Comments on: Blogger or WordPress? I now recommend Blogger

By: Haidi is expertised in make money now

Haidi is expertised in make money now — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:40:44 +0000

my opinion is blogger is great place for blog due to it is free and can make money via link marketing.

By: Dan Buell

Dan Buell — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:22:18 +0000

I’m in between blog hosts perpetually because they all have strengths and weaknesses. Typepad is dated and expensive. Wordpress is cool but limited. Blogger has wide open functionality but the absolute ugliest templates in the blog-world. Vox is cool but their media libraries cannot be organized nicely (neither can Flickr) - it’s frustrating. Looking for one host that has it all. Why Blogger/Google is putting any money into functionality and not addressing their ugly templates escapes me…

By: Ahmed

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By: Elliot Lee

Elliot Lee — Mon, 21 May 2007 06:23:22 +0000

Larissa: it depends on how I’m linking to them. If it’s in a blogroll or similar list, I would use the blog’s name. If it’s within a sentence where the person’s name fits more naturally, then I would just link his or her name. Personally, I hope people link to my site with my name so that search engines will find it more relevant when people search for me

By: Larissa

Larissa — Sun, 20 May 2007 19:38:10 +0000

Glad to hear that you approve of blogger. Random question about blogging - when linking to other people’s bogs, how do you personally determine what to list as the site’s name? I’m torn between either listing the person’s actual name (i.e. Larissa Marks, especially if I know them personally) and listing the person’s site title (i.e. The Larissa Monologues). I’m inclined to simply use whatever the title of the blog, since that seems like the best indication of how the blogger identifies his/her blog. It probably boils down to the individual blogger’s preference, but I wanted to get your thoughts.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:06:35 +0000

I’m currently sort of in between blog providers at the moment (long story), and the only think keeping me from making the switch to WordPress is the whole AdSense/custom-HTML/Java thing. I’ve checked the WordPress FAQ to figure out how to have my blog hosted on my own server, because I’m assuming that’s the way to get around it, but couldn’t find anything.

So what’s the procedure for getting a WordPress blog hosted on my own server and then customizing it with extra widgets? Or have I misunderstood something? I mean, your blog says that it’s powered by WordPress and yet you have AdSense ads in it.

Alternatively, I’d like to get a better looking 3-column template into Blogger, but I’ve made a couple of attempts at uploading templates without much luck (hence the “in between blog providers” thing because I need to rebuild my Blogger blog now…).

Thanks!
Grey

By: ArcaneCode

ArcaneCode — Tue, 01 May 2007 04:50:00 +0000

While it’s true Wordpress charges a fee, it’s a whopping 10 (US) dollars a year. For 15 (US) dollars they’ll also include domain name registration. So to me cost is a trivial issue. Indeed, I happily pay the few dollars to get the excellent statistics Wordpress provides.

You also make a point on corporate stability. I have to grant you that Google is more stable than wordpress, but look at scale, it’s like IBM is more stable than Dell. I don’t think any of them are going anywhere anytime soon.

The core issue is more about the purpose of your blog. If you want your blog to be a revenue stream via AdSense, and you don’t want to host it, then you pretty much go eblogger. If on the other hand you are not looking to make money, then wordpress would seem to make more sense, considering the services they provide (templates, stats, etc.).

Arcane

By: Jagadish

Jagadish — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:58:31 +0000

If you can really host your own blog, I think wordpress is the best choice. There are customized adsense templates which are so much better than the ones you get on blogger. I’ve done enough experimentation with both and I feel that wordpress plugins completely win over blogger template customization by a huge margin. Of course, there is an inherent charm to the way wordpress works. Its so much better looking and has so many nice things embedded into it(like the “more” tag) which requires template editing in blogger. But ofcourse if you want to free blog with all the customizations, then blogger is the way to go.