Blogger Vs. Wordpress - My Experiences

Wordpress Vs. Blogger: Pros & Cons

Others have shared their opinions & experiences on this subject, here are mine:

Generally, I prefer Blogger to start a new blog, since it's simpler and somewhat more user friendly, if you're not a geek.
It's easy to create link lists, if you want them in alphabetical order, and to insert pictures galore, including links in your sidebar.
Blogger is definitely more user friendly for beginners.

On the other hand, Wordpress seems to generate more traffic and there seems to be more of a community there geared to reading what others actually have to say, instead of just showing off one's own geekish know-how.
I'd say the Wordpress community is a little more writer-oriented, and the Blogger community more technology oriented. The raw information is what seems to count more on Blogger, even if that's hard to say in a general way.

Wordpress has its own integrated stats system built in. If you want to find out who read your Blogger stuff, you have to see to it yourself. Which seems to reflect the typical Google attitude behind Blogger, like all those other mega corporations out there, interested in extracting information from and about the user, but how the individual obtains useful information is their own problem. After all, "Use Google!" right?

Thanks for that reminder!

Drawbacks with Wordpress are that it's generally slower, (although it can also take ages for a Blogger page to open if it has tons of links on it), and that some features are missing or way more complicated.

The solution I've come to if you want the best of both worlds is to publish a copy of your post on Wordpress.

Copying and pasting text from your Blogger page will automatically include all the inserted links.

What I like about Wordpress is the categories section.

For that the big plus on Blogger are the sidebar gadgets, that the Wordpress widgets are only slowly catching up with.

The thing about Blogger as with all of Google is that those guys are so big that the individual becomes irrelevant. Once you're that big you can do no other but think in terms of numbers and growth... the whole thing becomes a machine, not a service anymore.

Machines are useful. You can use them to create something, but you can then present your product on a more humane platform, which I consider Wordpress at this point in time.

If you have a website on which to post the link to your blogger, start out with blogger (easy template uploads such as the one for this blog). If you don't, and are dependent on the traffic your blog generates by itself, it's ore recommendable to use Wordpress, unless, of course, you want to join the Corporate game and "monetize" your blog.

If you're not economically interesting for Google Almighty, or worse, you even dare speak your mind about the Monster, the new god of the Internet has its ways to make you disappear forever.

Freedom is no thing for dummies these days.


P.S.: While browsing for an image to illustrate this post, I came across this site with some neat Wordpress templates.