I’m using blogger
blogging 7 CommentsSomeone just unsubscribed because they are going to use blogger.
I do not see the connection but hey, that’s life.
Let’s look at blogger.com for a moment.
Google owns it not you.
Using blogger is okay if you want to test the waters and see if you can get a topic to take flight. But to build on long term is not a good idea.
It’s like building your home on someone Else’s land. And the contract states: I can take your home anytime I please.
I started out on blogger. It’s good. you can do whatever you want there. Great testing platform.
But if you know you are going to be sticking to blogging, WordPress hosted on your own server is the way to go.
I will definitely comment on this post. It really strikes a note with me. I will tell you why. The first blog I ever put up was a blogger. I was so proud of it (and still am). It is 3 years old now, and gets a fair amount of traffic. But all the traffic it gets is from an ezine article. I can’t get that blogger blog to rank for even the easiest keywords, and I’m no noob at SEO. My ezine article ranks #1 for an extremely competitive keyword and sends traffic to my blogger. Last year I put up a .com domain using a wordpress theme and I can get it to rank no problem. (same niche) It just makes no sense to me, but honestly the only thing I would use blogger for is backlinks. I would never use it for a money site. Just my two cents worth.
Sure, but wordpress upcharges you for EVERYTHING. Things that you can do on blogger for free and so easily that a total idiot can figure it out. With wordpress, everything is extra money (using your own web address, having mp3 and videos… all of which is free on blogger. Not to mention that it seems sometimes like even the people wordpress employs don’t know how to actually use their platform, have you ever read one of their help pages? They generally have about 70% dissatisfaction ratings. I have 3 blogs, 2 on blogger one using a rapid blogger interface and one with wordpress. The only reason my wordpress blog is still with wordpress is because the template is better. As soon as my web skin is ready for rapid weaver I will be building a website and using rapid blog through blogger to blog. I will shed no tears for wordpress.
As a newbie searching for a way forward, I wish there had been three posts here, that would have helped me make a decision either way!
I have more than a few articles ranking 1 on google and want to push readers from my resource box to a place where I can advertise myself.
I have both a WordPress and Blogger blog at the moment, because I’m new and still practising.
Wordpress via my host is painful to use, whereas Blogger takes minutes.
I need only to drive traffic from Ezine articles to a blog which offers my services, not as a squeeze page, just a straight offer. Blogger seems to suit that best, as I don’t need ecommerce, or backlinks etc. (At the moment).
I can see if I had chosen affiliate marketing as a first love, Blogger would not really fit the bill.
Guess I’ll go with Blogger for a startup. I’ll keep you posted
I personally will not use a free site when i can have my own on a site I CONTROL .. No one can take it down but me . Noone can tell me what to put on it it’s my choice and i prefer my site to a free site that i have NO CONTROL of POINT BLANK …. but in the end it’s just my opinion for my sites your choice for your sites is YOUR’S
I personally will not use a free site when i can have my own on a site I CONTROL ..
Having a blog at blogger.com is only good for testing purposes, you cannot go with it for long term plans. Let me enumerate few reasons for my statement:
1] People have complained about there blogger blog getting banned. (reason could be any rule violation which no one reads / no one knows unless they get their blogs banned.) I have seen people who were running successful blog for more than 3 to 4 years and one day they got their blog banned and everything was lost.
If you are planning to run your business or want to earn some decent revenue from your blogs then you can’t put your trust in rented property (blogger’s blog), which can be banned for any unknown reason in future.
2] Most of the places, whenever you are trying to go advanced with website promotion (FREE or PAID),you will be asked to provide you MAIN DOMAIN, which you don’t have at blogger.com, its a SUB-DOMAIN which you get and most of the time you will be missing 1000s of opportunities, just because you don’t OWN your main domain.
3] Doing S.E.O. is not an easy task with sub-domains at blogger.com, you have to have your own parent domain to rank it well in SERP.
4] If you are planning to earn some money from your blogs, then you must consider spending money for it. To earn big, you have to invest a little. In future, You must be promoting your business online with the help of paid advertisings or paid traffic strategies, then why can’t u afford a self hosted domain for wordpress blog.
5] Lets assume that after 3 years of hard work at a blogger sub-domain, you are earning $500 a month from your blogger blog (ASSUME!), then you must be capable of hosting your own domain and can afford few dollar expenses. At that time, if you want to transfer your blog from blogger.com to self hosted site, “Can You Imagine How Much Painful That Could Be?”
You will lose most of your search engine traffic, your S.E.O. and back-linking efforts will be all in vain, and you have to start back-linking it again from scratch. I have seen ill effect of transferring blog from a self hosted domain to another domain, and it resulted in total mess up with traffic from 10,000s per month to just 100s per month. (There are always few loyal subscribers, who follow you, no matter wherever you go.)
6] Do i need to keep writing??? believe me, in the long run you will be spending 100s of Dollars for success of your blog and online business, then investing few dollars is never a big task.
There are some good quality comments on a very important topic.
Making the decision to stay with Blogger, or go over to self Hosted WordPress, can be daunting.
WordPress has thousands of widgets that allow you to do just about anything, though, as other have stated, you will need to start spending up. Apart from hosting costs, there are other areas where you will need to fork out.
You can do quite a lot with Blogger, including purchasing your Blogs URL address(Blog name), thus getting rid of the dreaded Blogspot from the end of your URL.
With blogger, you can also find some incredible free third party WordPress theme templates templates.
You just need to do a little bit of code editing to get them functioning 100%.
Regarding the technical aspects of the switch over from Blogger to WordPress, as others have stated, it would be much better to make the switch as early as possible.