Blogger vs Wordpress Which One is Best?

Blogger.com versus a self-hosted wordpress website the comparison that everybody keeps asking me for because i have tutorials on blogger and tutorials on wordpress and which one is best i can't decide help me out david let's begin what's up everybody it's david from website creativepro.com i hope you're having a great day so in this comparison i'm going to take a look at blogger.com versus a self-hosted wordpress website.

we're going to be comparing these two platforms across three dimensions we're going to be taking a look at seo monetization strategies and design layout and ease of use so let's get started so let's begin by comparing the seo between blogger.com in a self-hosted wordpress website now.

i'm just going to come right out and say that wordpress is better like a wordpress website just ranks better than a blogger blog like a great example is a blog post.

 i wrote on edgeofdavid.com back when it was a wordpress powered website called how to quit playing video games and that piece of content was ranking for the search term quit playing video games and it was just chilling at the bottom of page one but ever since.

 i moved everything over to blogger it's been about six months that piece of content with the same exact content on a blogger blog is still on like page four and five it's just not performing as well now for a technical comparison between the two obviously wordpress is just better because you have a lot more control over the on-page seo of your website than you do with a blogger blog thanks in part to plugins like rank math and yoast seo with wordpress you can have a custom permalink structure.

you can have it be something like slash block slash post title whatever with blogger you're stuck using dates next wordpress uses categories and categories are actually really helpful because it just creates a page that's very helpful that contains all the information about a specific topic on your website.

that a user can use to find specific content where blogger uses labels and labels are okay but they're just not as good as categories last is breadcrumbs so like a one-man show here on the internet talking about breadcrumbs anybody who's followed any of my wordpress tutorials knows that like i am a big believer in adding breadcrumbs to your website like add breadcrumbs to your website.

it provides good internal linking it's very useful for the end visitor and google really likes websites with breadcrumbs and now with wordpress adding breadcrumbs to your website is very easy just copy and paste some short code in and you're good to go with blogger it's not the same it's way more technical.

you have to understand how to edit the html and i haven't been i haven't bothered to do it for my own personal blog just because it's too technical and i don't feel like jumping into the html and css and trying to figure out how to like add breadcrumbs effectively and so that's why i really like wordpress because it's just easier without regard next up is monetization between a blogger blog and a self-hosted wordpress website.

so again i'm just going to come right out and say it that wordpress is better like wordpress is way better because you have more functionality and flexibility due in part to the plugins that you can add to a wordpress powered website so for example you have access to a plugin called pretty links and what pretty links does is it takes an ugly affiliate link and then makes it into something a lot more beautiful and appealing.

that people would actually feel comfortable with clicking on so you can take some long weird looking affiliate link then you can change it into like websitecreatepro.com product and people kind of trust when they see that a type of link like that a little bit more than they do with some like weird.

affiliate link and with blogger you just have no way to cloak affiliate links you have to either use bitly you just have to use the plain old affiliate link itself and i can tell you that people don't really trust bitly links that much and people definitely don't want to click on any obvious looking affiliate link because they don't they don't know like where i'm going to end up if i click this weird-looking link on your website.

next are product boxes that you can add to your website with wordpress so with wordpress and particularly like website createpro.com i personally use and love this plugin called stackable because i'm able to create these really big gorgeous looking product boxes that i use to promote various products and services as an affiliate the product boxes look great and they help increase conversions.

where on a blog or blog you just don't have access to anything like that in addition you have amazon associates so with amazon associates and wordpress there's tons of plugins that allow you to add like in product tables and specific product boxes to help increase conversions of your sales with amazon associates.

whereas with a blogger blog you're kind of stuck either using the basic product image or just the basic amazon short link when promoting a product via amazon associates advertising is way more flexible with a wordpress powered website so again like you have access to different plugins so like with a wordpress powered website.

you can use a plug-in like ad inserter and you can manually say like okay i want an ad to display here here and here on my website when people are visiting whereas with a blogger blog you don't have access to that so with blogger your access is to either use the default layout within blogger which adds a adsense add to your footer in the sidebar or you have to enable google auto ads with blogger now with wordpress you don't have to use adsense you can use whatever ad network you want with blogger.

 you can so that's a big difference as well and so if you want to go like apply to add thrive with your wordpress powered website if you get enough traffic you can do that but if it's a blogger blog you can't do that you have to be stuck using adsense if that makes any sense so that's a big difference between the two so overall wordpress is way better for monetization strategies when compared to blogger and you can also sell your wordpress website so i think people kind of forget that but when compared to a blogger blog you can actually like build your wordpress website into a sellable asset.

you can list it on a website like flippa or empire flippers and turn it around for a profit once you have a decent amount of traffic installed in a way that you just can't with a blogger blog design layouts and ease of use so i'm just going to say that this is a tie between wordpress and blogger now yeah anybody can go to blogger.com and sign in with a gmail account and then boom you have yourwebsite.blogger.com.

 it really is that easy uh whereas wordpress has a few more steps where you have to get a domain name a shared hosting account install wordpress and design your website with a wordpress theme but with like a blogger blog like you're not going to want your website to be website.blogger.com you're going to want to have a custom domain name and so then you got to kind of figure out how to do that which is why i create tutorial videos here to help you out and so that's why i say like bloggers seemingly easy to use but to get it to like where you want to be is going to require a little bit of some technical skills to that you're going to need to develop now in terms of design of the website.

wordpress uses themes and there's thousands of themes and all themes today kind of provide some type of like drag and drop functionality to work well with the gutenberg block editor yeah it has a learning curve but if you're willing to put in the time with wordpress you're going to find out that you can create any type of website that you want pretty easily with any type of wordpress theme and by contrast blogger works by way of templates and with your blogger account.

 you only have access to a few basic good-looking templates then you have access to a lot of like really old data templates that you're not going to even want to bother with and so yeah there's websites where you can go and download a blogger template and install it but again that's a little bit technical for most people so that's why i said like bloggers kind of seemingly easy to use but to get to where you want to be is going to require.

you to develop a little bit more technical skills and last with regards to creating content both are the same like they're both kind of functionally the same they're kind of like just a text editor where you can create title tags subheaders paragraphs not really that confusing and create inner links between content you know automatically add in videos and images with ease at the click of a button i think it's fairly intuitive for most people so with regards to actually creating and publishing content wordpress and blogger are functionally kind of the same.

they're not wildly different so i wouldn't say like one is better than the other if you made it this far into the video smash that like button because it really helps with the youtube algorithm which one is best well i just gave blogger a big time thrashing so i'm sure you already know the answer to this look if you want to build an income generating website a potentially sellable asset then go with wordpress don't even waste your time with blogger now that's not to say again blogger is bad.

it's not i personally use blogger for my personal blog because i get free web hosting i just have to pay for the custom domain name and i'm able to run google adsense on it and make a little bit of passive income you go with blogger if you just want a personal website if you're okay with it just being the small little fun side thing that you do that's why you go with blogger otherwise go with wordpress if your goal is to build an income generating web property okay.

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