Many of you will be confused in choosing a platform for blogging between WordPress and Blogger. Both platforms are widely used for blogging purposes worldwide. Now let us look at some aspects which will help you in choosing the most agreeable platform.
Blogger doesn't have a huge set of themes. It doesn't provide a user the additional functionality of creating their own themes. You can use predefined tools to customize the themes fractionally. Moreover, the already present themes are very basic. Though recently blogger has added many new themes which are eye catching but still when compared to WordPress, it seems to be running a little behind.
WordPress has a huge set of customizable premium themes. It provides flexibility to the user to create and edit their own themes. WordPress themes are very eye-catching as compared to Blogger. There are many high-quality themes that give a professional look to your website.
- Ownership
Blogger is a blogging service provided by tech giant Google. The platform is free of cost, it is reliable, and a great platform for starters with a non-technical background. Google runs this service, thus, it owns your blog/website and has rights to shut your access to it at any time.
WordPress on the other side is also a blogging service provided by WordPress.com. This platform comes with free as well as paid plans. In the free plan, you can create your own blog but the domain address will be a subdomain of WordPress.com
For Example https://xyz.wordpress.com
For Example https://xyz.wordpress.com
If you choose the paid plan then you get access to the whole set of predefined customizable themes to create your own website. Here you will have complete ownership of your content. You own your data, and you control what information you want to share with any third party.
- Control
Blogger is less flexible than WordPress. The degree of control that you get in Blogger is less than that of WordPress. The things that you can do with Blogger is very limited as they provide tools allowing you to perform only specific tasks on your website. Blogspot restricts you to do the only certain type of tasks on your blog and there is no way you can extend it.
WordPress on the hand is an open source software, so you can easily extend it to add new features. There are many WordPress plugins available online, you can use them to add increased features to your Wordpress website.
- Themes
Blogger doesn't have a huge set of themes. It doesn't provide a user the additional functionality of creating their own themes. You can use predefined tools to customize the themes fractionally. Moreover, the already present themes are very basic. Though recently blogger has added many new themes which are eye catching but still when compared to WordPress, it seems to be running a little behind.
WordPress has a huge set of customizable premium themes. It provides flexibility to the user to create and edit their own themes. WordPress themes are very eye-catching as compared to Blogger. There are many high-quality themes that give a professional look to your website.
- SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Wordpress themes are highly SEO friendly as compared to Blogger themes. SEO (search engine optimization) is the process of getting natural organic traffic through search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo. The higher is the SEO of a website, the higher is the organic traffic i.e more people would be reading your blogs.
- Security
Blogger is managed by Google, therefore, it has advantages of Google's robust advanced security system. You don't need to worry about managing server resources, securing blog or creating backups. Everything is managed by Google.
- The Online Income
The free version of Wordpress doesn't allow you to earn through its advertisement programs. You need to own a custom domain over WordPress to use its ads network "WordAds".
On the other hand, Blogger allows you to use earn through its advertisement programs. You needn't own a custom domain to set up advertisements. Google provides you ads through Google AdSense
Blogger is managed by Google, therefore, it has advantages of Google's robust advanced security system. You don't need to worry about managing server resources, securing blog or creating backups. Everything is managed by Google.
- The Online Income
The free version of Wordpress doesn't allow you to earn through its advertisement programs. You need to own a custom domain over WordPress to use its ads network "WordAds".
On the other hand, Blogger allows you to use earn through its advertisement programs. You needn't own a custom domain to set up advertisements. Google provides you ads through Google AdSense
Irony is in all the facts except security, you have lifted Wordpress, yet you wrote the article in wordpress.
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