Ask The Readers: Blogger Or WordPress – Which One Are You Using?

Previously I was using wordpress but now shifted to blogger because I had a idea in my mind that blogger is free and I can save a lot of money also your hosted wordpress site needs extra care. If my blog grows very large or if blogger bans my blog at that time I will shift my blog to a hosted account. I don’t think that there is any need to pay if you are getting everything free.
I think every blogger should initially use blogger platform rather than wordpress because your blog will not start earning as soon as you made it. It takes time, so for time shake blogger is good option after that you can shift to wordpress when you have started making some good money from your blog.

Hi Ammar, I love wordpress very much
Benefits of WordPress
1. Purpose of a CMS

Keep content/data, design and functionality code separated and globalized
Empower the webmaster to make changes themselves with ease
Connect with current and future social media and other pre-built outlets
Inherit functionality that comes from the core and from the community extras

Hi Ammar, nice question you have asked here. As per my opinion both (Blogger and WordPress) platform is best and both have advantages and disadvantages. Currently I am using Blogger platform and reason behind it that I love it. The main thing is using still blogger is I have learned coding by just using blogger. WordPress has many plugins that you can implement anything on WordPress by just installing it but in Blogger you have to code it. Advanced user also can customize WordPress blog by coding. Although WordPress have some great advantages against the Blogger. It is good to use the platform which you enjoy most rather reading just review from people. That’s why i use Blogger because I love it to use it.

It is my personal opinion.

I started my blog on blogspot and after years moved to wordpress self hosted blog. The difference between blogger and wordpress… WordPress has slight advantage eventhough blogspot owned by google… As everyone said in wp you ll have ur own control.. but disadvantage is too spend much for themes, plugins, design and many more…

without a doubt WordPress. It’s important to have an impact on everything that You can do on Your WebSite. It’s also easy to edit even for people without knowledge of coding skills. Benefirts of WP are so many, that i can talk about it all night, but ill just say it in one sentense. Get it now, trust me – WordPress got power and ill increase in future a lot.

Hello Ammar,

WordPress is the best Blogging platform according to me due to it’s unfriendly GUI and control over of it’s galaxy full of it’s features, themes.

As you rightly mentioned above in this article while we are having blog hosted on wordpress we can be sure on following points

Installing new themes/Plugins/Administration/Maintenance/Management/Security

Is easy one and more user friendly which does not need any coding knowledge.

However I still want to see some improvements towards their “Blog stats” part which is little behind of “Google Analytic Tools”

Hi Anmar,

I am using both. I don’t see why we need to pick one or the other. What’s wrong with having two blogs. I have 3 active blogs right now and two of them are on Blogger and one on WordPress.

Thanks Anmar

Hi Ammar,
Great comparison! There could many benefits from WordPress and Blogger. If we have custom domain name, any site with blogger platform also works almost same. But I prefer WordPress due to SEO, Plugins, and theme.

Hi Ammar Ali ..

I’ve never used Blogger and I’ve been using WordPress since I came in that field. I don’t know what how much difficult to blogger is but I’ve heard from my friend that WordPress is more easy as compare with Blogger and I’ve also noticed that because of some great plugins it’s very easy.

The author advantage of WordPress is also that we don’t have too much need to think about the template, we can save our time and give that time to write magical content.

Thanks – Have a nice week ahead :)

I am Using Blogger and Just Missing Features of Plugins.

