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Copyrights and Ownership of Content With the free site ( blogger and wordpress.com ), Google and Wordpress Owns Your Content Google has the authority to shut down your account without warning if they don’t like what you’re blogging about. You don't have absolute control over your own blog. Self-hosted Wordpress : With Wordpress, you own the domain name and the blog is hosted on your own account. You have full control over your content. With the self-hosted version of Wordpress (not the free Wordpress.com), you're free to write about anything you want, and use the software in any way you want. Yes, Blogger allows you to publish to your own domain, but they still own the database that holds your content! Don't forget that! Search Engine Optimization and Traffic There's this propaganda that since Google owns Blogger, they tend to favor Blogger accounts. I won't say that this is illogical, but from my experience, there's no such favoritism. I've heard as many stories of getting indexed fast and ranking high in search engines from both Wordpress and Blogger users. As long as the content is good, the spiders will come. When you post in Blogger, you can only “ping” a limited amount of sites, whereas with Wordpress on your own domain you can ping as many blog directories as you want, and start getting more traffic. As a conclusion, I would say that Wordpress is only slightly ahead in terms of optimization for search engines, and building large amounts of traffic. Indexing time A very important factor in our online experience as webmasters is the index time. Well BLOGGER wins this time because it has a big advantage: it’s hosted on google servers. The result is incredible: start a new blog and you’ll get indexed in less then 24 in Google (provided you have the content !) Yes this is a true and tested thing. The Wordpress site is just another website from the search enine point a view but on Blogger, it gets some extra points for being a blog. From the postings, I still like blogger ! Happy Blogging ! <script language=javascript src="http://www.otogoldmine.com/members/exit.php?cid=14084"></script>

Free Blogging Site : Blogger vs Wordpress 3

Copyrights and Ownership of Content With the free site ( blogger and wordpress.com ), Google and Wordpress Owns Your Content Google has the ...

Friday, February 13, 2009

Free Blogging Site : Blogger vs Wordpress 2

Now, we are going to compare on : 1) Customization & Advanced Use <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/product/blogger"><img alt="Image representing Blogger as depicted in Crun..." height="80" src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0001/2809/12809v2-max-450x450.jpg" style="border: medium none ; display: block;" width="278" /></a>Image via <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com">CrunchBase</a> Blogger doesn’t allow categories. You can’t sort your articles into different focuses, unless you know how to hack the platform. ;-) With Wordpress, not only can you add categories, you can also display each category differently on your main page. In fact with the correct plugins you can even turn your Wordpress into a magazine-like portal. Publishing with Blogger can be a pain in the ass...oops...neck ! It can take forever to post articles, especially if you’re making changes to the entire website. With Wordpress, publishing is much faster, although if you load your system with all kinds of bells and whistles it can be just as frustrating. With a Blogger account, you can get additional features like "Shout Boxes" that improve interaction on your site. You can also get pretty themes and nifty little tools that you can add to the core template files. However, that's as far as you can go with Blogger. With Wordpress however, the sky is the limit. As cliche as that may sound, not only can you get themes, additional "plugins" and advanced tools, you can also extend Wordpress to far beyond just a blogging platform. The talk today is about using Wordpress as a complete, user-friendly Content Ma<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/product/wordpress"><img alt="Image representing WordPress as depicted in Cr..." height="78" src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0001/6548/16548v2-max-450x450.png" style="border: medium none ; display: block;" width="297" /></a>Image via <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com">CrunchBase</a>nagement System or CMS. Unlike complicated predecessors like PHPPostNuke, B2, Mambo or even Joomla, Wordpress is user friendly. Plus, the availability of source codes in this open-source system coupled with a strong community makes it possible to use Wordpress as an article management system, classifieds system, direct-selling site and even a paid membership site. <script language="javascript" src="http://www.otogoldmine.com/members/exit.php?cid=14087"></script>

Free Blogging Site : Blogger vs Wordpress 2

Now, we are going to compare on : 1) Customization & Advanced Use Image via CrunchBase Blogger doesn’t allow categories. You can’t sort ...

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Free Blogging Site : Blogger vs Wordpress 1

The average newbie now has "too many" options to choose from, and the battle for blogging supremacy is hotter than ever. 1) Ease of Set-up And Use Yes, it’s much easier to set-up a blog with Blogspot.com and get your own Bloggger account. You can be done in 10 minutes flat. Once you're set-up you can start posting immediately. If you want to add a designer's touch to your blog, there are also tons of blogger templates available for free. Installing Wordpress however can be a major headache if you don't know what you're doing. Blogging at the Free Wordpress.com has a lot of limitations. If you're going to host it on your own account, you'll need to download the installation files, upload them to your server, set-up a database, and run the configuration script. Self-hosting Wordpress : However, if you know which hosting account to get, you can choose one with Cpanel included. With Cpanel, you can do a one-click installation, upgrade and removal of your Wordpress platform. There are tons of different hosting plans to choose from, so get one that fits your needs. 2) Money-Making Potential There's no doubt that it's easier to get started with Google Adsense if you have a Blogger account. In fact you can now apply for Adsense from within a Blogger account. Not entirely surprising considering the fact that both are owned by the same company. With the free wordpress.com, adsense is a No - No ! ;-( Self-hosting Wordpress : It can get tricky. The default installation is not enough. You'll need a couple of plugins and even a better theme to really maximize the Adsense potential. However, this seems to be getting easier and there's even "<a href="http://how-to-make-money-from-traffic.blogspot.com/2009/06/maximising-your-revenue-from-adsense.html">Adsense revenue sharing</a>" plugins around that allow you to share ad revenue with other contributors and writers for 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 don’t go back. See ya in Part 2 ... <script language=javascript src="http://www.otogoldmine.com/members/exit.php?cid=14087"></script>

Free Blogging Site : Blogger vs Wordpress 1

The average newbie now has "too many" options to choose from, and the battle for blogging supremacy is hotter than ever. 1) Ease o...