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• David

  January 18th, 2006 2:45 am

  In my opinion that is very interesting as most blogs I see are on Blogger, Textpattern or Live Journal. Interesting to see how many use what. I think there is lots of growth left in the major ones, and I also think that had you done this same poll before Movable Type’s pricing model (and thus back when WP was a 1.2 release), things would be a little different.

• Aaron

  January 18th, 2006 2:52 am

  Anil Dash should pop his head in here telling you that the results are unscientific and skewed. :-)

• Ray

  January 18th, 2006 2:59 am

  I have had a lot of problems with blogs I have started on Blogger. It could be that I am more comfortable with Wordpress because a lot of people swear by it.

• Cicely

  January 18th, 2006 3:07 am

  Worth noting is that Expression Engine now has a free version.

• Axel

  January 18th, 2006 3:18 am

  Am I the only one to use Dotclear ?
  A very good french platform, but only in french actually… :(

• thatedeguy

  January 18th, 2006 3:36 am

  It would be interesting to see how much the wordpress.com faction would grow if wordpress.com hadn’t only been around for a few months. Especially as opposed to blogger.com. I find it fairly interesting that most of the respondents used wordpress.org as it requires hosting. Of course I also think that that is the reason that blogger.com is as high as it was. free is a keyword there…

• Carl

  January 18th, 2006 3:56 am

  I’ve only ever tried out Wordpress so far and all I can say is that I haven’t felt the need to try out something else as it just worked for me!

  I’d love to try out something else but I don’t know how to get them working on my computer to save me having to upload a blogging platform to the web just to test it out a bit!

  It’s interesting to see people custom code their blog platforms, I would love to see some of the blogs that have a custom coded platform to see if it’s noticable.

• King Bastard

  January 18th, 2006 4:03 am

  Roll your own — it’s more fun.

  Actually, I rolled my own because there was a lot of tracking I wanted to put in place to watch visitors that you really can’t do with the other blog software. There aer few features that I wish I had, but for the most part, it works pretty well.

• Trader Mike

  January 18th, 2006 4:15 am

  I find it very interesting that MSN Spaces, Yahoo 360 and AOL Journals didn’t even register. I somehow missed the poll — I use Movable Type

• Gary Miller

  January 18th, 2006 4:15 am

  It would be interesting to know how many Blogger users don’t use blogspot.com for their hosting, but instead upload to their own web server.

• Simone

  January 18th, 2006 4:25 am

  I think that may people use PHP sw because they come preinstalled on common hosting services, and are very community oriented.
  The .NET platforms are much more “enterprise oriented”, very few features, but well tested and developed
  But hopefull SubText will change the market

• Aviad Ben Dov

  January 18th, 2006 4:27 am

  Kind of unrelated, but is that the new iWork you’re using ? How is it?

• vivek

  January 18th, 2006 4:37 am

  I have total 5 blogs:
  3 run using blogger.com and hosted on my own hosting
  2 run using wordpress.org

  When I need something simple, I got for blogger.com and when I need some advance stuff, I go for wordpress.org

  I am using blogger.com since early 2004 and it rocks :)

• Glen

  January 18th, 2006 5:08 am

  I have two blogs currently on blogger but Im growing more and more tired of the login problems and having my blog treated as a splog by blogger. Im learning wordpress now and will be moving off blogger real soon.

• Cary

  January 18th, 2006 5:27 am

  Glen…good move! I switched from Blogger to WordPress about five months ago and the difference is like night & day.

  If you’re going to put a huge amount of time into a blog – let alone try to make money from it – it just seems dangerous to leave that much control in the hands of someone else.

  Would you build a business that relied on a third party for its very existence?

  WordPress just plain works :) Good luck!

• tom sherman

  January 18th, 2006 5:36 am

  With the limitations and reliablity problems of Bloggers, it’s a real shame it’s so popular, isn’t it?

