If you can only choose 1, which would you prefer to use, a Blogger blog or a Wor

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   Ceres Schwarzposted 11 years ago

   If you can only choose 1, which would you prefer to use, a Blogger blog or a WordPress blog? Why?
   
   Which of the 2 do you think is better especially in terms of ease of use, income and traffic? What are some of the advantages and disadvantages for using a Blogger or WordPress blog? Which of the 2 would you recommend? Why?

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   NateB11posted 11 years ago

   I would say a Blogger blog; it's just easier to figure out and use and I like their templates; I've monetized some with minimal success. Now, if your talking about Wordpress.com, you can't monetize those blogs anyway. If you're talking about Wordpress for a website, I say it's good but again difficult to figure out when you're a newbie like me. I enjoy my Blogger blogs, though. They're easy to use and I can do pretty much anything I want with them.

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      Ceres Schwarzposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I'm also a beginner to all this so I wasn't sure which was better. It would help if it's easy to use & not hard to understand. But I heard good things about both so it's hard to decide. Oh yeah, I meant the WordPress.org vs Blogger blog.

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   internpeteposted 11 years ago

   I have had a fair amount of experience with blogger blogs and I am very impressed with the platform. I have several blogs and get a lot of traffic to some of them that rank well in Google.
   
   Blogger is free to join, easy to set up, and easy to use. It is a simply platform, but has a lot of nice features that I enjoy, such as being able to customize any template and edit the website code. I also love how connected it is to webmaster tools and google analytics, which are both a must to set up if you are any kind of serious blogger. Both are easy to use with blogger.
   
   I also like how easy it is to monetize the blogs on blogger. I run both Adsense and Amazon ads on my blogs and make easily 10-20 times more from them than what i make here on hubpages.
   
   I have had some experience with Wordpress, but as others have mentioned, it is very important to differentiate between a Wordpress.com free blog, and Wordpress,org website. The free blog from wordpress.com cannot be monetized, and i am not very impressed with it, no reason to use it when you can use blogger for free.
   
   A Wordpress website, which uses all kinds of plugins but requires you to buy a domain, hosting, etc. is the more professional way to go about blogging but there are a lot of initial start up costs and you have to know what you are doing when setting up the website. If you want more flexibility in a blog, and more control of all aspects of it, a Wordpress website is a good option, but it is not free and takes a fair amount of work to get going.
   
   So i prefer blogger for blogging and most other things, but for more professional websites, using Wordpress is a good option. I would not suggest using Wordpress.com. Comment if you got any other questions relating to blogger!

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      Ceres Schwarzposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I did mean the WordPress.org not the .com, guess I forgot to specify that. So, for beginners to this, would you suggest to go with Blogger first? It's good that Blogger is free but would it be better than WordPress.org?

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      internpeteposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Yes, I would go for blogger, especially if you are new at it.

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   bydojoposted 11 years ago

   Both are bad choices. The best idea is to have your own self-hosted wordpress blog and a domain name. Anyway, if you were to choose, Wordpress.com is the way to go. It's closer to your future self-hosted blog and (my opinion), better than blogspot. The bad thing is that you cannot put advertising on it. Anyway, at that stage I'd expect a blogger to be able to invest 25 bucks/YEAR for a small self-hosted wordpress blog

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      Ceres Schwarzposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I did mean to say WordPress.org not .com, guess I forgot to specify that. For a beginner to this blogging thing, which would you suggest, Blogger or WordPress.org? And which would be easier to use? Looks like Blogger is good for being free.

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   TheKatsMeowposted 11 years ago

   When I first started out, I had this same question. I tried out both and was happiest with blogger. Now I am by no means an expert, and I found that blogger was a lot easier to use, and it was also easier to monetize. I am very happy with blogger and still have a site with it. My wordpress blog is is still around but I gave up on it.

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      Ceres Schwarzposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Looks like a lot prefer Blogger, at least the ones that answered so far. I asked because I heard good things about both WordPress & Blogger so wasn't sure which to go with. But it's good to hear Blogger is easy to use & monetize.

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   LindaSmith1posted 11 years ago

   I stick with blogger. You can also purchase a domain name through them, which actually is set up by go daddy for 10 bucks a year.  I can use HTML there. In fact, I think it is easier to use and better than it was a few years ago.
   
   I have not tried the WP that you pay for hosting, domain name, simply because of the issues with plug ins, etc.  I am not a webmaster so I stay away from it.

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      Ceres Schwarzposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Looks like Blogger is the choice to go with especially for beginners like me. I'm still looking into it because I heard lots of good things about both WordPress & Blogger so was unsure which to go with.

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