Wordpress.com Vs Blogger.com
This post is created especially for those who have no idea which blogging platform is right for them. But For the time being, this article won’t be covered all popular blogger platforms but wordpress.com and blogger.com. I tried as much as I could for finding the differences between wordpress.com and blogger.com. If you are familiar with other blogging platforms such as Windows Live Spaces,Live Journal, TypePad and so on, you may contribute your thoughts for finding the differences between all free blogging platforms.
| Wordpress.com | Blogger.com | |
| Free | Yes | Yes |
| No Ads | Almost (On Ads) | Yes |
| Limitation on Ads | Yes.(Adsense and other Ads) | No |
| Export/Import | Yes | No |
| Multiple blogs | Yes | Yes |
| Group blog | Yes | Yes |
| Private blog | Yes (Free for 35 users.Unlimited users is in paid upgards. ) | Yes |
| Custom CSS | No (but yes with CSS upgrade) | Yes |
| Javascript Enabled | No. (Details ~ JS – Can I use that?) | Yes |
| Custom Template | No | Yes |
| Embed Object (eg: Flash) | No ( Ref: Can I add flash?Video?) | Yes |
| Feed (RSS) | Yes | Yes |
| Uploads | jpg, jpeg, png, gif, pdf, doc, ppt | Only images |
| Default Web space | 50 M ( or Extra storage.) | none |
| Custom Domain | Yes | Yes |
| Domain Registration | Yes with paid option | No |
| Domain Mapping | Yes with paid option | Yes (Free) |
| Build-in Stats for web traffic | Yes | No |
| Build-in Stats System For Feed | Yes | No |
| Anti-spam | Akismet | none |
| Posting via Mail | No | Yes |
| FTP/SFTP | No | Yes (not sure) |
| Pinging Service | Ping-O-Matic | Weblog |
| Republishing/Rebuilding | No | No |
| Mobile Enabled | Yes | Yes |
| Common ID | OpenID | Google ID |
| Open Source | Yes | No |
| Links Management | Yes (Very easy) | Yes (not so easy) |
Widget |
Yes | Yes |
| Allow to create new page | Yes | No |
| Update often | Yes | Slow to update |
| Allow to change Blog URL | No | Yes |
Well. Those are the differences that I can think of so far.
If you are not very sure whether you should choose blogger or wordpress.com til now, I’d like to suggest you to try wordpress.com for your blog.
Because ~
- If your blog is gowning bigger and bigger, you might want to move to paid hosting. Then, Wordpress might be the best way to do that. Because you can download the latest version of wordpress from wordpress.org or wordpress MU with free of charges. Then, you can easily export all of your posts and comments to XML file and import it to your new blogs. So, you won’t miss out anything. Plus, If you have custom domain then it’s more easy for you to move your blog to paid hosting. you won’t lost any of your readers. you won’t need to ask anybody to change the feed of your blog or your site’s url.
- Both Wordpress MU or Wordpress are open source so that you can be a part of development team.
Feel free to let me know if you found something that I missed out or you have suggestion/comment for this post.
UPDATE: Blogger supports widget too. (Thanks Myo Chau Htun and Elaine Vigneault )
UPDATE: 6.blogger blogs tend to be more spam blogs/ splogs than wordpress blogs because of the free search engine traffic, the savvy blackhat SEO guys use blogger blogs. (Thanks to Elaine Vigneault )
Thank you!
Credit: I’d like to say thank you to Myo Chau Htun who help me to answer all of my questions regarding Blogger Service.
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April 1st, 2007 at 10:24 am
But I seem to like blogger more coz i think changing templates and stuffs seems more easy on it and the it’s more user friendly i think..
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:58 am
I hate blogger because that bar at the top of the blogs is extremaly annoying.
April 2nd, 2007 at 3:33 am
>>But I seem to like blogger more coz i think changing templates and stuffs >>seems more easy on it and the it’s more user friendly i think.
Changing templates ( customizing templates) is really good.. but you know there are some sad stories behind this. some people can’t do HTML and CSS things and they are not very happy with defaults theme. ( I have no idea why some people don’t wanna use default theme just like that.. ) So, they took other people’s creation without giving any credit. it become a problem.. another thing is also some people customize their themes on their owned ways but what happen is that their customized theme doesn’t work properly in firefox or other browsers except IE. Since we start a public blog which can be accessed by everybody, we shouldn’t assume that all visitors are gonna use IE only.
anyway, it’s just a thought. buddy.. I believe that blogger is created by very huge company “Google” so that blogger might have a lot of good points too..
Personally, I love both Google and Wordpress.
