blogger vs wordpress?

I think this is best option to avail that you discussed here because i have also taken a great benefit from this type installed blog.

Yeb, I agree with James.

I agree. Having Wordpress on your own domain is far better than either free Wordpress or free Blogspot. I had a great free Wordpress blog several years back, was getting good traffic, and then without warning, Wordpress deactivated my blog. There's no way to reinstate it either. The problem? They do not allow affiliate links. Blogspot might not have this same restriction, but being shut down is probably just as big a risk.

I've since built all my sites with Wordpress on my own domains and love the flexibility and security of it.

A word of warning.

Once you get your blog up and a month or so of posts, do a backup of your entire blog. This will protect all of your work in the event that your server crashes or something happens to your blog. You do this backup within your CPanel.

Then, you can always reinstall your Wordpress, complete with all of your content. Believe me. This is worth doing. I lost my entire blog with 3 years of content recently. My only option now is to repost everything - a huge task. So make sure you backup both your blog AND the database. Do a backup regularly, every month or so is recommended, depending on how much content you add.

I know this is going a bit off topic to your original question, but certainly well worth knowing. Not sure if you can do such a backup on the free blogs.

Sylvia

This true, once you find teh little secrets with WP you will never turn back.

I have 2 sites bringing in 5 figures a month and they are simple little WP blog membership sites. They are very powerfu.

I agree with you. Just one question, why .org? In your experience a .org does better than a .com?

Not to horn in with a slightly off-topic post (which is exactly what I'm doing), but which plugins do you recommend for SEO purposes. I've read several posts here and elsewhere on this, but I'd like to hear your recommendation.

I'm currently using All in One SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemaps and SEO Slugs.

Thanks,

joe

Mostly Wordpress is the better rank developer than Blog, I must honestly admit that I was really attracted by Wordpress.

You're right except if you own the domain you won't have to worry about Wordpress.com or blogger randomly deciding to change their TOS and remove your site without the slightest whiff of notification.

Rather irritating if you've put any amount of work into it.

Why anyone builds any kind of money site on something they don't own and have no control over makes no business sense at all to me.

If you buy a domain and make sure you get hosting with say Hostgator, so you have CPanel, PM me and I'll do a screen share and show you how to put Wordpress on your domain, it's very easy.

That way it's yours and you have full control over it.

Nonsense Johny.

Wordpress.com don't even allow you to monetise their blogs and Blogger are notorious for randomly closing peoples blogs for no reason.

If you want any kind of long term business you need your own site that you own. Monetising Wordpress on your own domain is allowed and you then own the platform that you will be relying on to make money.