Wordpress vs Blogger Which is Better ? Advantages & Disadvantages

Today we are going to talking about the most frequently asked questions by newbies who most of them are confused whether to choose Blogspot or Wordpress for theirs blogging careers. Blogger and Wordpress have becomes some of the most popular and prominent platforms in modern era. There are millions of users on the internet using blogger & wordpress CMS systems. But for a single author it becomes very difficult to say which one is better & has more potential than other one.

However it has been discussed many times by pro bloggers and some of them recommended that wordpress is better due to its professional features while most of them have a strongly voiced that blogger is the top CMS and seo friendly platform which should be used for blogging journey.

Wordpress vs Blogger

Which is Better ?

Advantages & Disadvantages

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Advantages of Wordpress

SEO friendly: Wordpress is used by all popular bloggers using it because it has tons of plugins for SEO. Wordpress has tons of seo plugins which help to rank it well in search results. There are uncountable SEO plugins available for wordpress platform.

Tons of  Plugins in General: There are tons of plugins available for wordpress blog. These plugins make the blog more easily customizable, can create better social engagement, connect the blog other sites like Triberr or AtContent or MyBlogGuest so the blog is amplified to other sites. You can also create xml sitemaps which make it perfect for search engines robots to find you. With Blogger you are limited to the number of plugins you can use.

You Own your site: Assuming you use a self-hosted wordpress and install the wordpress from wordpress.org to your webhosting provider like HostGator, Blue Host, DreamHost you have full control of your site. If you site is hosted by wordpress.com you still have more freedom than Blogger but you may be restricted to the terms of wordpress.com

Template Collections: There are Hundreds of default templates inside wordpress platform. Wordpress has more than 70+ built-in professional templates and tons more templates that you buy for very little money down. You have the freedom to set it up any way you want.

Easy To Use: Wordpress usability is matching up  to Blogger. A newbie blogger can easily operate WordPress blog in a seconds because it has simple layout and easy to navigate.

Disadvantages Of Wordpress

Difficult To Customize Theme: This is one of the biggest problem that you cannot easily customize CSS/Html inside wordpress template. Wordpress template mostly codded in PHP language which is very difficult to edit or customize.

Purchase Web-Hosting: Wordpress does not provide free web-hosting you have to spend 20$ for hosting and 10$ for domain name which could be not easy for common person who doesn't the money to throw down.

Security-Hacking:  Wordpress is not secure as blogger and it very very difficult to maintain proper security for wordpress blog. Thousand of wordpress sites hacked by hackers using hacker software.

35 Blogs Per Accounts: you can create 35 blogs on each wordpress account. exceeding the limit you will have to delete your older blogs. while on the other hands we can easily create 100 blogs per account in blogger.

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Advantages of Blogger

Html/Css Designing: One of the biggest reasons people like blogger platform by having full customization only in Css or Html. We can easily customize our blog according to our needs by doing a little customization inside the blog template. So we could easily turn our blog to professional view by playing only with CSS or HTML

Providing Free Hosting: This is the second major benefit why most of bloggers using blogger platform. because it providing free web-hosting you do not need to pay for web-hosting.. You just only need to buy a custom domain name.

100% Trustworthy Server: Being a Blogger you should must stay your blog live on every 7/24 hours. Do,not worry it is automatically secured by Google. While due to google server your blog will stay alive each 7/24 hours.

UN-Hackable: You already know that Blogger is own by Google and Google is the #1 tech company throughout the world. So it is solely secured by Google Official from all types of damages or hacking resources.

SEO Friendly: Blogger is  SEO friendly and robot lover because it is owned as a product of Google so Google recognizes it very well above all of others.

Blog Speed: However we have personally received dozens of comments from wordpress user about why wordpress blogs take more time in loading  page than Blogger Blogs. There are many reasons for this. One of the best answers is that blogger blog is simply coded in Xml/Html and CSS while Wordpress blog is created in Php. So blogger will always one step forward than wordpress in this regard.

Google Owned: You already know that bloggers is Google's platform so it will make blogger blog SEO friendly for all popular search engines that rely on Google's Data.

Easy Customization Template: You might have heard that Blogger template is fully prepared in Html/Css and Xml so it becomes very easier to customize it template.

Disadvantages of Blogger

Lack Of Hosting: One of the biggest problem by using blogger platform is it web-hosting management. You are not allowed to customize and operate with these data ( hosting ) because they have been hosted on Google servers. You could not make any changes inside the blogger hosting.

Lose Rank Quickly: This is one of the oldest problem in Blogger platform whenever you do not publish for a week or some days then your blog will continuously lose ranking and will have less Google Juice. It mostly depend on how often the blog  is updated. Without updating your blog will lose the rank if it has been hosted on Blogger platform.

Difficult SEO Strategies: Proper SEO is the key to success for every blog & website. In blogger platform you will have to do alot of manually SEO it doe not provide us SEO plugins like wordpress blog. So it much difficult for blogger user to apply proper SEO strategies on blogger blog.

No Compatibility with popular Language: As we have already learned that Blogger template is created in Html/Css and Xml so there is no way to embed Php or Asp coding inside blogger template. Blogger platform is limited in comparison.

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Tell us why you love Blogger or why you love Wordpress and what are some of the best things you like about them in the comments below !!