10 reasons why wordpress is better than blogger

10 reasons why wordpress in better than blogger

1. Free CMS
Wordpress is a powerful open source CMS (content management system). You can use it on your own server space, with complete control of your blog’s content, design and operation by downloading the system free from Wordpress.org.
Most popular hosting space providers already have one-click Wordpress installs so you just have to choose the domain where you want to use Wordpress and you’re ready to go.
With Blogger/Blogspot, you either blog on their servers, or not at all. From a business point of view, what could be better than something you can own, and yet it’s free?
2. Free hosting option
If you’re just starting out in blogging and find domain names and hosting and nameservers very technical, Wordpress gives you the option to try out its ready-to-go free blog hosting service at Wordpress.com. Just register for free, choose your (blogname).wordpress.com and start blogging instantly.
Later, when you want to add more functionality and host the blog on your own server, you can always import all of your posts with one button on your self-hosted Wordpress blog. Blogger also lets you blog easily and for free on yourname.blogspot.com. But you get more features in the free Wordpress by default than you do in Blogger.
If you’re a business where the management wants to first see results and then invest in hosting, start blogging on Wordpress.com – and when it starts to make sense and you want more functionality, import your Wordpress.com blog to your own server space.
3. Web pages, not just blog posts
The most powerful feature for a beginner in Wordpress is the ability to create pages, as you would in a website. So, if you’re an advertising agency, you could use Wordpress to create a blog which has pages like – Credentials, Portfolio, Clients, Testimonials, Contact.
In Blogger, everything you write becomes a post, arranged chronologically in a scroll-down manner. So, either you post everything in diary-like fashion, or you try to use labels/categories to organise your blog.
The ability to create web pages by the click of a button in Wordpress has made it great a cross between a no-frills website maker and a blogging platform that’s intuitive. Wordpress is a hot favourite for internet marketers who use it to create sales pages and sales letter in minutes.
4. Tech and User Support
If you’re using Wordpress on your own server space, you have access to solid documentation for all your issues on Wordpress.org. There are regular updates for the CMS as well as for the plug-ins.
If you’re blogging on the free Wordpress.com service, you will find answers to your queries on the Wordpress.com forums. Plus, there are numerous sites dedicated to Wordpress blogging by Wordpress enthusiasts. You get both tech support and user support with Wordpress. Plus, for all visual support, there’s Wordpress.tv!
Blogger has more glitches in my personal experience than Wordpress and it’s harder to find the right answers quickly to fix Blogger issues. For example, so many times, Blogger keeps displaying options in Arabic with no button on the page to shift to English (just because my IP is from UAE I guess). When you’re blogging for business, you can’t just sit there praying for a miracle – that you start understanding a foreign language because the interface isn’t giving you an option to change it.
5. Free design templates
You have access to hundreds or free templates in with one click installs on Wordpress. This means you can change the entire look of your Wordpress blog/website in seconds without the need to even touch your existing content. It’s just like re-skinning your webpages.
There are hundreds of Wordpress theme developers who will create customised Wordpress themes to suit your brand for a fee. Just one quick search in the Blogger themes list will give a clear idea of how limited you are when it comes to template design in Blogspot.
Wordpress wins hands down with more than 800 free themes on Wordpress’ own directory with over 5,500,000 downloads.
6. Plug-ins
When you self-host your Wordpress business blog, you can keep adding to the blog’s features using free plug-ins. Thousands of them are listed in the Wordpress plugins directory, with download stats and user reviews. Most popular ones have regular upgrades and install in minutes with a few clicks.
Popular plug-ins include ones for SEO, site stats, photo uploads, and these days – enable social bookmarking of your posts and pages. Using the right plug-ins can get you loads of traffic on your business blog and even improve the search engine rankings. Currently there are over 5,500 free Wordpress plug-ins with over 35,290,000 downloads!
7. One-click imports and back-ups
You can back-up the entire contents of your blog with one click on to your hard disk with Wordpress. More interestingly – you can import ALL of your blog posts, users and comments from other blogging services into your new Wordpress blog in minutes when you want to switch over. (Valuable if your job profile at work includes maintaining the corporate blog.)
No tech knowledge needed. Just press a few buttons.
8. Powerful SEO ability
Your posts and pages on Wordpress stand a very high chance of going faster and higher onto search engines. My Wordpress posts very often make it to Google Result #1 on Page #1 for my chosen keywords. This happens on its own when you’re blogging on Wordpress.com if you use your titles and tags properly – Wordpress post tags get archived very well and very fast by Google, and on multiple language pages as well.
If you’re self-hosting, you can set Wordpress to notify Google and pinging services – as many as you like – to ensure that your posts gets archived quickly by search engines. Blogger is owned by Google, and I have seen Blogger posts being spidered and archived faster but you can’t add to which services are notified by Blogger when you post new content.
9. Flexibility of use
Wordpress is not just for bloggers. Wordpress is just so well organised and well structured as a content management system, it is used my news organisations, information portals, marketers, product launch gurus. You’d come across a ‘Powered by Wordpress’ a lot more than ‘Powered by Blogger’.
10. Ownership of content
When you use Wordpress on your own server space, you own the content. You can take it wherever you like – to a better, faster or cheaper host. Blogger owns the database to your content. If your blog is shut down by Google, that’s it. There goes your content. So, in the long run, if you want more functionality, flexibility and control of your content when blogging for your business, choose Wordpress. Blogger is for beginners – Wordpress is when you want to do more than just simple blog posts.