I've been using it successfully and enjoyably for over 5 years, and like it very much. It has outstandingly good and helpful customer service, and it's intuitively easy to use.

I can't really compare it with Wordpress, because I don't really use Wordpress (I have a little, in the past). My impression is that TypePad is overwhelmingly easier to use (this is among the many reasons why I don't use Wordpress, myself) while having much (not all) of the same flexibility, capabilities and potential as Wordpress. (It's also apparently good enough for some of the world's largest corporations and organizations to use, by the way).

There's more widespread help/assistance/tuition available for Wordpress, clearly, because it's far more widely used.

Obviously one's assessment of these things depends on one's own needs and purposes, but for me, and for my purposes, TypePad is far better and more convenient than Wordpress.

Anyway, my guess is that most of the people singing the praises of and recommending Wordpress in this thread will be those who have never used TypePad. That's what normally happens. They don't need to know much about TypePad to know that Wordpress is better - people who already know the answer don't need to look at the evidence, you know? (And to be fair, for some marketers' purposes, they're right, too).

TypePad is not exactly the cheapest option, mind you - but it's enormously good value for what it is. I pay less, I think, through having such a longstanding annual subscription, which one of my relatives originally took out for me before I was even 18 and had my own credit-card, but what I know as "TypePad Pro" (I think it's called "Unlimited", now?) is now about $15 per month ... something like that, anyway.

There's not much point, really, in trying to compare either with Blogspot, if only because Blogspot is clearly unsafe and extremely unwise for internet marketers to use, for all the reasons explained in 100+ threads like these ...

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I dont use typepad. The platform that I personally prefer is wordpress, as it is the best platform for this purpose out there. Wordpress is a widely used and extremely modifyable platform. You can create virtually any type of website using WordPress. Plus with its thousands of plugins, the sky is the limit. So I recommend you to use WordPress without second thoughts, its the best one without any doubts!!

I dont use it. I like wordpress for it's numerous options to chose to make the outlook of my site best as well as the SEO purpose also. Again blogspot is the best to use for adsense to me.