Why do people hate blogger?

If you want to get serious about blogging then you need a self-hosted blog powered by wordpress. You get more control and can do much more, especially with all the plugins out there for WP. There really is no comparison.

Its not that "hate" blogger - I want control over my content. I want to be able to upload my own files, and have control over those files.

I want to be able to post something, with have to worry about meeting someone elses quality control guidelines.

I want to have my own blog, where I make my own rules.

I think this is probably the reason for most. ... Sploggers hate Blogger.

Be wary of people complaining about being caught breaking the rules. These are not people you want to take advice from.

A lot of the people who recommend Wordpress over Blogger are talking about using Wordpress hosted on your own domain, not the free Wordpress.com sites.

Hosting it yourself gives you far more control, you can use any plugins you want, etc. And there's no chance of getting banned.

If you compare Blogger to Wordpress.com there's not so much of an advantage since in both cases another entity can ultimately control your site (ie. ban it).

John

You answered your own question in the P.S.

If you just want a medium for posting random thoughts
or rants by all means use Blogger. If you want to build an
actual business use something you control.

Tsnyder

It's not that Blogger is bad but for under 40 cents a day, it's worth the peace of mind to have your blog on your own host and not worry about having your content end up being deleted....It's all about control!

Within the past year or so Google, who owns Blogger, has cracked down on Blogger blogs for reasons beyond just obvious spamming or stated TOS reasons. This has included a number of well ranking and well regarded blogs and not just the infamous 'make money online' one. Often the reason given was quite unclear (ie typical Google). While most of these have been restored it is an annoyance and potentially costly to those who were affected by it. Basically, in an effort to combat spam and copyright violations, they made Blogger a much more unfriendly place for anyone to host a blog, even if they follow the rules.

Secondly, they have shown a recent tendency not to rank as well as non-Blogger properties, even those on subdomains. I don't know why this is and I haven't thoroughly researched it yet but they do seem to have discounted them in some way, probably yet another overreaction.

Lastly, self-hosted content management solutions, such as WordPress, now offer a richer set of features where Blogger has remained more or less stagnant since around 2005.

Basically, Google is for kids and Wordpress is for grown-ups.

Or should I say BLOGGER (owned by Google)

I am not a huge blogger fan mainly because once I found wordpress, i really didn't see a whole lot of reason to use much else, especially if I am doing an actual blogging platform. You get excellent content control and layout control plus the fact that you can build blogs, squeeze pages, landers etc all fairly easily in Wordpress does it for me. Its not so much that I hate blogger, its that when you compare the offerings of the 2, especially for an online marketer, well there just isn't much comparison.

It's quotes like this that make Google staff weep with tears of joy.

I love how people justify using Blogger and other free platforms for the sole reason that they are "free". If you're too cheap to spend $10 on a domain name that lasts for an entire year and $10 per month on hosting, then this is not for you.

How many times do you go out for lunch and spend $10 or go to the movies or out to the bar with friends? You probably waste $10 way more than you think but yet spending money to invest into your business is not something that people want to do.

Blogger and all the other free platforms are good for throwing quick articles on and linking back to your own self-hosted money site, but they are not good for using as your money site for reasons that others have already mentioned - primarily, getting it banned and shut down.

Not to mention, having YourSite.Blogger.com looks more unprofessional and you can't sell it down the road even if you wanted to since you don't own it.

they do not rank as high as wordpress blogs. the only thing that is good is that you can have followers vs at wordpress can't not without signing them up to your blog

I hate them because I wrote a 100% unique blog about raising bearded dragons that linked back to my own domain. Woke up one morning to it gone - no chance to download my files or anything. What a crock! And I'm anything BUT a spammer.