Blogger Versus WordPress - Which Should You Choose?
By Matt Rhodes
If you've been on the internet for any length of time, then you've certainly run across
many blogs. Maybe you've even read a few blogs consistently. You might be thinking that
starting a blog could be a great asset for your business. It could help you to connect
with customers, share information about new products or services, and enable you to do
some free or low-cost advertising.
If you've gotten this far in the thought process, you've probably realized that there are
two basic options when it comes to blogging. You can choose to use Blogger, which is owned
by Google. Or, you can choose to blog using WordPress, which is open source software.
Each of these choices has advantages and disadvantages, but as usual one comes out
ahead when you consider all of the factors involved.
Like everything else that Google touches, Blogger has been instrumental in bringing a
practice that was the privy of the technologically savvy into the mainstream. In this case
it is the habit of keeping an online journal. Blogger's advantages are that it is
extremely easy to use and very quick to set up. Because it is owned by Google, Blogger
integrates well with the full line of Google applications. You can add your blog link to
your Google Chrome page, add it to your bloglines feed, and find all sorts of add ons that
help blogger to run better and do more things.
Google has kept up well with the newest waves of technology and now allows you to
purchase your own domain name for $10 per year and host your blog on your own domain
name. This is obviously more professional-looking than having yourname.blogspot.com and
is an automatic choice for most business-minded bloggers. Although the option for using
your own domain name does bring Google back into the mainstream, most people consider
a Blogspot blog to be less professional-looking than a WordPress blog.
Unless you are very interested in having your blog integrated with other features of
your Google account, WordPress is probably the platform that you will want to use for your
business blog. Because WordPress is open-source software it is constantly updated. The
basic code is very light, and the flexibility is in the add-ons that can help your
WordPress blog do almost anything you could possibly want.
WordPress prides itself on being easy to install and brags that you can have a blog up
and running in just 5 minutes. Even if you opt to pay for a domain name and web hosting
WordPress makes this easy by recommending several well known hosting services. There
are a multitude of templates available so that you can make your blog look exactly the way
you want it to.
If you're considering starting a blog to promote your business, you've probably
realized that the choice mostly comes down to using Blogger or WordPress. Blogger is a
great option for beginners since it now offers the option of registering your own domain
name. However for flexibility, professionalism, and ease of use WordPress still comes out on top.
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