Blogger vs. WordPress: SEO and Overall Pros and Cons

Blogger vs. WordPress Full Comparison

Blogger and WordPress are the two most popular way to become a blogger but if you are Confused that which one of them you should choose then just keep reading this article and you will get your answer.

Blogger vs WordPress Free versions

If you are newbie and have no money to purchase hosting and domain then it's obvious that you are looking for a free hosting and free domain to start blogging. Both of these ( blogger and WordPress ) have a free version in which they are providing a subdomain and a free hosting. However, I know that blogger is completely free but you have to buy domain in order to make it your own. So let's compare.

Blogger SEO Pros

• Complete SEO setup for a blogger Website - all in one SEO Guide
• Have permalink, meta tag and Search Description features for SEO
• Free Blogspot Subdomain Name
• Free unlimited Liftime Hosting
• Google's Server protection and 100% Uptime
• Can handle Too much traffic easily
• Easy to understand that ( how to write post, edit and Publish )
• You can Monetize it by Google Adsense ( #1 Advertising Network on the internet )
• You don't have to purchase anything to get approved by AdSense ( Content must be unique )
• So many free Professional Templates
• Easy to costumize
• How to earn money by blogging for beginners

Blogger Cons

• Only Few SEO Tools ( However, I have ranked my another Blogger Gaming Website on the first page of Google )
• Only way to get rank is to write the the content in 1200 words at least. The more longer you write, the more top rankings you get.
• Limited Gadgets and no plugins like WordPress.
• You Can't Monetize your blog by any other Ad networks like Media.net, Taboola and Outbrain.

WordPress.com ( Free ) Pros

• Free WordPress.com Subdomain
• Free Hosting
• Free themes

WordPress.com Cons

• You can't monetize your blog by any ad network
• No SEO tools ( Too hard to rank )
• Can't handle unlimited traffic
• Limited Gadgets

WordPress.org ( Paid ) Pros

• Unlimited Features
• SEO Tools ( Better than Blogger ) easy to rank on Google's First page
• AMP themes ( Faster loading )
• Free domain with Hosting
• Able to monetize with any Ad-networks
• Good choice for full time blogging
• So many Free professional Themes
• Full customisation

Note : on the blogger, You don't have to Worry about any Hacking or cracking with you website but on the WordPress, it's completely depends on you that how you keep your website secure.

WordPress.org Cons

• You have to buy and upgrade hosting According to your pageviews.
• If your website gets more views than your purchased hosting plan then your site will go down and you may have to face lose on your Revenue.
• Your website can be hacked if you install any suspicious plugin.
• For a new user, it's hard to understand and use 
• Complicated setup

Why and When to use Blogger

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• When you have no knowledge about Blogging - blogger is a new user friendly platform and you can easily stay with it for Lifetime because it provides free unlimited hosting service. However, you must have a domain connected with your blog.
• When you have no money to spend - I myself started with a blogger and I am still on the blogger because I also had no money at that time to start with the WordPress.org. I find blogger so helpful for me because my almost 50% posts are ranking well on Google's first Two pages.
• When you want only writing the content - if you want to become a blogger that writes a lot of informative content then you don't need to go on WordPress because if you are writing over 1500 words per page then you can easily rank on Google's First page.
• When you want to be a Full time Blogger - However, I doesn't matter whether you choose blogger or WordPress for a full time blogging but if your situation is matched According to above-mentioned points then you can choose blogger as a full time career and of course it's upon you that when you want to switch to WordPress.

Why and When to use WordPress

• When you have money to spend - if you have enough money to spend on hosting then I want to say that don't save that money and spend it on installing WordPress.org because it's a advance version of blogging that provides you many user friendly plugins.
• When you have a Good experience at blogger.com - when you have a good experience means when you have grown yourself on blogger and making 100$ permonth by Adsense or any other Ad network then it's time to switch your self on WordPress for your better blogging future.
• When you want to build a business website - if you want to become a blogger then you can stay with the blogger.com but if you want a website for you business then never go for blogger.com because it will not provide you the gadgets that you need to customise your site According to your business while WordPress can provide you various features to make your website by your choice.
• When you want to be successful blogger - with the blogger, you can earn maximum 500$ a month after 500 good quality posts with high search volume whereas with the WordPress you can earn more than a Thousand dollars because of it's SEO friendly tools features.
• When you want a fast loading Website - although blogger can also provide you a fast loading Template but WordPress has amp theme for mobile which is the fastest loading Template ever.

Why blogger is the Best

Huge Reasons to use blogger Instead of WordPress

1. 100% Free hosting - unlike WordPress, you don't need to pay even a single dollar in blogger. And yeah that doesn't mean that your post will not rank on Google because I have ranked a Blogger Website on Google's First page. The only condition is that you have to write the the content longer, your page's length should be longer than any article on Google about that specific Topic which you are writing on.
2. Can handle unlimited Traffic - it's the biggest problem for WordPress website owners, specially for those who are new, if you are thinking to buy a WordPress hosting then don't skip and keep reading. If you are using shared hosting then make sure your website's traffic is below 50,000, if it goes upper than this, then it's important for you to upgrade your hosting to VPS hosting. On the other hand, blogger can handle even a million page views easily and the best things is that it never goes down.
3. You can post unlimited articles - unlike WordPress who needs a upper level of plan to post many articles, blogger provide it completely free. WordPress bounds you in a limited data if you have a starter plan but blogger give you 100% discount on everything.
4. Many professional templates - there are many websites who provides thousands of free blogger templates with SEO ready features and ads ready features. Even you can choose the category of the templates e.g. Suppose you want a template for a gaming Website then you can simply find hundreds of gaming category templates on the internet.

Why WordPress is the Best

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1. SEO plugins - unlike blogger who provides only a search Description and meta tags on the name of SEO, WordPress has Many SEO Friendly plugins that will help you to get ranked on Google faster than Blogger. Even if you have wrote only 500 to 1000 words but still you will get ranked on first page of Google. As you all know that SEO is the most main part of blogging. If your website is not ranking on Google then your all hardwork is worthless that's why many Success full blogger have WordPress instead of Blogger. However, I am still using blogger but I will also switch to WordPress soon.
2. Unlimited Gadgets to use - unlike blogger who have limited features to make your blog look professional, WordPress has unlimited means unlimited. You can make your website as you want it to be.
3. Many professional themes - however blogger also has many professional templates but WordPress has a little more beautiful looking themes.

Conclusion

If you want a big success on blogging then you must go for WordPress but if you want to earn only 300$ to 600$ a month by hardworking to live a normal middle class life without getting rich then you can go for blogger. As you may know that getting rich gives you more responsibilities and tensions, isn't it ?. But yeah it's true that WordPress is better than blogger in any case. I am ( onlineintention.com ) now on blogger but I know that one day I will switch to WordPress but I don't know that when the day will come. Because right now I am happy with blogger by seeing my Google rankings and daily organic views.