. But, on Wordpress.com, because they provide free hosting for the public, they are pretty clear on what you are allowed to do with your blog.
If you have a popular blog site and value it a lot, I would BE SURE to read their TOS. It would be bad to be doing something wrong, not knowing you were, because you didn’t read the TOS, and now Automatic shut you down. [Terms of Service]
While you are investing time reading about all this, you might want to bookmark their FAQ section. [Wordpress.com FAQ]
Hope this helps… let me know. If you eventually decide to get a domain name and hosting, we can all give you some recommendations where to purchase the domain and where to get hosting.