• tom sherman

  January 18th, 2006 5:36 am

  er, Bloggers=Blogger

• Jon Heizer

  January 18th, 2006 6:42 am

  I used Blogger for the last few months on 2 blogs but I was hosting them on my own server. This last week I moved them and started another on WordPress 2.0 and it is amazing how much better it is. Now I just have to learn how to create my own templates again…

• Aviad Ben Dov

  January 18th, 2006 6:46 am

  I agree with Jon. Moving from Blogger to Wordpress was a wonderful discovery after another.

  That said, changing the template turned out to be a spagetti of php. Or at least it seems so at first glance – The WP guys did a good job with keeping the code maintainable, at least.

  Jon: Take a look at K2, it looks promising as something to easily change your template from. I am still struggling with getting graphics, though :-/

• Michael Hampton

  January 18th, 2006 7:00 am

  Oh no, not K2.

  WordPress themes are simple enough to create, and you can certainly do just about anything you could ever imagine with the platform, but there’s you some needless complexity. Not to mention you run the risk of it terribly breaking if you look at it funny.

  (OK, I don’t like K2, and I didn’t like Kubrick before it.)

• Aviad Ben Dov

  January 18th, 2006 7:19 am

  Okay, as I don’t really know much about WP and its themes, I would better listen than speak – What do you suggest then, Michael? Where can I learn?

  I am eager to replace my standard, mundane theme. It’s horribly… Plain.

• Darren Rowse

  January 18th, 2006 7:39 am

  Aviad – yes it’s iWork 06. Only got it yesterday so I can’t say too much yet but it’s got some good new features but from what I can see they are not massive changes (so far) and I’m wondering if it was enough to justify a full upgrade of versions. Oh well.

• Aviad Ben Dov

  January 18th, 2006 7:53 am

  Darren: That’s what I’m wondering as well. What interests me most is the right to left support, though. Seems like Apple forgot about the right to left writers of the world when they released iWork ‘05, and I was hoping to see a change in ‘06..

  You woulnd’t know anything about it by chance, would you? :)

• Darren Rowse

  January 18th, 2006 7:55 am

  I havn’t seen anything in the instructions about this Aviad – must be frustrating!

• Aviad Ben Dov

  January 18th, 2006 8:22 am

  Darren: It is. At the university I developed a sense to hearing Hebrew and writing translated English.

  I could be a translator by doing a completely different degree. :)

• Dignan

  January 18th, 2006 8:43 am

  I understand why people crack on Blogger. But not only is it free, but you can customize it much more than people realize. Granted, you have to have some technical ability to do so or know someone who can help you. But most people would never know that I am on Blogger except for the Blogspot address; I have categories and my template looks nothing like a Blogger template. And did I mention that it is FREE.

• brent

  January 18th, 2006 9:04 am

  I have been using blogger.com for a couple years. In the last 6 months I may have logged in 2 times. I only post to my blogs with microsoft word – that eliminates all the problems with blogger. To change the template I use w.blogger. If I had to go back to logging in to post I wouldn’t be able to use blogger.com any more.

• Julieanne

  January 18th, 2006 9:21 am

  Darren, what happened to some of the votes? Last time I looked, Powerful Intentions Community vote was up to 28, and more people voted after that.

  I had posted on one of our forums about your voting and people from our community were coming over here to vote. This is the thread here, with everyone saying they voted, and what the count was up to.

  http://julieanne.powerfulintentions.com/forum/topic/7220

  We were happy to be one of the top ten platforms out there. We’re a relatively new community.

  This is what one of the founders of our community had posted on January 15 (American time)..

  ” WOW, PI is up to 27 votes after I voted!

  YES! We’re number 5 of 48 Blogging services.
  and only two behind Typepad.

  Go PI!”

  Regards from
  Julieanne

• Darren Rowse

  January 18th, 2006 9:38 am

  Julieanne – that’s very odd.

  Now you mention it I do remember PIntentions polling well but for some reason it didn’t end up with the votes. I’ll dig through the results again tonight – perhaps I accidentally hit ‘3′ instead of ‘30′ when i was typing the results into keynote…

  I’m out for the day today but will look into it tonight.

