Since inception of my first blog, I have been using Blogger as blog hosting service. There are pretty simple reasons for it
1. No cost involved
2. Very easy for new bloggers to set up their blogs [few steps to start posting]
3. Google search engine indexes blogger blogs very quickly and blogger blogs have higher SERPs for sure.
4. And there are many more…
But once you are experienced blogger [I donot call myself experienced blogger though I blog since 2003 but still I do have fair enough knowledge to run my blogs successfully and help people to make their blogs effective and earn money out of it]
Then what’s the need to even think about Wordpress blogs? See, first of all you would need to buy your own web hosting and then install wordpress. I am very happy to mention here that most of the web hosting services like Dreamhost or Godaddy offer wordpress under one-click installable software. So at least, you need not to worry about installation efforts. Yeah, but take care of the web hosting cost factor and try to get a sponsor for your web hosting possibly.
Still, I am thinking to move to Wordpress. I introspect and try to find out why I am doing it. Is it because all blogosphere is thinking to move to wordpress one or the other day? Is it because I am impressed of Wordpress design templates? Is it because I can do much more with wordpress than blogger? Is it because I can have my blog under my own domain name? But blogger also offers it now a days, isn’t it? Then why…
I am impressed with control I will get on my blog. Exactly! The various wordpress plugins I can install and have my blog designed and developed the way I wish. Right now I am using few wonderful plugins [which I will share soon with you] and wordpress’ stat tracking impresses me much. Very effective spam filtering, having your own pages etc are some of them. Let me get in Wordpress!
Update: Kevin @ Blogging Tips held a debate on this, one shall get to read some useful comments on this topic.
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Great I also am using wordpress the Plugins available are Great. I am still new at blogging my self. Had some really going blogs on wordpress.com and they deleted them. Oh Well Now I will host my own. And why not promote your own domains makes Good Sense. Great Article
I have been marketing on the Internet since 1994 and I tell you what Blogs are Powerful. Like blogs better than websites The search engines just love them. And Good for us.
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