Wordpress vs Blogger: Differences, Weaknesses, and Strengths

Blogger and WordPress are the two largest free blogging platforms in the world. Actually, there are many other free blog service providers, but because most bloggers around the world use Blogger and WordPress, this time I will try to review the differences, disadvantages, and advantages of Blogger and WordPress.

For those of us who are still confused about choosing Blogger or WordPress, please pay close attention to the following article.

What does WordPress provide?

WordPress.com is one of the free blog hosting providers. Bloggers who register will get a subdomain namablog.wordpress.com. If we are professional bloggers who want blog optimization, of course, WordPress is not a good choice because of several limitations. But if we are beginner bloggers or professional bloggers who want to be pampered in blogging, then WordPress is the right choice.

A free WordPress.com account offers:

• A blog, which can be turned into a full website
• 3GB of free storage for posts and media.
• Publish, is a tool to connect our blog with social networks.
• Free Statistics for visitor tracking.
• Access to hundreds of non-premium themes, many of which can be further customized.
• Access WordPress.com from mobile applications for iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry.

If we want a premium WordPress.com account:

• Custom design ($30 per blog, per year) adds custom CSS (no PHP editing) and fonts.
• Custom Domain ($13 per domain, per blog, per year) removes the wordpress.com part of our URL.
• Domain Transfer Guide ($129 one-off payment) for transferring our WordPress.com site.
• Ad-free ($30 per blog, per year) eliminates the possibility of WordPress.com showing ads on your blog for non-logged-in visitors.
• Premium themes (price per blog for the lifetime of the blog).
• A redirect ($13 per blog, per year) to redirect visitor traffic from namablog.wordpress.com to your new domain.
• Additional disk space (price per quantity) to store other posts and media.
• VideoPress ($60 per blog, per year) for uploading, hosting, and embedding our own videos on our WordPress.com blog.

Then What Does Blogger Provide?

Blogger was acquired by Google in 2003 and has since continued to grow with redesigns and the addition of several new blogger templates. Blogger offers users access to all features. There are no upgrades, and no fees to add a custom domain, and all the customization options on Blogger are available and free.

The features included are:

• A template designer to customize the appearance of our blog.
• Free hosting, free blogger subdomain subdomain.blogspot.com, and the option to use a custom domain (either register through Blogger or
• use hosting/domains that we already have from hosting service providers and other domains).
• Ability to add media to your posts, without compromising maximum storage space.
• Quick access to Google ad schemes.
• Static content pages on your blog.
• Mobile access via iPhone and Android applications, as well as SMS or e-mail blogging.

From the data above, it seems that even though WordPress has a package of plugins and themes, Blogger still offers something more for those of us who are looking for a free blogging service. I personally recommend using Blogger, but it’s all up to each person’s taste.

Blogger vs WordPress: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Factors

Actually, when viewed in terms of SEO, Blogger and WordPress are almost balanced. However, it should be considered that Blogger is a child of Google, which is the largest search engine on the internet.

You can check on search engines, almost all the keywords that are typed, which appear on the first page are Blogger’s blogs, in addition to paid domains and hosting as well as advertisements of course.

Judging from the On-Page SEO facility, Blogger and WordPress have almost balanced features, but again, Blogger is slightly superior.

1. Labels vs. Categories

To divide posts into topic groups, Blogger has a Label feature, while WordPress has a Category feature, which is narrowed down with Tags to make it specific. Posts on blogname.blogspot.com have longer URLs than posts on blogname.wordpress.com, namely: …com/search/label/name-label (blogger), com/category/name_category (WordPress).

There is an assumption that the shorter the URL, the more it is liked by search engines so that it is more likely to be indexed. However, it is actually the relationship between the title of the article/post and the content and theme of the blog that has a greater influence, and Blogger facilitates this by setting the permalink of a post. But if the first expression is true, then WordPress wins for this.

2. Article Sharing Button

Search engines like Google highly value social signals such as the number of shares and likes on articles, and these social signals greatly affect search ranking (SERP).

If we use WordPress, the share button for this article can be accessed via http://domain.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=sharing. Even though it takes a little more effort, we can install this article-sharing button facility by tweaking HTML or JavaScript on Blogger.

Some templates already provide this for free. If the sharing button for this article becomes a reference, then it can be said that Blogger vs. WordPress is balanced.

3. Search Settings by Search Engine

Luckily, Blogger has a very powerful “Setting Preferences” search setting for SEO. This feature is not found in WordPress, even though the Settings Preferences menu is a mandatory tool that must be understood by bloggers so that their blogs are indexed by search engines and appear on page one of Google.

If Setting Preference is the reference, Blogger wins hands down!

4. Google Authorships

Google Authorship is a new Google standard that allows you to display the account owner’s Google+ profile photo next to their writing that appears in search engine results. This actually doesn’t really affect the SERP results, but makes the appearance of our blog content that appears in the SERP more prominent than the results without Google Authorship so that it further “encourages” users to click.

