We have learned “How to create a blog with Blogger Platform” and now I would like to discuss about the pros and cons of the Blogger platform which is a Google service.
Also check Pros and Cons of WordPress.Com Platform, Tumblr Platform.
Blogger has its own advantages and disadvantages when compared to other platforms, in this post we are making out an honest attempt to rate the Blogger (Blogspot) based on the its merits and demerits.
Pros of Blogger Platform
- Most reliable as it is a service offered by Google itself.
- Easy to start with and customize, posting updates is as simple as sending an email.
- Options to use 3rd party or own themes on the platform.
- You can customize the template like your own and you can add your own hacks to start with.
- Ability to use custom domain for free,you just need to map it. (Cons of WordPress.Com)
- Ability to import your old blog feeds.
- Enhanced support for Mobile platforms and native apps for mobile accessing.
- No need to worry about the spam, security and hack everything will be taken care of Google.
- Native language support allows you to post in your own language.
- Posts will index soon on Google Search results.
- Completely Ad Free, it is your choice to show your own ads or not. Blogger will not show its ads on your blog (Cons of WordPress.Com)
- Slickdeal: You can get your own Adsense account soon with Blogspot platform as it runs on Google’s platform, of course you need to satisfy the requirements but the rate of getting approved were really high with blogger.
Cons of Blogger Platform
- Limited storage capacity of 1 GB and no ability to store images (you need to save images in your Picasa account with a threshold limit of 1 GB).
No FTP support - Everything you need should be customized, although community help by the fellow bloggers is available it is always hard to Do It Yourself (DIY).
- No definitive way to host blogger in a local system.
- Frequent outages (quite common to see users facing problems while posting e.g. errors like bx-fj78fy).
- Plugins are not available to enhance the experience, all the time you to code for getting the features like navigation, contact form, related posts etc.
We promise you a detailed comparison posts with other free blogging platforms like Blogger vs WordPress.Com and Blogger vs Tumblr very soon. For more updates on Blogging platforms, tips, tricks and more stay tuned.
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like your tuts . and this is great article. Thanks for the share .
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Thanks for the great article. I’m currently trying to decide whether to start a blog as a new website or subdomain of my existing website. I have one already, but want people to be able to ask questions and comment. If I start it as a subdomain, does that mitigate the last Con re: plugins? Any negatives to doing it as a subdomain? I have another URL I could easily use.