Blogging Wars - Wordpress Vs Blogger

There’s a war going on in the blogosphere, and it has nothing to do with bloggers dissing each other on their respective websites. The war is about control of the blogosphere by several great, many good, and tons of terrible blogging platforms. The average newbie now has “too many” options to choose from, and the battle for blogging supremacy is hotter than ever.

At my website and blogs, I’m always asked the question “Is Wordpress better than Blogger?”. The answer, of course, is “Yes”. But to really understand why, it’s important to look at both blogging platforms side-by-side and see which one you really need.
Here’s the comparison scale:

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. Since 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.

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.

2) Customization & Advanced Use

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. 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 Management System or CMS.

4) Copyrights and Ownership of Content

I started with Blogger and I won’t say that it’s bad. But after a while I started to get frustrated with Blogger, and here’s why: Google 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. 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 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!

5) 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.

6) 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 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 “Adsense revenue sharing” 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.

About the Author
Gobala Krishnan is the author of Wordpress Adsense System, the unique beginner’s guide to building content-rich Adsense websites with Wordpress. You can download two free chapters of his book at http://www.easywordpress.com/go.php?offer=dannco&pid=02

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Sounds very dramatic I know, but also very true!!

I have recently been in hospital, (hence my long break from here) with a very serious heart attack.
Came completely out of the blue as they say. I had no idea there were any problems as I wasn’t aware that a couple of things that were happening to my body were actually warning signs.

Upon going to the Plaza shopping Mall I decided to have a heart attack while trying to get back to my car and go home. Wasn’t exactly feeling very well! That would be an understatement!

My arms felt as though they were so heavy I couldn’t lift them, and I was finding it very difficult to breathe as well. Like someone was sitting on my chest literally squeezing the life out of me. In a funny kind of way thats exactly what was happening.

anyway, some truly wonderful people helped me through all this, put me in an Ambulance which then whisked me off to Hospital, after making sure I was hooked up to all the necessary wirs and instruments etc. they did a superb job as I found out later from the medical team.
I have nothing but high Praise for our St. John’s Ambulance Teams. They are superb!!!

Anyway, to cut a very long story short, once in hospital all things were completed very rapidly. then about 3 hours after they thought I was starting to respond much better, I actually ended up dying. There was a furhter clot blocking the left Ventrical which caused a sudden stoppage of everything.
however, because of what the Ambulance Team had set me up with before reaching Hospital, everything was in place for me to receive the “paddles”. This kicked my heart back into life again, Praise God, and since then, little by little everything has returned to “normal”.

I truly thank God for this Miracle in my life, because this is reall how I see it.
I apprently have no damage, not need of an operation, not need of Stents, ( which are little valve openers) not on any Heart Medication drugs at this stage or anything!!!!!!!
Only God could bring about something as awesome as that.

So perhaps you can see why I have not been here over recent weeks to up-date my site.

I hope you will think this is a ramble, but I felt you were owed an explanation.
Thank you all and I look forward to bringing you some more informative bits and pieces as the days and months go by. they do that pretty rapidly too.

Enjoy your lives that you have now. It is so short when you realize that it is already finished and there was so much more you wanted to do.

Having literally died and now being alive again, I can truthfully say, I have a totally different aspect of life now adays.

there are many things to get done, but the greatest of these is to make sure, that along the way we give thanks to God for the life he has already given us, but that we also use that life for His Glory.

In this way we will actually have a life of abundance in everything necessary.
Already I am finding this to be very true.

Bless you and all and have a wonderful day wherever you are and whatever you may be doing.

PS. I am fully conscious of those who are crippled or paraplegics, or simply unable to move without assistance too. Those of us who are more mobile, need to make a better effort to make their days as much grighter as we can. thank you so much for being ” Good Samaritans”. You are highly valued in todays world.

Danella

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