WordPress vs. Google Blogger for your Blogging Needs

Which is a better platform for your blog?

When I first started blogging a quick and dirty comparison between WordPress and Google's Blogger showed that I could create a blog with Blogger without buying a manual and dedicating hours of internet research. The same could not be said of WordPress.

• WordPress is a tool kit that appeals to the professional blogger and graphic artist because of the infinite amount of tweaking that can be done to the blog with the tool kit.
• Blogger allows you to do things quick and dirty. 
• To publish your WordPress blog to the internet you must have a domain or you can buy one from WordPress.
• Blogger will give you a domain for free.
• A cottage industry has sprung up around WordPress offering templates that can be purchased and downloaded if you are not familiar with creating your own.
• Blogger seems to have less of a marketplace feel with many free templates available for the searching.
• WordPress requires some free software installation.
• Blogger requires nothing more than a connection to the internet and an internet browser.   
• WordPress blogs are not indexed for searches automatically by Google. You must add code to aid Google finding your blog.
• Guess which blog tool gets automatically searched by Google? Your blog using Blogger, as part of the Google family, is automatically indexed to be searched by Google.   

I suggest you start out with Blogger. If you become frustrated with the amount of control you have or lack thereof, or how your blog looks and feels, move on to WordPress. WordPress has a tool that allows the importation  of blogger entries into WordPress, so the transition is easy.