Guys, Fyi, I have been blogging for the past two years and have several blogs up. Currently, am on blogger, but I have noticed that a lot of my favorite bloggers have upgraded to WP. Questions 1. When would you need to upgrade from blogger to WP ? 2. What are the advantages of WP ? 3. Who should be using WP ? Thank you in advance for your replies / suggestions. I am still a newbie at this ;-)
1. When would you need to upgrade from blogger to WP ? At the beginning. 2. What are the advantages of WP ? Countless. 3. Who should be using WP ? Serious bloggers.
Simply do a search on google... http://www.peyton.co.za/2006/11/03/wordpress-vs-blogger/ http://nathanbauman.com/seoulhero/nfblog/?p=23 As WP is getting more and more popular,so you'll have more themes to choose from,and tons of great plugins.
I don't consider this an upgrade for everyone. Wordpress certainly has more features, but this is not always a good thing for beginners and when simplicity might be applied better. For instance, I find that Wordpress' WYSIWYG view takes a long time to load for me, making editing difficult. But if you are asking you are probably looking for more features. With import tools built into Wordpress you can migrate from Blogger at any time. Blogger now has labels, which is similar to categories, a feature a lot of Wordpress fans were looking for. However, labels are not exactly the same. Wordpress is pretty much a PHP hosting only product. Blogger can be posted over FTP and can be flat HTML, ASP or PHP. Blogger does not require a database, whereas Wordpress does. Both companies will host the blog on their servers - *.wordpress.org - and - *.blogspot.com - respectively. Depending on your hosting account these should be considerations. Until the new version of Blogger, link management in the sidebar and other changes to the template required digging through the HTML. Wordpress has management tools, but they include a lot of extra/optional features (e.g. XFN) that the beginner is not going to recognize right away. I suggest getting a wordpress account and taking it for a test drive. Go beyond the initial shock that always comes with a new system and really try it out. I use both programs for different needs so I can't say for sure which one I could not do without. I hope this helps.
Arco, thank you for the info. Since you are using both services, blogger n wp, may I know what are you using each service for ?
Thanks for your question. I'd be happy to share details and I'll try to be brief and on point. I'll let you know that Blogger is my main tool and I use it for over a dozen different sites. Here is my blogger profile - http://www2.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765 - with all the public blogs I am in charge of or post to. There are various examples. My personal blog is - http://blog.arconati.us/ - and I like to ramble. I'm building a 4 x 4 Truck site with my brother, a video editor site with my dad, an unofficial blog for where I work, a music directory, a quotes directory, a joke blog and a site for kids. There are more, but these are my most used. Right now, the music site gets the most traffic, most likely because folks are looking for mp3s (none of which I host, back off RIAA). I use del.icio.us quite a bit for my bookmarks. I noted in their system that they had a way to automatically post a daily list of your links to your blog and I thought this would be great and would help me say something quick about a site I found without having to post a full entry. However, digging into the feature, I found that it currently does not work with Blogger. I searched kind of exaustively to find the proper settings. Although the two companies are agreeable and looking for a way to get it to work, neither side seems to know why it doesn't work. However, it works flawlessly with Wordpress. I had kinda steered away from Wordpress since I didn't know much about PHP and until this instance had not found anything that Blogger couldn't do for my needs. Well, I had a cPanel account on a good friend's server and I saw Wordpress listed in Fantastico, so I thought I'd give it a try, just to have a blog with my del.icio.us stuff. Well, the site's been up for a year and I've been posting to del.icio.us and it posts through to my Wordpress - james.a.arconati.net - and aside from a custom page or two and applying a template design based on Star Wars, I've done almost nothing else with it. Results? The Wordpress site's home page sometimes shows up with a PageRank of 3! My main site has gotten a 3 before, but was corrected down to a 2 and stays there today. My brother's trucks/muddin' site and my family news blog are also steady 2s. So there is something to be said for Wordpress in that respect. Here's a suggestion to any del.icio.us user out there; get a Wordpress blog immediately (even a free one) and set up daily posting. You never know what the result might be. I'm not really recommending Wordpress much besides this, not that I am saying it's bad. I'd probably abandon the Wordpress site tomorrow if the del.icio.us feature worked with Blogger. But it's just what I'm used to.
If you have no much fund, Blogger is the best, Blogger is owned by google, so your blog will be indexed so much fast and it easy to get good SERP in Google using blogger, coz Google Love Blogger