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Blogging Wars – Part 1 Wordpress Vs Blogger
There is a war going on in the blogosphere, and it has nothing to do with each other bloggers Dissing on their respective websites. The war is about control of the blogosphere by several great, many, and tons of blogging platforms terrible. Beginners average "excess" of options to choose, and the battle for supremacy blogs is hotter than ever.
At my website and blogs, I'm always posed the question "Is Wordpress better than Blogger?". The answer, of course, is "Yes". But to really understand why it is important to look both sides of the platforms of blogs by side and see which one you really need.
You must also understand that there are different versions Wordpress, earlier today called "Wordpress" to Wordpress.org, and hosted version similar to Blogger now called "Wordpress.com" which is of course available Wordpress.com. Only the latter is provided with free hosting account on a subdomain. We will discuss this in Part 2.
For Part 1 of this section, we consider only self-hosted version of Wordpress. Here the scale comparison:
1) ease of installation and use
Yes, it's much easier to set up a blog with Blogspot.com and get your own account Bloggger. You can do it in 10 minutes flat. Once you've set up, you can start posting immediately. If want to add a designer touch to your blog, there are also tons of blogger templates available for free.
Installing Wordpress however can be a headache if you do not know what you do. Since you're going to host it on your own, you need to download the installation files, download them to your server, set up a database and run the configuration script.
However, if you know what hosting account for, you can choose one with Cpanel included. With Cpanel, you can make a one-click installation, upgrade and removal of your Wordpress platform.
2) Customization & Advanced Use
Blogger does not allow categories. You can not sort your articles different door, unless you know how to hack the platform. With Wordpress, not only can you add categories, you can also display each category different on your main page. In fact with the correct plugins you can even turn your Wordpress into a portal like magazines.
Published with Blogger may very furstrating. It can take forever to write articles, especially if you make changes to the entire site. With Wordpress, publishing is much faster, but if you load your system with all sorts of bells and whistles it can be equally frustrating.
With a Blogger account, you can get additional features like "Shout Boxes" that improve interaction on your site. You can also get very themes nice and small tools that you can add to the base template files. However, it is in a position where you can go with Blogger.
With Wordpress However, the sky is the limit. As cliche as it may seem, not only can you get themes, additional "plugins" and advanced tools, You can also extend Wordpress to far beyond a blogging platform.
The talk today is about using Wordpress as complete friendly Content Management System or CMS. Unlike predecessors such as complicated PHPPostNuke, B2, or even Mambo Joomla, Wordpress is easy. In addition, the availability source code of this open-source system coupled with a strong community, it is possible to use Wordpress as an article management system, system of small ads, direct sales site and even a paid membership site.
4) Copyright and Content Ownership
I started with Blogger and I will not say it's bad. But after a while, I started to get frustrated with Blogger, and here's why: holding your Google
Google has the power to close your account without warning if they do not like what you blog about. You not have absolute control on your own blog. With Wordpress, you own the domain name and the blog is hosted on your own. You have full control your content.
With self-hosted version of Wordpress (not Wordpress.com), you are free to write about something you want, and use the software in any way you want. Yes, Blogger allows you to post your own domain, but they still own the database that contains your content! Remember!
5) Search Engine Optimization and Traffic
There's this propaganda, because Google owns Blogger, they tend to favor Blogger accounts. I will not say that it is not logical, but in my experience, there is no favoritism.
I heard many stories of fasting is indexed and ranking in search engines to both Wordpress and Blogger users. As long as the content is good, the spiders will come.
When you post in Blogger, you can "ping" a limited number of sites, while in Wordpress on your own domain name that you can test many blog directories you want, and start getting more traffic.
In conclusion, I would say that Wordpress is slightly ahead in terms of optimization for search engines, and construction of large amounts of traffic.
6) Money-Making potential
There is no doubt that it is easier to get started with Google AdSense if you have a Blogger account. In fact, you can now Adsense request from a Blogger account. Not entirely surprising, given the fact that both belong to the same company.
With Wordpress, it can become difficult. The default installation does not. You'll need a couple of plugins and even a better theme to really Adsense maximize potential. However, this seems to be getting easier and there's even "Adsense revenue sharing" plugins around that allow you to share advertising revenue with other contributors and editors of your blog.
When you start using Wordpress to build your Adsense websites, you'll soon discover what I mean. It's something you need to experience for yourself. I can tell you one thing though – when you go Wordpress, you do not go back.
About the Author
Gobala Krishnan is the author of the best-selling beginner’s guide to using Wordpress as niche Adsense websites. You can download two free chapters of his book at http://www.WordpressAdsenseSystem.com
