Which is the top rated blogging platform. Blogger or WordPress? It is Definitely WordPress.It is not my finding, but about 60 million people around the world chosing WordPress to post there articles, In bloggee it is limited to 5.6 million users.But WordPress compare with Blogger, Basically two platforms are many difference, what are your needs that based on a choosing right blogging platform.WordPress have Thousands of Themes and Plugins, It have better Author friendly interface and Advanced dashboard, example You can add a keyword density plugin in your WordPress dashboard. But Blogger have many different features their give unlimited bandwidth free hosting and solid protection in our files. So we can select which one likely our prefer.
Lets' look the basic features of Blogger and WordPress
Basic Features of WordPress and Blogger.
Features
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WordPress
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Blogger
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Hosting
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Premium Hosting
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Free hosting
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Domain Name
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Custom Domain
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Free Sub domain / Custom Domain
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Supported Web languages
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HTML/PHP/Java Script/JQuery/CSS
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HTML/Java Script/JQuery/CSS
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Plugins
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Supported
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Not Supported
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Blogger advantages
- Free hosting
- Give unlimited bandwidth
- Easy-to-use for beginners
- There is no limit on the number of posts one can have in one blog
- Solid protection in our files
- Integration with Google+, so easy to share your post
- Number of simple gadgets that you can use to improve your sidebar
- Blogger supports Google's AdSense service as a way of generating revenue from running a blog for free hosting plan
- Blogger also started integration with Amazon Associates in December 2009, as a service to generate revenue
Blogger disadvantages
- Not support premium hosting. Basically Google owns it
- Not SEO friendly
- Not support plugins
- Blogger have only basic options for writing.
- No Comment Moderation
- Only 1GB Worth Of Picture Storage
- Page Size Limit Set At 1MB
- No access to FTP
WordPress advantages
- Support plugins
- Have Thousands of Themes and Plugins
- Advanced dashboard
- More professional look
WordPress disadvantages
- Not have a free hosting plans
- Not solid files (self care hackers and viruses
- Make custom themes are very hard to beginners
- Blogger does not supports Google's AdSense service as a way of generating revenue from running a blog for free hosting plan
WordPress is support front-end web developing and premium hosting but security is not solid for beginners, WordPress have many plugins for protect your blog, so blogger have solid free hosing and unlimited bandwidth, blogger support only static web languages (not support server side coding).Blogger is free service but it have premium like features, It support a custom domain name and Free hosting (Unlimited static files, images, Solid protection).WordPress have Great community support for making better professional blogs than blogger. Thousand of premium themes and premium plugins for help rapid growth of your blog.PHP support Front end web development and Server Side coding. conclusion :-
These two blogging platforms are much better when comparing with other Blogging platforms like Tumblr, Medium,etc. You can chose which is right platform is better for you. I am recommending to choose blogger for beginners and who looking to make revenue from Google’s AdSense and integration with Amazon Associates (this is available in WordPress also but not for free hosting plans)