Blogger wins again because WordPress doesn’t have this feature so it has to add installs to the sidebar which is not accurate at all.

5. Visitor Tracking

By using visitor tracking, we can know how successful our SEO tricks are so we can determine future strategies. Blogger with Google Analytics and WordPress with Quantcast are both good in my opinion. So I think the two are balanced in terms of Tarcking Visitor.

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Blogger vs WordPress: User Experience Review

One of the advantages of blogs is the ease of indexing by search engines. Why? A traditional website only has 5-6 pages so the maximum number of indexed by search engines is 5 or 6 times, the rest may be search engines no longer do indexing because there is no additional content.

However, when we create a blog, each post we publish has its own URL. Content that is “fat” allows many search engines to index our blog content, of course, it must be accompanied by SEO optimization. Search engines also like fresh content so regular updates will help us rank better.

In the world of bloggers, the platforms that “dominate” are Blogger and WordPress. Both have fanatical fans based on their respective blogging goals. Some people say that Blogger is better than WordPress, and others argue that WordPress is the best blogging platform. There are advantages and disadvantages to both platforms. Here I discuss the differences between Blogger and WordPress based on the results of “interrogation” in various forums.

Advantages of Blogger Blogs

1. Free and Easy Blogger

Perhaps the biggest advantage of using Blogger.com is that it is free, fast, and easy to use. If you don’t have the money to buy paid hosting to start blogging or want to start a blog just for study purposes, Blogger.com might be the perfect solution.

Blogger allows us to get experience with the world of blogs and websites before deciding to buy hosting. With Blogger.com, we don’t need to buy a domain name or hosting, and it has a very user-friendly interface that doesn’t require any technological skills, with just a click we get what we want.

2. Advantages of Google

Blogger is owned by Google and there are many built-in features and services that new bloggers can find useful.

• Blogger Has Reliable Hosting
• Blogger is hosted on Google servers so you will rarely experience server downtime.
• More Security

Security breaches are far less likely to happen on Blogger blogs than WordPress. Unless our Google account password is stolen. In contrast, WordPress is known for its vulnerabilities and tends to get far more attacks from spammers.

Blogger Indexed Faster

With Google’s “might” behind our blog, we don’t have to wait for blogger’s blogs to be indexed. Google dominates the web so our posts will appear in search engines much faster. Of course, if there are no anomalies.

Google Web Tools

While Blogger is the best platform for beginners to start blogging, it’s worth reconsidering if you want to build a business-scale site or develop your own brand. Or we will be disappointed.

Blogger doesn’t have many important plugins that can improve the function of our blog and limited design features make our blog look like a “bandwagon” in terms of blog design and plugins. Most importantly, blogs we on blogger are owned by Google and the owner can delete it whenever he wants, especially if we commit a violation.

Advantages of WordPress Blogs

WordPress is widely regarded as the best blogging software around, a well-deserved reputation given the features WordPress offers. Keep in mind that there are two types of WordPress, namely the free version on WordPress.com and the paid version on WordPress.org.

I advise you to create a blog on WordPress if your blogging goal is business, because of the Blogger weaknesses above. From design and plugins, WordPress is more varied.

1. Ease of Use

Similar to Blogger, WordPress.com is quick and easy to set up. You can sign up for a free account and become a blogger in minutes.

2. Free Hosting

WordPress.com is hosted and managed by Automattic so we don’t have to worry about money problems to pay for hosting. We also get the domain name in the format yourdomain.wordpress.com. As explained earlier, with only $ 15 we can get our own domain name. Buying a domain I think is necessary if in the future we want to host our blog on paid hosting.

3. Blog Customization and Design

Unlike Blogger, you can control the look and design of your new WordPress.com blog by choosing from one of the free WordPress templates. It’s also possible for us to change the color, text, and layout of our blog so that our blog doesn’t seem like other blogs are following along even with the same template. In blogger, it is also possible, but we have to “war” with HTML code lines to do that.

Weaknesses and Weaknesses WordPress

WordPress with all its advantages still has drawbacks. As the saying goes, nothing is free in this world, everything needs sacrifice.

1. WordPress.com is quite strict on monetization

Many strategies to monetize our blog, such as Google Adsense or affiliates. Unfortunately, that’s not allowed on WordPress.com even though we promote our own product. In the WordPress TOS, it is stated that those who have the right to install Google Adsense on our blog, are not us as blog creators.

2. Plug-In Restrictions

We are not allowed to install plugins to extend the functionality of our blog so basically, we are “stuck” with what they provide.

3. Secret

Actually, WordPress.com is provided for bloggers who want to start blogging from scratch and have to learn the world of blogging in order to create a professional blog/website on WordPress.org. In terms, WordPress.com is a demo of WordPress.org, where the goal of a hobby/personal blog takes precedence over business goals or developing a brand.***