BlogSpot Vs WordPress Comparison

Today we are going to talking about the most frequently questions asked by newbies many times & sometime most of them confused for a long time to choose BlogSpot or WordPress for theirs blogging careers. Blogger and WordPress becomes the most popular and prominent platform in modern era. There are millions of users on the internet using blogger & WordPress CMS systems. However, 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.

WHAT IS BLOGGER?

Blogger is owned by Google. It is a platform allows you to create blogs. You can use it for your personal or business use. Since it is owned by Google, then it might be a great choice (as it is a common notion today that all Google’s products are amazing).

Major Advantages of Blogger Platform

Html/CSS: The biggest reason people like blogger platform is by having full customization in CSS or Html. We can easily customize our blog according to your needs by doing a little customization inside the blog template. Therefore, 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. It providing free web hosting therefore you do not need to pay anything. You just only need to buy a custom domain name and spend time to write posts.
100% Trustworthy Server or 99.99% uptime: 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.
SEO Friendly: Blogger is all the time SEO friendly and robot lover because it is own product of Google so google recognize it very well than all of others.
Blog Speed: However we have personally received dozens of comments from WordPress user that why WordPress blog is taking more time in loading page than Blogger Blog. There are many reasons. One of the best answer is that blogger blog is simply coded in Xml/Html and CSS while WordPress blog is created in PHP. Thus, blogger will always one-step forward than WordPress.
Google Owned: You already know that bloggers is google platform so it will make blogger blog seo friendly for all popular search engines.
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.
User-friendly interface: the interface is quite easy to use and any newbie can easily get familiar with the tools.
A place for newbies: if you are just starting to explore the world of blogging, then Blogger is the best place to be.
Maximum security: if it is owned by Google, then it should have a very tight security. Google is known to be almost hack-proof and they have the latest tools, software, and programs to ward off hackers and other malicious activities.
Easy integration of other Google Products: Google’s primary aim is to be everything for you. Therefore, you can easily connect your Blogger website to other Google products such as Gmail, YouTube, Google+, Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools, and more. This is truly convenient, as you do not have to create separate accounts.
Google AdSense Integration – if you are aiming to monetize your blog site, then you will surely love the Google AdSense Integration. AdSense is the number one third-party advertising company today and it has the largest pay-per-click rates.

Disadvantage of Using Blogger

Lack of Hosting: One of the biggest problem by using blogger platform is it web-hosting management. You do not allow customizing and operating with these data (hosting) because they have been hosted on google servers. We could not make any changes inside the blogger hosting.
Google owns your website: according to their terms of service, Google has the freedom to use your work. They can also change features and functionalities of Blogger without your consent. This is the primary disadvantage of Blogger.
Lacks of plugins: plugins are very important software to extend the functionality of your website and Blogger does not have enough plugins to allow you to personalize your website.
Limited number of blogs: you can only upload 100 blogs per account; however, the number of your posts is unlimited.
One permalink structure: your URL link’s structure can be only displayed only as http://www.domainname.com/YYYY/MM/Post-Name.html
Limited page size: you can only use 1MB of file size in each of your page.
Limited storage space: there is a 1GB limit for storage space. You can get up to 15GB shared storage if you upgrade to G+. You can check your storage status here.
Less advanced features: just like many other people say, you cannot really do anything you want with Blogger compared to WordPress. To view more limits on blogger, click here.

WHAT IS WORDPRESS?

There are two WordPress products; WordPress.com (free) and WordPress.org (self-hosted). However, in this post, I am going to talk about Wordpress.org, the self-hosted one that allows you to start a blog site with full control as you have your own hosting & own domain.

Major WordPress Advantages

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 that help to rank it well in search results. There are uncountable SEO plugins available for WordPress platform.
Tons of SEO Plugins: There are tons of plugins available for WordPress blog. These plugins make the blog SEO friendly and make it perfect for search engines robots.
Template Collections: There are Hundreds of default templates inside WordPress platform. WordPress has more than 70+ built professional templates, which are well known for robots, & having awesome designing.
Easy To Use: WordPress is matching up like Blogger. A newbie blogger can easily operate WordPress blog in a seconds because it has simple layout and easy to navigate.

Disadvantages of Using 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 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.
Security Hacking: WordPress is not secure as blogger and it very difficult to maintain proper security for WordPress blog. Thousands 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.
Hosting cost: you will have to pay for your hosting (monthly or yearly).
Needs backing-up more often: Since WordPress is not that secure, you should backup your files just in case of hacking or system failure. There are some WordPress plugins available to do an automatic backup or your host may offer this.
For intermediate users: since there are more features in WordPress, you need more time to explore and be familiar with the features.

Therefore, The Winner Is …

To end our comparative review, we need to decide which is really better.

If truth were told, there is no one-size-fits-all answer here and the answer is clearly a case-to-case basis. To answer this question, you need to look into yourself and assess your need, preference, and budget.

If you like, simplicity and less hassle, I would recommend Blogger. However, if you are aiming to establish yourself in blogging business in the future, then WordPress is perfect for you.