Entrepreneurs, Webmasters and Bloggers - Which Blogging Platform Is Best For You?
It's an issue that must be addressed: If you sell a product, provide a service, run an e-commerce site or moderate an interactive forum, you have a choice of blogging platforms. These include Blogger, WordPress, Typepad and a number of others.
Blogger is the easiest to use, is completely modularized, but does not offer much in the way of service to SEO and publicize (or to otherwise enrich) your blog and posts. But then, being a cynic, I believe that since Blogger is owned by Google (as are many blogging accessories, applications and tools), that Google might secretly have a bit of extra juice programmed into its ranking algorithm (which is as secret as the Coca Cola recipe) which favors the .blogspot (Blogger) crowd. By the way, here's some interesting trivia -- while I cannot give you the recipe for Coca Cola, I can say that the recipe for Dr. Pepper is identical to the one for Coca Cola, with the addtion of one ingredient -- and that ingredient is prune juice. Hence the unofficial nickname for the beverage: "Dr. Pooper."
Their Blogger templates are limited, they have a knack for freezing up just before you've saved or published your post, so that you must back up your work, and they are not too friendly in terms of snagging graphics, weird fonts and hyperlinks from the other media which you may to choose to copy and paste from. Their "outages" are quite frequent.
WordPress is a bit tougher to use (at first), but it gives you a website-quality blog, with all of the bells and whistles you could want. It will even suggest informational in-text hyperlinks, tags, and connect you seamlessly with social media.
It has many "automatic content enhancers" and helpful tools that make a much fancier blog post quite simple to produce, once you've gotten the hang of using the Wordpress platform. WordPress is ideal for copying and pasting material from other media in direct, "true" form -- this includes everything from website excerpts, graphics, emails, MS Word files, spreadsheets and charts. Blogger does not generally let you embed forms and tables as easily as does WordPress, so you invariably find yourself playing McGyver (however he spells it) and creating workarounds. Some folks like this -- I don't, and I believe that those people who do should either be institutionalized or come to work for TNNWC.
Comments and inbound hyperlinks are much more "attracted" to WordPress, and WordPress has built in tools to encourage more vigorous sharing, forwarding and interaction. WordPress does not have as many "technical timeouts" as Blogger, and it is easier to save and edit your drafts.
I use both Blogger and WordPress. I have toyed around a bit with Typepad, but it seems to be running a distant third in this platform popularity contest, and I am content with my back and forth mix of Blogger and WordPress, at least for the present; then again, it may also be possible that my brain is now at full capacity, and that I don't have any place to store any newly-acquired knowledge intracranially at all.
I am writing this article on WordPress at this time, because Blogger is "having some trouble." Alas. I have copied a recently BLOGGER STATUS chronology (a litany of notifications, apologies, and excuses), starting from today (05.13.2011) on backwards in recent history. I used a clever workaround to accomplish this. I also used the color maroon for angry emphasis...
Blogger Status
Friday, May 13, 2011
We are still at work trying to resolve the issue, and to get things back to normal.
Posted by...
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Blogger will be in read-only mode while we resolve some maintenance issues. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Posted by Eddie at 12:35 PDT
Monday, May 09, 2011
Blogger will go into read-only mode Wednesday (5/11) 10:00PM PST for about an hour for maintenance.
Update, 10:40PM: The maintenance is complete. Thanks for your patience.
Posted by Brett at 21:17 PDT
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
We've identified a problem rendering some blogs containing the popular posts widget. Our engineers are fixing the issue and the it should be resolved shortly.
Thanks for your patience in the mean time.
Posted by Andrew at 01:25 PDT
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Postmortem for Blogger Service Interruption on March 16 By Jinwoo Lee, Blogger Software Engineer.
As we committed to you, when serious service interruptions occur we will provide you details about what went wrong and what we’re doing to help prevent similar problems in the future.
From about 9:55 AM PDT until about 10:20 AM on Wednesday, March 16, all Blogger users were unable to access the Blogger dashboard page at www.blogger.com and draft.blogger.com. No data was lost and Blogspot was not affected at all, so your blog’s readers weren’t impacted.
We made brief status updates on our Twitter account — this and this. Meanwhile, we kept a close eye on the reports coming through our help forum and Twitter stream.
The problem was caused by human error. We wanted to show a small announcement on the Blogger dashboard and our code for it had a bug, which caused the problem. Once we figured this out, we quickly reverted the change.
We are truly sorry for any inconveniences this might have caused you. In the meantime, we will try harder to make Blogger a more reliable service.
Labels: post mortem
Posted by Jinwoo at 10:43 PDT
Monday, October 18, 2010
Image Uploads will be disabled for about two hours while we perform routine maintenance on Wednesday, October 20th at 5:00PM PDT.
We'll update this post as soon as the maintenance is complete.
Update, 6:30PM: This is now complete and uploads are back online. Thanks for your patience.
Posted by Brett at 11:21 PDT
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
We're currently working through multiple issues which are affecting the reliability of our comment system. We'll update this post as soon as we have more information to share.
Thanks for your patience in the meantime.
Update: This has been resolved.
Posted by Brett at 12:00 PDT
[Note by Douglas Castle regarding above "Blogger Chronology": Please bear in mind that there are actually numerous mini-outages or short-term catastrophes which occur at least once weekly on Blogger which are not mentioned on the above list. Happily, these are usually mere inconveniences, and will not cause a loss of data or any irreversible damage which will force you to re-post]
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Read this article on WordPress FREE TOOLS FOR WEBMASTERS AND BLOGGERS at: http://freetoolsforwebmastersandbloggers.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/entrepreneurs-webmasters-and-bloggers-which-blogging-platform/, if you are currently reading this on Blogger (i.e., with the suffix ".blogspot.com") and you may discern some subtle differences between the look of the article on one platform, and the look of the same article on another. I'll confess -- the version on Blogger has a clever picture, which does not appear on the WordPress version.
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