Why Start Blogging with Blogger?

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Blogger and WordPress are no doubt dominating platforms in the blogging universe. Blogger provides some most attractive services all for free. For example, you have a domain name and can’t afford a paid hosting, Blogger can be your first choice. Worried about where to host images? Blogger can be integrated with Picasa so that all the pictures on your posts are stored in Picasa.

Blogger is much flexible and you can modify the html template to incorporate almost all the plugins and widgets essential for effective blogging. There are sufficient blog posts in internet that help to modify template with little knowledge of HTML and CSS. On the top of that, Blogger is improving and started to support some attractive features. The recent addition of Static Pages for Blogger blogs made the platform more attractive.

Intended to monetize blog using Adsense? Blogger will be the most convenient choice. Because both are from Google itself; you find just click and enable support. Different Ads format and other tweaks are available just in Blogger interface.

Recent trends in blogging focused not only on reader friendly features but also commenter friendly commenting systems too. Apart from ‘dofollow’ link back to commenter’s site, the ‘Recent Post’ link of commentLuv made it immediately a hot catch. On one hand it is a back-link for deep link building and on the other, this proved to be an announcement of new post. Third-party comment systems like IntenseDebate offered ready-made commentLuv integration.

These were the best reasons I started blogging with Blogger platform and used it for some time happily until I could afford a paid hosting. When you can afford self hosting there will hardly be anyone not tempted to switch to WordPress.

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12 Responses to Why Start Blogging with Blogger?

  1. chris
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    says:

    What I hate about Blog­ger is that you can’t edit com­ments and link­ing to older posts has tobe done manually

    • shkhanal
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      says:

      If only these two were the prob­lem I’d rather solve easily,

      1. Use third party com­ment sys­tem like IntenseDe­bate on blog­ger blog and they con­ve­niently sup­port com­ment editing.

      2. Use blog edi­tor tools like Win­dows Live Writer that makes much easy to link to older posts.

      BTW, could you please how link­ing to older post is dif­fer­ent for WordPress?

  2. It, prob­a­bly, could be an offtop ques­tion, but what about hav­ing self-hosted site using images stored on blog­ger…? Does it work? Have you tried? And is there any point to do that?

    Let me explain why I ask..

    I’ve fig­ured out, that most of the host­ing providers offer us such pack­ages of ser­vices, where disk space is much less, than the space for the data (traffic).

    E.g. my blog server has 5120 mb of disk space and 250 GB of data space. By now I have used 62.7 mb of disk space.. and my monthly data space doeasn’t exceed 1 GB (e.g. in March I had 9,422 pageviews and 1957 vis­its). This is why I think, that using images stored on other plat­forms could solve the prob­lem of low disk space — espe­cially, when you always use a lot of images.

    Back to the ques­tion: What do you think of the images stored on other blog plat­forms like Blogger?

    PS. You have excel­lent eng­lish skills :) It’s my plea­sure to read your posts.
    iWoodpecker@web traffic´s last blog ..22 Blogs Accept­ing Guest Posts: Only the Best Ones My ComLuv Profile

    • shkhanal
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      says:

      That would be a great idea to use images hosted on blog­ger (in fact its Picasa — the Google ser­vice. Blog­ger does not store images, rather sup­ports inte­gra­tion of Picasa Albums in your posts), espe­cially when you are not able to host images. But that way you will be depend­ing on the third party ser­vice. You should com­pare if that is bet­ter than your own hosting.

      Thank you for the appreciation.

  3. iWoodpecker
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    says:

    I think I should make another com­ment :)

    I’ve just said that you have excel­lent eng­lish skills.. but I have told you before the quite oppo­site thing. So what did you do to improve your lang. skills that fast? Amaz­ing! Really impres­sive work. Is it your friends’ help?

    • shkhanal
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      I’m really happy as you find my lan­guage skill accept­able. Regard­ing the improve­ment, I become more care­fully and made a sec­ond read­ing to avoid those silly mis­takes. Thank you once again for the alert and help­ing me.

  4. I’m using free word­press, and, for every attaboy I like about it, they are all negated by the fact that you can’t use javascript **unless** you bring your own provider. This is great if you’ve got the money (I don’t.) As for Blog­ger, the js prob­lem is solved because even the free ver­sion allows it, but the biggest bitch I have about Blog­ger is that there is a help page that insists .xml files can be imported into Blog­ger, as in, a saved .xml WP blog imported into a Blog­ger hosted blog. Hint: It’s a lie. I’ve con­cluded that this is just Google owned Blogger’s lit­tle pas­sive aggres­sive way to get back at any Word­Press peo­ple who want to import their .xml file into Blog­ger.
    Pey­ton Farquhar´s last blog ..Amaz­ing Ice­bergs My ComLuv Profile

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  7. ashraf_2003
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    may be WP lots of good fea­tures but Blog­ger always has alternatives

  8. Edwin
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    i use blog­ger and am lov­ing it. but wordpress.org seems really good though. like you did, when i get more money ill switch to paid host­ing
    Edwin´s last blog ..How To Browse Blocked Web­sites My ComLuv Profile

  9. 11+ Papers says:

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