Why Start Blogging with Blogger?
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.
13 Responses to “Why Start Blogging with Blogger?”
chris
Twitter: roezer
on March 7, 2010
What I hate about Blogger is that you can’t edit comments and linking to older posts has tobe done manually
shkhanal
Twitter: icttrends
on March 8, 2010
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?
iWoodpecker@web traffic
Twitter: iWoodpecker
on March 7, 2010
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 =-.
shkhanal
Twitter: icttrends
on March 8, 2010
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.
iWoodpecker
Twitter: iWoodpecker
on March 7, 2010
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
Twitter: icttrends
on March 8, 2010
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.
Peyton Farquhar on March 9, 2010
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 =-.
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ashraf_2003
Twitter: ashraf_2003
on March 25, 2010
may be WP lots of good features but Blogger always has alternatives
Edwin
Twitter: YesVictory
on March 29, 2010
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
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