I’ve often been asked the question many times, why I would recommend a wordpress blog over a blogspot blog. I’ll cover this question once and for all on why I would, hands-down, choose a wordpress blog. When I refer to the wordpress blog, I’m referring to a self hosted blog, not the free one that you can get from wordpress since the free hosted blog can’t be used for commercial reasons (you can’t place ads nor make money from that blog)
Although Wordpress is slightly harder to get started for someone with ZERO knowledge (you’d have to learn how to install and configure your blog), the many configurations only makes it more powerful for SEO purposes as well as being more flexible.
There are a lot of plugins available which would allow you to do lots of fancy stuff which would have not been possible with a blogspot blog.
Besides, wordpress have a lot more template choices than Google’s blogger blogs.
However, these are all secondary compared to the next point that I’m going to raise which will be the single most important factor that you’ll need to consider.
If you have a blog at blogspot, who do you think have legal control and ownership of the blog?
You’re right, Google!
Now, if I’m ever going to build my blogging business, you better bet that I’d want to retain total control and ownership of my own blogs, and the only way to do it isby having the blog on your own domain, and using an independent platform like Wordpress.
Some might argue that you can still use Blogger on your own domain, but the fact is, if they ever disable your account, although your domain is still there, and your previous content is still there, you will NOT be able to continue posting to the blog using the same Blogger account. Even if you were to register a new account, yes you can still publish to the same domain, but the continuity of the previous account won’t be there.
If you think that they will not disable your account, think again. Sometimes for a multitude of reasons, they can, and will, disable your account. When that happens, it’ll be pretty hard to get back your account.
That’s why I will ALWAYS use a Wordpress blog hosted on my OWN domain whenever I start any blog. Call me a control freak but I like to have total control and ownership of my business.
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