Editor's note: "This is merely an opinion piece of a blogger fan."
The misconceptions about Blogger are very damaging and it's high time someone debunks them. These misconceptions must be put to bed.
If you're new to blogging and you're wondering what blogger is. Blogger is a blog publishing service. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. It is now owned by Google and all blogger blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Bloggers are allowed to set-up a custom domain [www.example.com] for their blogs.
I would like to linger on the above subject for a while but it'll be best we conclude else we shall digress from the subject at hand.
This article is about Blogger vs WordPress and why you must choose Blogger. We shall also debunk some popular misconceptions about Blogger in this post.
REASONS WHY YOU MUST CHOOSE BLOGGER
Free
Blogger allows its users to use their own custom domain for free of charge. Last time I checked, WordPress.com charges around $13 to use a custom domain. Bloggers also receive free hosting from Google.
Search Engine Friendly
Google blogs are search engine friendly. The user only has a little responsibility to get it search engine optimized.
Easy
Blogger is sometimes referred to as the 'Beginners Content Management System'. Blogger has that label because it's easy to use. Blogger is the number one recommended CMS for every beginner.
Secure
With blogger, you have the advantage of Google’s healthy security platform. There's no need to worry about managing your server’s resources, securing your blog, or creating backups.
POPULAR MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT BLOGGER DEBUNKED
Ownership: There's an assertion that blogs hosted on blogger are owned by Google and since Google runs the service - it can shut down the blog or take away your access to it at any time.
This is not true! Google doesn't own your blog. If you're using a custom domain on blogger, you're the OWNER of the blog and you can move it whenever you want. Even blogspot webmasters can export their blog content at any time.
Customization: There's an assertion that blogger only provides a limited set of templates and that custom blogger templates are of low quality.
This is false! There are thousands of great free and premium themes available for bloggers. They are high quality [SEO] themes which are very easy to customize.
Publishing: There's another assertion that bloggers or blogspot owners cannot automatically publish their blog posts to social networking sites or other services.
This is also not true! There are a lot of great excellent tools to automatically publish your blog posts to many social networks.
We could go on arguing but let's conclude here for the sake of brevity. Have something on mind to share? Post it in the comments section.
The misconceptions about Blogger are very damaging and it's high time someone debunks them. These misconceptions must be put to bed.
If you're new to blogging and you're wondering what blogger is. Blogger is a blog publishing service. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. It is now owned by Google and all blogger blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Bloggers are allowed to set-up a custom domain [www.example.com] for their blogs.
I would like to linger on the above subject for a while but it'll be best we conclude else we shall digress from the subject at hand.
This article is about Blogger vs WordPress and why you must choose Blogger. We shall also debunk some popular misconceptions about Blogger in this post.
REASONS WHY YOU MUST CHOOSE BLOGGER
Free
Blogger allows its users to use their own custom domain for free of charge. Last time I checked, WordPress.com charges around $13 to use a custom domain. Bloggers also receive free hosting from Google.
Search Engine Friendly
Google blogs are search engine friendly. The user only has a little responsibility to get it search engine optimized.
Easy
Blogger is sometimes referred to as the 'Beginners Content Management System'. Blogger has that label because it's easy to use. Blogger is the number one recommended CMS for every beginner.
Secure
With blogger, you have the advantage of Google’s healthy security platform. There's no need to worry about managing your server’s resources, securing your blog, or creating backups.
POPULAR MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT BLOGGER DEBUNKED
Ownership: There's an assertion that blogs hosted on blogger are owned by Google and since Google runs the service - it can shut down the blog or take away your access to it at any time.
This is not true! Google doesn't own your blog. If you're using a custom domain on blogger, you're the OWNER of the blog and you can move it whenever you want. Even blogspot webmasters can export their blog content at any time.
Customization: There's an assertion that blogger only provides a limited set of templates and that custom blogger templates are of low quality.
This is false! There are thousands of great free and premium themes available for bloggers. They are high quality [SEO] themes which are very easy to customize.
Publishing: There's another assertion that bloggers or blogspot owners cannot automatically publish their blog posts to social networking sites or other services.
This is also not true! There are a lot of great excellent tools to automatically publish your blog posts to many social networks.
We could go on arguing but let's conclude here for the sake of brevity. Have something on mind to share? Post it in the comments section.