Among the several free blogging platforms available these days, Blogger.com (Blogspot) and Wordpress.com are the 2 most popular ones. I have never felt a need to try any other free blog hosting service, besides these platforms. Let us now compare the various features of blogger.com and wordpress.com including their pros and cons (Blogger vs Wordpress).
| Features | Blogspot | Wordpress |
|---|
Templates
and Design | Blogger now possess extremely powerful template designer. Besides you can use and edit the thousands of free templates available in the internet as per your taste.
| There are limited templates made available by wordpress.com itself which doesn't allow editing the template without any upgrades. |
| Traffic Statistics | Blogger now displays visitor stat in the dashboard along with other informations and maps and graphs. Besides you can use other scripts for tracking. | No scripts are allowed but the dashboard shows 2 days of statsand daily, weekly and monthly graphs. |
| Import blog | You can import only another blogger.com blog. | If you have posts or comments in another system (Blogger, Yahoo! 360, TypePad, MovabIeType, Posterous, Vox.com, LiveJournaI or another WordPress blog.), WordPress can import those. |
| Storage | 1 GB | 3 GB + Upgrade available for more space |
| Custom domain redirection | Free | Upgrade required |
| SEO | Provides more flexibility | Limited |
Categories
and Tags | Same | Separate |
Automatic
Future Publishing | Yes | No |
Upload
Files | Only images and videos | Images, Videos, .ppt, .doc, .pdf and more. |
| Contact forms | Not available but you can add a 3rd party contact form. | Inbuilt feature that can be used by adding a tag to a page or post. |
| Backup | No | Yes |
| Private blogs | You can restrict access to invited Google account holders. | Without Upgrade:
You can restrict access to 35 invited Wordpress account holders. |
| Javascript and Adsense | Yes | No |
| Comments | Comment form can open as popup or can be embedded below post. Confirmation, moderation and spam filter are the available features. Besides, 3rd party comment plugin like Disqus comments can be used. | Moderation, comment editing and Akismet spam protection. |
You should choose blogger.com if:
- You are thinking of earning by easy monetization of your blog with google adsense
- If you want a custom domain mapping for your free hosted blog
- You want a variety of templates to choose from
You should choose wordpress.com if:
- You want to share your content in healthy blogging community
It's easy to quit smoking than to quit blogging :). Happy Blogging.
No comments:
Post a Comment