Here is a cool tip might or might not have known but blogger is better than you think by having the main advantage of getting ranked faster by search engines like google. Why? Simply because blogger is treated as an authority site by google and as google own the blogger platform already then that brings another advantage. If you are a newbie and don`t know what an authority site is then here is a brief summary. Authority site: Usually a site with a user friendly interface, a high amount of traffic and a well established name(these are the kind of sites we use everyday) Youtube=Authority Site [TIP] Another great benefit of using an authority site. Chances are you make a video, put it on youtube, beef up your comment, rating, views and friends all done with automated software then you will get a good PR(Pagerank) from one video alone then just start interlinking and build a load of high quality backlinks.
Yes, blogger does seem to index slightly quicker. But if you have your pings set up at wordpress/etc you can get indexed in a few hours too sometimes.
Google certainly does favor blogger blogs. But then, they also seem to be keen on wordpress sites too. And with wordpress, you get lots of free hosts to put your blogs on, and much more flexibility.
i actually think that google is not bias towards blogger at all. that would completely go against what the company is trying to do with it's search engine.
what would you guys suggest to use for ping services? here are mine http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2/ http://pingqueue.com/rpc/ http://ping.feedburner.com http://www.bloglines.com/ping http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
Yest it is. Is it because google has blogger platform or did bloggers really contribute something valuable? Sorry but I just can't digest your destination to Authority Site. Yest it may be true. I don't have any 1st hand experience
yeah - he didn't last long, did he? I prefer wordpress too, and I'm not even sure it's harder to use than blogger these days - most hosts have a one click install. And the control panel is pretty self-explanatory...