i am using both and i like blogger, wordpress blog need many time for traffic

I think there is no reason to compare WordPress with Blogger because WordPress is far ahead in several features including:
1. Series of several widgets for one purpose to pick your favourite
2. Comprehensive SEO support
3. Huge number of free templates
4. Full control because of private hosting
5. Dashboard with variety of options
Yes it is right Blogger is good for beginners because;
1. It is easy to manage
2. It offers free hosting
3. It has a little higher speed
4. It is Google boy
5. It is secure without any security widget
It is wise to start your blogger on Blogger and then shift it to WordPress if you are serious in blogging and want to take your blog to professional level. But you should take following steps must while you are on Blogger
1) Buy custom domain and don’t rely on free domain (www.yourdomain.blogspot.com)
2) Regularly download backup of your Blogger blog because Google has right to wipe out your entire blog any time without sending any notice to you
3) Never buy custom domain through Blogger; instead of it, buy a domain with any good Domain company like Godaddy and put it on your blogger plateform. If you buy through Blogger it will not sell directly to you. It will also make you buy from any domain seller and Domain By Proxy will also involve in it as third party to manage your domain. It is so complicated, so directly buy your domain.
4) Take care in making permalink of your each post and do it on similar pattern because after you shift your blog on WordPress you need to maintain same format of permalink to keep getting the back link juice
5) Do not get back links aggresively and first make strong foundation of your blog on Blogger and after you shift on WordPress make an extensive drive to get backlink. Reason: if your permalink setting got disturbed while shifting you don’t have to lose huge number of backlinks
6) Never invest any huge amount for buying premium template of Blogger and manage your blog on as much free offerings as possible and invest after shifting on WordPress
7) Before one month of shifting your blog from Blogger to WordPress thoroughly do research on how to shift it and don’t waste your money by paying any web developer to do this job. After a little research you can easily do this job. Almost all the techie bloggers have extensively covered this topic in their post to guide you
8) Soon after shifting on WordPress never expect a big change in days; it will take little time to first get you back on your previous level and then to move you higher and higher
Believe me if your properly apply the most relevant widgets on your blog at WordPress you will see miraculous increase in your traffic. But your contents and SEO must be professionally perfect to get huge success.

I use blogger and I enjoy the features although I think wordpress is better as it has lots of plugins to ease work for bloggers.
I hope to move over there very soon.
Thanks for sharing this…really appreciate!

I use WordPress due to its superiority over other over other CMS. Apart from this, there are many added features. Such as lots of premium themes, easy to do SEO with plugins, easy to manage multiple websites, and much more.

I will also prefer WordPress, same reasons which you mentioned above.
easy to use, security, thousands of free plugins,themes, SEO friendly and many more things which make wordpress better than blogger.

I worked on blogger for six months but now I have shifted to wordpress. Although blogger was also simple and easy to use for a newbie like me, wordpress is better in most of the aspects. Wide variety of themes, lots of useful plugins, good user interface etc. are some of the points that makes it most people’s choice.
Thanks for starting this series through which a lot of new bloggers will benefit.

I am using both WordPress and Blogger for different purposes. In my opinion, Blogger is best in terms of seo but we can’t trust fully on blogger for any serious internet business. For just blogging, we should use blogger.

Hey Ammar,
Well I am also using WordPress for my blogging site. The main reason for which I have opted WordPress is that its very easy and efficient simultaneously on a single go. Moreover the dashboard panel is really very blogger friendly.

Thanks a lot for sharing this.
Regards

Hi Ammar this is an excellent topic for doing debate especially for the help of those who want to jump into blogging sooner or later. We must guide them that blogging is no doubt an adventurous field where you make a mistake and learn from it but after ten years age of this field newbie need to learn from the experience of others instead of trying something themselves. Just one question is enough to decide which one is better blogger or wordpress. Question is how many bloggers after becoming pro in their niche are still using blogger platform. I think hardly 3 per cent. So the thing which you have to do tomorrow why don’t you do today and become its expert before tomorrow comes. As far as techie aspect is concerned for both of them no one needs to learn rocket science nor any of them require any high level technical skills. So one must start his blog on WordPress and becomes its pro.

Ammar, there was a time I would have argued against wordpress, but you see have come to recognise the awesomeness of that platform, so while I still use blogger I hope to move to wordpress this year.

One advantage blogger has is its speed but apart from this I see no great benefit.

It’s so difficult to customize, limited wonderful theme except you are maradona of web design.

While I could recommend it for those who consider blogging a hobby, it’s so limiting for those who consider blogging a busines.

WordPress with sevral plug-in makes for easy customisation and seems to make commenting a tad easier.
Just want to thank Harleena for sending me to this wonderful site. Hope I could be the winner.

Hi Ammar,

Interesting series, and something that most bloggers would benefit from as well :)

I’d also choose WordPress for the very same reason, and also because you really don’t have to do much where the codes are concerned if your theme is a good one. Not to mention that you can also use CommentLuv Premium – another added feature!

Earlier both my blogs were on Blogger, but I was quick to make out the difference and benefits of WordPress through my blogging friend’s in time and switched over within a few months, and there’s no looking back now.

Thanks for sharing. Have a nice week ahead :)