I know, I know – I love WordPress enough that I am really hardcore about persuading people to using WordPress.org self-hosting, especially for those investing in a domain and hosting. I even recommend it for the free hosting on WordPress.com.
I want to ask those using Blogger – why are you still using it?
Once you get a your own domain, it would be much easier to maintain your website. Matt Cutts even uses WordPress. Yeah, blogger is free, but for business owners, you always want more control over your site.
What? More control?
Yep, that is the number one thing I hear from business owners. While a business owner might not use everything on the site’s backend, they still like that luxury of freedom. WordPress offers that freedom to do what you want. That is the beauty of Open Source software.
WordPress is a CMS (content management system), not blog software alone like it was notoriously known for in its early days. While it might seem intimidating, it really is not. This just means that you can do a lot more things than just having a blog.
Coding a theme is not difficult. WordPress.org provides detailed documentation and the community itself has loads of resource sites fill with tutorials and code snippet tricks.
I have even worked with clients who have used other CMS like Joomla and Drupal, and it was hands down, far more user-friendly and easier to run a WordPress powered site. WordPress even allows Blogger users to import their posts when they want to convert. How nifty, right?
What I want do is open the floor and allow Blogger users to ask questions or place their concerns on why they have not taken that step to choose WordPress for self-hosting? What is it that you think WordPress cannot do for you? Are you afraid of losing SEO value or even traffic? Are you uncertain about learning WordPress, which in the long run will save you time? Why are you still using Blogger?
Many people use blogger because they are immediately introduced with this blogging platform when they search on google (no wonder, its a google property…) and maybe because of its simplicity. WordPress can be overwhelming for some beginners.
Of course it would be up there. Though I am not sure why when there are many more users- now over 3 million more since MSN sent their users to WordPress.
I have been in the process of making videos for WordPress newbies to get them through the basics. While some of them may be no brainers, I do agree… those who are not very savvy online may be quite intimidated. Hopefully I can provide a helpful solution to eliminate this.
I used to use Blogger and FTP publishing so I could integrate by blog side-by-side with my existing website. A little over a year ago I started looking into WP and fell in love, especially the developer in me.
Finally, I was forced push everything to WP when Blogger shut down FTP publishing because they reported less than 5% of their user based was publishing with that model.
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I like Blogger because it allows me access to HTML, which is in my opinion a great advantage over other providers, of course, if you know how to use HTML. You can take a template, but would like to change some things, O.K only access to the HTML, and customize how you want.
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WordPress allows it too, even down to the layout editor itself. Blogger is very limited in this and not as user-friendly to get to each part to edit.
Blogger is a good blogging tool for less computer savvy users. It's extremely ease to use and understand. But once you get your blog popular and good ranked and your blogging /internet skills are better It's logical to change the platform – WordPress / Text Pattern – both have its advantages and disadvantages.
But the process of transferring PR can be very long. As far as I know you can't use 301 redirect there. So you have think about the ways – duplicate post to your new blog, announces, "we moved" sticky and wait wait wait.
That's not a good thing for such bloggers, so they prefer to stay on blogger.
By the way – WordPress is Blog CMS, that's it. Yes there are a lot of plugins to make almost everything you want from wp, but it was created for blog purposes and optimized for blog purposes. There tons of other products optimized for: magazines, e-stores, portals, social networks.
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Actually WordPress, even on their .com free version is a lot easier than Blogger. I have tried Blogger to check it out and Blogger fails on user-friendliness hands down. If you are moving your blog to WordPress, might suggest if you are rolling out your site in stages as it gets more popular, to use the domain mapping option, and then when you get your own web hosting, to transfer. This will create a seamless move.
Blogger is very easy to use even a newbie can use it. I love blogger
I use Blogger just for Advertising..nothing more, but WordPress and Domain together gives us Powerful tool. So, like Squidoo and Blogger …. and many other ,we can use them, but much more powerful or better is something like WordPress. Blogger is easy for use, for newbies is perfect. On Blogger you have Option for by your Domain, too….so, somebody loves WP, somebody don't… but we all posts everywhere !!
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I use Blogger for some blogs and WordPress for others. I like Blogger for the advertising, as well. It's very easy to monetize a blog with Blogger. I don't find WordPress really offers me much in the way of practical features that I can't get with Blogger. I do enjoy both platforms, but my newest blogs have been on Blogger and I would say if I had to choose between the two, I'd take Blogger. I also have found getting indexed on Google is unsurprisingly quicker using Blogger, and have seen that echoed quite often online.
Using WordPress for some of my blogs… It is relly very simple to install, customize under my needs and control the work. Used the Blogger couple of times. Nise CMS but the sustem of themplates are quite hard for the beginner
Blogger is an powerful and at the same time easy-in-use platform. That's why it's very popular among the beginners. But for sure yiu want to be a professional blogger it's more reasonable to use a standalone blog with CMS, because it gives much more flexibility.
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I am still using blogger because it is free . I don’t have enough money to pay for wordpress every month.
Well I have blogs that is using wordpress and other is in blogger. I should say that blogger is easy to use but I still prefer wordpress since it is highly customizable.