BLOGGER VS WORDPRESS

BLOGGER VS WORDPRESS 

Since Google now owns Blogger, the company offers plenty of Google built-in features, like Adwords, Adsense and Analytics, making the site extremely useful for novice bloggers.Originally started in 1999, Blogger was one of the first user-friendly interfaces for bloggers. Pyra Labs, Blogger’s original creators, started this small company in San Francisco in the middle of the rise of the dot com. After a few years, the company started generating more users and traffic. By 2002, they were pulling in several hundred thousand users. After they were purchased by Google, the site didn’t change much, and they specialize in an interface that is easy to use for bloggers who do not need a ton of bells and whistles.

 

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.

COMPARISON AND CONTRAST 

1. Ownership

blogger

-free, reliable most of the time, and quite enough to publish your stuff on the web

-not owned by you

Wordpress 

-  use a WordPress hosting provider to host your own site

- free to decide how long you want to run it and when you want to shut it down

- own all your data, and you control what information you share with any third party.

2. Control 

blogger

- fine tuned service with very limited tools allowing you to perform only specific tasks on your website

Wordpress 

- open source software, so you can easily extend it to add new features

- There are thousands of wordpress plugins allowing you to modify and extend the default feature set such as adding a store to your website, creating portfolio, etc

3. Appearance 

Blogger

-Blogger by default only provides a limited set of templates to use

-cannot create your own layouts or make modifications

-very low quality non-official blogger template 

Wordpress 

- thousands of free and premium wordpress theme which allow you to create professional looking websites

-plenty of high quality themes which are easy to modify and customize.

4. Portability 

Blogger

- Moving site from blogger is a difficult and complicated task 

-  might lose your SEO (search engine rankings(, subscribers, and followers during the move. Even though blogger allows you to export your content, your data will stay on Google’s servers for a very long time.

Wordpress 

- can move your site anywhere

- can move your Wordpress site to a new host or change the domain name, or even move your site to other content management systems.

5. Security

Blogger

- added advantage of Google’s robust secure platform

Wordpress 

- self responsible for security and backups 

6. Supports 

Blogger

- limited support available for Blogger

- have a very basic documentation and a user’s forum

 - choices are very limited.

Wordpress 

- very active community support system

- online documentation, community forums, and IRC chatrooms where you can get help from experienced WordPress users and developers

- many companies offering premium support

7. Future

Blogger 

 - has not seen any major update since a very long time

- Google Reader, Adsense for feeds, and the possible demise of feed burner being killed by google 

- Google has the right to shut it down anytime 

Wordpress 

- Open Source software 

- future is not dependent on one company or individual

- developed by a community of developers and users

- bright and reassuring

In my own opinion, upon the understanding of both Blogger and wordpress, i think that WordPress is more of a reliable and flexible source of blogging or managing a website.