The first step to blogging is to find a place for you to write and publish your content.
There are many blogging platforms around today such as Typepad, Joomla, Blogger, WordPress and etc but in this post, I am only going to talk about Blogger and WordPress.
Blogging on Blogger
Blogger, previously known as Blogspot was quite a popular platform to use by blogger some time ago. The key benefits of writing on Blogger are:
- Free of charge
- No installation required.
- Easy Google Adsense integration.
Mainly because of being free, people love Blogger. To compare Blogger directly with WordPress hosting on the WordPress site (WordPress.com), the only main difference is the Google Adsense integration where blog hosted on WordPress hosting is NOT allowed to have Adsense code.
However, Blogger is not that awesome anyway. I myself, started blogging on Blogger and find that it difficult to use as I advance further.
Things that I don’t like about Blogger
One thing I don’t like about Blogger is the design. There are not many themes to choose from and even if you have those themes, your personal customization is very little. It is very difficult to build a completely different design from others. Visitors who come into your site can easily tell, “Ah ha! This is a Blogger platform”.
The other which I don’t like is my contents being held by Blogger under their terms. I am not saying Blogger is a bad guy but they have all the authority to shut down my service or to delete my contents without my approval if I violate their terms and condition.
As a result, I decided to migrate away from Blogger to WordPress on my own hosting (not hosted by WordPress).
But, why not host on WordPress.com?
Well, there are several reasons why I did not chose to host on WordPress:
- I can’t use Adsense. When I started blogging for money, my aim is to make money from Adsense. That is why hosting on WordPress is out of my option.
- I don’t get the control of my content. As long as it is not in my web hosting, I don’t have the control over the my contents. WordPress.com can do anything with them and I certainly don’t like that.
So why I blog on a WordPress which I have to pay for the web hosting myself instead of free? Wait for my next chapter.
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