Thursday, December 31, 2009

Why to Use Blogger or Blogspot?

You can see that I use Blogger as my primary blogging source on internet. Between many other similar and popular systems, you might ask yourself why I have choose Blogger for my blogs! On this post I will try to show you my recommendations and stats!

Why to Use Blogger to Blog ?

1.) Completely free – This is of course one of the main reasons why I use Blogger to blog! Of course, many other blogging services are free – but read what you get with Blogger in following text.

2.) Advanced Customization – Blogger allows you to customize your blog the way you want to customize it! It’s little bit complicated to customize (compared to other blogging systems), but you can do much more on Blogger definitely with your site design!

3.) Domain Hosting Support – Blogger is service that allows you to host your own domain name completely for free! Other similar systems usually charge this option – but with blogger you can get it for free.

4.) Space and Limitations – With Blogger you get completely free 1 GB image hosting and not limited bandwidth! That’s very good and enough for 99% bloggers.

5.) Scripts, Widgets and Gadgets – Blogger have collection of some good and quality widgets and gadgets that you can use! Including support for scripts and advertisement codes. Allowing you to fully customize and put on your site whatever you need.

6.) Comments, Moderation, Categories and Archives – Blogger supports comments and comment moderation as long like Categories and Archives – Everything you need to have on your blog.

7.) Secured – Blogger is free hosting service for blogs owned by mighty Google – It’s very secure and trusted service – much more secured than self-hosted systems.

8.) Collaboration Support – Blogger have very good collaboration feature that allows you to have multiple moderators that can post / edit your blog.

Conclusion
Blogger have many advantages to other free-hosting services, as well few misses that should be fixed in near future. I really don’t like blogger SEO functions. By default Blogger doesn’t have any SEO based functions and options – like Wordpress have for example.

Blogger is little more confusing than Wordpress, and it’s not quite good for absolute beginners! Template designs which comes default with Blogger are not professional and they are so oldish! I hope that Google team will fix that in our near future, because with little more improvements they can be much more comfortable and professional.

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