Blogger Vs. Regular Site

[bigcat1967]

I am thinking about using blogger as my next site - much easier to setup things - and I have a lot of content to put out there.
Couple things do concern me though. I'm used to building websites (I usually use templates and then modify the HTML) where I can modify the alt attribute off the imgage tag, modify the title tags as well as the meta description tag and other things where it becomes very important for on-site optimization. Basically, I'm free to use HTML to the max.
However, with Blogger, I haven't used it that much. I do believe you can alter the title tag, but not quite sure if you can alter anyother HTML at all.

With creating my own site (my host would be godaddy), if I have a lot of content - it does take me a long time. However, with Blogger, it looks very easy to throw the content in and be done with it.

I guess my two questions is this:

1) Can I alter HTML in Blogger just like I can w/ a regular site?
2) Which is better in on-page optimization - Blogger or a website that is hosted by Godaddy or hostGator?

[FamilyFrugal]

I have altered the title tag on my blogger blog. I have altered a lot of my html actually. Mainly with tutorials on other websites so I can't be much help though.

Blogger blogs seem VERY customizable and user friendly to me. The only reason I'd kind of like to move to wordpress is to get all of those fancy fun plug ins for seo and keywords. Otherwise, I'm quite happy with my $10 blogger custom domain

I have no input on your second question sorry! (btw you can see my blog in my siggy if you want to see a blogger custom domain...the frugality blog is MUCH more customized than the mothers day out one)

[Michael Nguyen]

If you have the chance to REALLY control a site then go with your own domain. I think it's bad practice to put your hard work into a platform that you don't control.