What are the pros and cons of using WordPress vs Blogger?

Blogger Vs WordPress

 

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If you are planning to write a blog of your own, there are a lot of platforms on which you can start your own blog. Some of the major platforms are –

1. WordPress
2. Blogger
3. Tumblr
4. Posterous
5. LiveJournal
6. Xanga
7. TypePad

Among all this platforms WordPress and Blogger are the most famous blogging platforms used by the bloggers across the world.

There is always a constant argument that, which platform is best? Blogger or WordPress? People who do casual blogging prefers to blogger while the professional bloggers generally pick WordPress. My personal favorite is WordPress and that’s what I advise you to use.

Let’s discuss the Blogger first –

• Blogger is free. You don’t need to pat anything to publish a blog on blogger.
• Blogger is owned by GOOGLE. So you can easily connect blogger with all other services provided by GOOGLE, like AdSense.
• Since blogger is free and it is owned by Google, you don’t have much control over your own blog. Even you are not able to use your own domain name. You have to use a sub domain with blogspot.com as extension.
• Google can shut down your blog any time.
• Appearance of blogger blogs is very simple and Limited.
• Blogger can’t provide you with additional tools and plugins for modify and adding new features to the blog.
• Moving your blog from blogger to other platform is a very complicated task, and you can also lose all your SEO.
• Since blogger is owned by Google, you don’t need to worry about hacking and all those stuffs.
• The support provided by blogger is limited to forums and there is no direct support from blogger’s team.
• The future of Blogger can’t seen very bright as Google is known for killing its other popular services and has not launched any update since a very long time.
• Blogger don’t provide any access to FTP to upload your files.
• Yes, you can earn money using blogger. By monetizing it with an AdWord account.
• You can’t do much with SEO Optimization.
• User can add media files to the blog post.
• Mobile application of blogger is also available provide you better connectivity and ease of use.

Ok, enough of blogger. Let’s jump to WordPress. WordPress is like a heaven for commercial bloggers. Some of the features of WordPress are as follows –

• WordPress blogs can be hosted on wordpress platform provided by wordpress.com or also can be self hosted.
• If you are hosting a wordpress site by help of a wordpress service provider then you are the owner of that site, not wordpress. You will have all the control over the site.
• WordPress is open source, so user can remodel its blog by adding and removing features and plugins.
• If in future user want to change his hosting provider then user can easily migrate the data without any hassle.
• There are thousands of WordPress themes including the free ones and premium ones. So you can use these themes and can customize your blog however you want.
• Security is responsibility of the user.
• There are a lot of forums and communities where you can get wordpress support.
• Since the control is to the user. User doesn’t need to worry about the fate of the blog.
• You can register your own domain.
• If you are using a self hosted wordpress blog you need to pay the hosting charges.
• User can make money by monetizing the blog with GOOGLE Adsense or other Adsense providers. Also user can do other stuffs like affiliate marketing.
• User can sell his services or even stocks on wordpress site by adding suitable plugins. Cool, isn’t it?
• Just like Blogger, WordPress also have mobile application by which user can maintain the blogs.

 

Conclusion – Blogger is simple, easy and non-frustrating. So, Casual users should go for it.

WordPress provides a lot more flexibility, customization and options for the users. So, professional or serious bloggers should look at wordpress for the future.

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Why you need to have a website for your business

The modern era is the technical era. It is the era where everyone has a mobile in pocket. Half of the world population is using social networking sites like facebook, twitter. Now the time changed when people go to shopping with a wallet full with notes. No, it’s all out of fashion.

Now, people use credit cards, debit cards for shopping. As there is less risk in carrying debit card instead of hard cash. And also the companies provide the clients points or gifts in return. Also the craze of net-banking is increasing. Sometimes latter, people hesitate in using net banking but now net banking is also in famous. Customers now don’t have time to go to a shopkeeper with a list of items in hand and they don’t even have time for it. Now it is the time of e-commerce, where customers like to search all the items he/she wanted on internet. Internet provides them facility to compare the price of various products and compare the pricing at various shops without any headache. Even businessmen can deliver those best offers on internet. At present time small businessmen are facing direct competition from giant malls and shopping center. They provide the customer facilities like home delivery, special offers, technical support, guaranteed products and a very good shopping experience. In order to compete with these giants small businessmen need to pull up their socks and also need to do what clients like. Hey, but wait a small businessmen don’t have much money to invest or don’t have a team of workers to fight with this giants.

This is where the concept of websites get introduced. The best way to enhance your business almost at a no limit level is provided by the websites. Want to know how? Just go through the following points.

1)      Marketing – Marketing is the main weapon used to enhance a business. Companies spent even millions in marketing their products. It is well said quote “What you see is what you get” And it is 100 % true. But a small businessman neither has enough money to invest for marketing nor have any team to look for marketing purpose. But by generating a website you can do marketing of your products without a very high investment. You can also use Blogs and Social Media for marketing as they are almost free.

2)      Brand Image – It is a very similar concept to marketing. Everyone wanted the product they are using to be branded. And the company having a renown Brand name can sale product at any rate. But the most important thing about branding is not this one. The most important reason why people like brands is Trust which is associated with this company brands. A Small businessmen can’t establish a worldwide brand but by the help of his website he can establish his brand in that particular city.

3)      Reach the Unreach – If you are having any business in a particular area of a city, Then you may be famous in that area or may be in the whole city. But still you can’t extend your business to that area where your business is not present. But by the help of websites your business can become omnipresent. And you can increase your sales to a very high level.

4)      Feedback – When a client came to your shop you never ask for a feedback. And if you ask client will definitely provide you a positive feedback. But in case of ecommerce you will also find some negative feedbacks which will help you to ameliorate yourself. And you can analysis your business through them in order to increase your efficiency. You can also showcase the positive feedback of your clients to attract more customers.

5)      Window shopping – Clients love to do window shopping, it’s their habit to compare rates of various products at various shops, and websites help them to do this in a better way. By the help of your website you can provide special offers and schemes directly to your customers and then they will have a reason to purchase products from your shop.

6)      Database – By the help of websites you can save clients important contact information like contact no., email id, address. This will help you to create a database of your clients and by the help of which you can get connected to them.

7)      Contact sharing – Gone are the days when customers search the contacts of a businessmen via telephone directories or visiting cards. Now, they just google it. For ex – If I want to know about the best hospital hall in the city , what I will do ? I will just start the internet on my mobile, google the information and go to the website of my interest from where I will extract all the contact details of that particular hospital.

 

I hope you have now a lot of reasons why it is important to have a website to enhance your business. If you want further more information you can contact us.

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