[DnkH]

If you are going to make a blog of your own, which platform would you choose? I think I will go with blogger. It has a lower cost than wordpress.

[Decentlady]

Both these are free platforms unless you are talking about the upgraded versions. I have mine on Blogger but many prefer WordPress because of additional features.

[oldbuddy]

If I couldn't afford the less than $2 a month for my own domain and hosting I would wait until I could. I make more than that clicking half cent ads on Clixsense every day,

[darrensurrey]

I think Blogger has benefits from being connected (owned?) with Google.

Otherwise, if you are talking about setting up a proper stand-alone blog/website, install WordPress on your server.

[IcyFirefly]

I found Blogger much more friendly to use, and I have been with them since 2008. I am able to edit HTML in my Blogger blogs, but not in my Wordpress blog. I bought 2 domain names for my blogs through Blogger, at $10 a year for each blog, and I am pleased with it. Wordpress for me is a learning curve!

[Mark2016]

I have an account with both Blogger and Word Press. Both of these publishing platforms are amazing. Since I opened an account with Blogger first, I will go with Blogger. In the search engines, both of these publishing platforms do well. During my early days of publishing, I stumbled unto Blogger and Word Press. It is easier to edit HTML in Blogger than Word Press.

[haripriyavkl]

I have a blog in blogger and I find it pretty easy to use. I would prefer blogger for creating a blog.

[Angie10]

Ok, this is a very interesting thread to me! I'm very new to blogging and wouldn't know which is best because I've only ever used wordpress. It was a bit fiddly to get my head around, but can now use it confidently, although I could never say I was an expert. I really like the good things I'm hearing about blogger, though

[kaka135]

If I have my own web hosting, I will go for Wordpress as it allows more functionalities. Without web hosting, I would go for Blogger, as it allows more customization as compared to Wordpress.com.

[naruto100]

If I have my own web hosting, I will go for Wordpress as it allows more functionalities. Without web hosting, I would go for Blogger, as it allows more customization as compared to Wordpress.com.

I don't know more about wordpress, but do you mean we need our own hosting for using wordpress. I mean without it we can do blogging like we do in bloggers.

[skysnap]

I prefer WordPress. The reason being I know how to use it and configure. I also know how to manage the themes and create them. Only thing I don't know is the plugins system. That is a bit complicated part. In case of blogger, you don't have much control like wordpress. So I think depending on your needs you have to choose accordingly.

[oldbuddy]

I found Blogger much more friendly to use, and I have been with them since 2008. I am able to edit HTML in my Blogger blogs, but not in my Wordpress blog. I bought 2 domain names for my blogs through Blogger, at $10 a year for each blog, and I am pleased with it. Wordpress for me is a learning curve!

Using HTML on WordPress is as simple as switching to Text Mode and typing or pasting it in.

[kaka135]

I don't know more about wordpress, but do you mean we need our own hosting for using wordpress. I mean without it we can do blogging like we do in bloggers.

There are two versions, one is wordpress.com & another is wordpress.org.
We can create a blog from wordpress.com just like how we do in Blogger, you will get your blog URL like blogname.wordpress.com. This wordpress version does not allow much customization. If I am not mistaken, we can't put ads too.

As for wordpress.org, it allows us to download the CMS for free and add it to our hosting. There we can customize however we like according to the functionalities wordpress provides. There are also a lot of plugins. These are all for wordpress CMS, not the one we just register from wordpress.com.

[skysnap]

WordPress.com does allow paid ads program. But for that to work, your blog needs to qualify for their requirements. So it seems they need a lot of traffic and people from specific countries as traffic. Also the wordads get embeded into the post. So that is something about wordad program. There are not much details out as of now.

[simonex]

I have blogs on Blogger as well on WordPress, but sincerely I prefer to write on WordPress, and I find the paid ads programs in WordPress are working better than on Blogger.

[kaka135]

WordPress.com does allow paid ads program. But for that to work, your blog needs to qualify for their requirements. So it seems they need a lot of traffic and people from specific countries as traffic. Also the wordads get embeded into the post. So that is something about wordad program. There are not much details out as of now.

Thanks for telling me this. I think I tried to add ads into my wordpress.com blog a few years ago, I couldn't do that. I am not so sure about wordad program, will need to find out more about it.

[tpicks]

WordPress.com does allow paid ads program. But for that to work, your blog needs to qualify for their requirements. So it seems they need a lot of traffic and people from specific countries as traffic. Also the wordads get embeded into the post. So that is something about wordad program. There are not much details out as of now.

Very vital piece of information. Thanks for making me know this. I have been on blogger all this while.

[skysnap]

Thanks for telling me this. I think I tried to add ads into my wordpress.com blog a few years ago, I couldn't do that. I am not so sure about wordad program, will need to find out more about it.

If you have your own hosting then getting the ads on the WordPress blog is easy. But if you are on wordpress.com account then they only allow Wordad program. Other ads are not allowed. In that case blogger is much better and tolerant towards ads of different type. I suggest getting a domain and hosting if you are serious about setting up a site.

[Lexi]

I prefer wordpress as I like the themes there and adding widgets and ads is so much faster than blogger. I've tried blogger several times and each time I get more frustrated when it takes so long to do anything.

As far as I know you can only buy domains through blogger in the US as that would have been an incentive for me to buy a domain and get free hosting. Perhaps it has changed since I last looked over a year ago?

The better blogger themes you have to pay for or pay to remove certain text, and while it's not much if I abandon a site then it will have been wasted. I also prefer wordpress as it is easier to export and import sites over.

[naruto100]

I don't know more about wordpress, but do you mean we need our own hosting for using wordpress. I mean without it we can do blogging like we do in bloggers.

There are two versions, one is wordpress.com & another is wordpress.org.
We can create a blog from wordpress.com just like how we do in Blogger, you will get your blog URL like blogname.wordpress.com. This wordpress version does not allow much customization. If I am not mistaken, we can't put ads too.

As for wordpress.org, it allows us to download the CMS for free and add it to our hosting. There we can customize however we like according to the functionalities wordpress provides. There are also a lot of plugins. These are all for wordpress CMS, not the one we just register from wordpress.com.

So they are having two versions of this. I haven't heard about another version, but I will checkout for more information. Thanks for clearing doubt.