>>I hate blogger because that bar at the top of the blogs is extremely annoying
:)
April 2nd, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Mike,
Widgets are now available in new blogger beta template. It has drag and drop features and now Google keep adding widget elements in blogger template section such as newsreel and google video bar with AJAX feature. (this is updated news)
April 2nd, 2007 at 11:54 pm
The difference between those two is huge. Here’s my personal opinion: if it’s your first blog, go with Blogger. It’s intuitive, simple, easy, FREE and you get automatic traffic without trying. Wordpress.com is fine but you don’t get as many free options.
Ultimately though, I believe it doesn’t matter where you start blogging, just start. It takes a while to develop your writing skills and your voice. Once you have a good idea of what you want to blog about and how you want to blog about it and you’re committed, then you can move to a better option. I started in LiveJournal and now I blog with Blogger and my own hosted WordPress.org blog.
My opinion is that wordpress.org (not wordpress.com) is the best final option and blogger.com is the best starter option. CURRENTLY.
Here are the things you might want to fix on your chart:
1. blogger.com doesn’t make it easy to import or export but there are hacks that allow you to do it.
2. blogger’s anti-spam devices are captchas, moderated comments, or no comments.
3. the new blogger layout is almost identical to widgets
4. blogger blogs are automatically indexed by Google whereas other blogs are not. This means blogger blogs get search engine traffic slightly more easily than other blogs.
5. blogger blogs don’t handle tagging as well as wordpress blogs
6. blogger blogs tend to be more spam blogs/ splogs than wordpress blogs (because of the free search engine traffic, the savvy blackhat SEO guys use blogger blogs)
April 3rd, 2007 at 3:54 am
@Elaine
Thanks a lot.. Elaine.
Yeah. I agreed. Wordpress.org is the best one.. im gonna move my blog to wordpress.org ( paid hosting).. i set up one “http://michaelsync.com” but not sure when i gonna move..
>>1. blogger.com doesn’t make it easy to import or export but there are hacks that allow you to do it.
hacks? why we need a hacks while wp allows people to import or export in very simply way.
>>blogger’s anti-spam devices are captchas, moderated comments, or no comments.
Yeah. blogger has three options for comments. but I think those are not so powerful as “Akismet” (maybe in my op. ) ya. anyway, we can say that blogger also has anti-spam..
>>the new blogger layout is almost identical to widgets
initially, they dont have it.. but ya.. they support widgets now..
I gonna update my list.
>>4. blogger blogs are automatically indexed by Google whereas other blogs are not. This means blogger blogs get search engine traffic slightly more easily than other blogs.
ya.. cuz blogger is a part of google. :) but wordpress global tagging system works pretty well too ..
>>blogger blogs don’t handle tagging as well as wordpress blogs
you mean. we can’t have tags in our blog? OR tagging system??
Actually, wordpress have both. they have Global tagging system.. and they have tag generator created by engtech. but it doesn’t synchronize “wp cat” automatically. but user can update manually and put the “tag cloud” in their blogs.
>>blogger blogs tend to be more spam blogs/ splogs than wordpress blogs
this is good point..
I will update my list now..
Thanks for visiting my blog and your comment.
@Myo Kyaw Htun
Yeah. buddy. I gonna update.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Maybe it’s just me and my super high security settings in Norton, but I switched to wordpress because I often have trouble either logging into blogger or leaving comments on other people’s blogger blogs using my bloggerid.
Still I think wordpress.com is one of the sweetest deals going!
April 9th, 2007 at 2:35 am
Thanks for your comment. vdovault..
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January 7th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
This is a great article. Thanks so much. I find that folks I coach in government settings often have networks that shun, ban and forbid access to blogger. So I teach from wordpress.com. The word BLOG is still a dirty word in some circles.
This was so good that I put it on my bloggingforboomers.com site along with Mr. Bill(smile)
Keep up the great work!
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:41 am
michael, am planning to setup my first blog & am choosing bet blogger & wordpress.com. i would like earn from my blog thru adsense, affiliates, direct ads or sponsors. i would like to encourage discussions & interactions from my readers. i would also want my posts to be sorted or categorized so that my reader can go direct to a category & read all the recent/previous posts/comments for that topic.as a service to my readers, i would like to put a box where readers can posts anything for sale or items they are looking for, future topics they want featured or help they need without cluttering or going off-topic on my regular posts. will appreciate if you could help me on this.
August 15th, 2009 at 4:01 am
I use freeblogzone, I’m sick of blogger and wordpress.
FreeBlogZone.com is a new website, but brings many unique features in which both blogger and wordpress do not have.
They have a great support team, and seem to update things very frequently.