• Julieanne

  January 18th, 2006 10:52 am

  Thanks Darren. The “3″ looks like the percentage maybe? We were all excited about being in the top 5 at one stage. We’re updating our platform soon, and the blogging section is one we looked at closely. It’s going to be great!

• Martin

  January 18th, 2006 11:02 am

  Gotta say I’m surprised that Blogger ranked so highly – I used it for about 2 months before I jumped ship and onto WP and have never looked back since.

  Also, love the graph image, Darren – very spiffy (shame I’m not a Mac person)

• Michael Martine

  January 18th, 2006 1:04 pm

  I started with Blogger years ago, and have abandoned more blogs than I now run (3 soon to be 4). My personal blog is a WordPress blog (self-hosted) and I like it quite a bit, but Blogger’s simplicity and other aspects keep me coming back to it. IT’S DEAD EASY. Futzing with WP is often time-consuming and frustrating. Some of the best blogs use Blogger (bldg-blog and bubblegeneration).

  I make money from my Blogger blogs and that’s where all the traffic is. You can use Blogger-hosted images in your template code with no problem. If you’re good with CSS, you’re all set. You can create excellent original Blogger template designs.

  Blogger got me into Gmail and AdSense. And I trust Google’s servers way more than I trust the company hosting my WordPress blog. I think much of the splog problem stems more from the fact that Blogger is just the biggest free blog host platform with the most users and traffic. Nobody else even comes close in terms of numbers, so of course that’s where all the splogs are, too (Making AdSense easy to sign up for from Blogger helped with that, too).

  I myself am a little surprised to be doing this in Blogger, but it works and it’s easy. And… you never know what they’re going to do with it next!

• wilson ng

  January 18th, 2006 1:50 pm

  I originally used Radio. It was a leading blog provider and a pioneer, before, and it is a pity that they have not been able to maintain it.

  I tried also Blogger and WordPress, and I must admit that WordPress is way more flexible for what I want to do.

• Sugree Phatanapherom

  January 18th, 2006 6:25 pm

  I wonder what is the most advantage of WordPress comparing to Drupal.

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• Julieanne van Zyl

  January 19th, 2006 11:22 pm

  Hi Darren, were you able to find out what happened with the results for Powerful Intentions Community?

  I was wanting to post the results on our forum. to show people that Powerful Intentions was in the top 10. It was according to the results initially.

  Regards from Julieanne

• ProNucleus

  January 20th, 2006 10:57 pm

  Go, Nucleus, go! :-P

• VoIP

  January 22nd, 2006 12:31 am

  I am a bit surprised about the fact that quite some pro-bloggers use Wordpress.com because that service does not allow you to edit the template, or to put any scripting code in the posts. This means that it is impossible to use any form of advertising except ‘normal links’ in the posts. This doesn’t seem very appealing to me.

  Because I am using Blogger.com for my blogs I am absolutely not surprised about the large number of users there. Blogger.com allows you to completely modify the template, and is compared to other blogging tools not lacking any important features (well, maybe the feature to notify commenters of future comments).

  The beauty of the Blogger.com administration interface is its simplicity. It makes you focus on the posts and not fiddle around with plugins and other technical stuff all the time. It is also very easy to manage several blogs under one account, this is a feature that most other blogging tools are missing.

  Of course the fact that it is completely free helps too. It is a matter of just setting up a blog, inserting the adsense code, and start making money :)
  For me the fact that Blogger.com is owned by Google is a pro because I think this helps in the Google ranking of my Blogger.com blogs and also guarantees that they won’t all of a sudden start charging for their service (they have money enough…).

• Gary Miller

  January 22nd, 2006 3:26 am

  VoIP –

  The ability of manipulate the Blogger templates is, in my opinion, it’s biggest plus. I have tweaked one of their templates to work with Chitika which puts an ad in each post that is key to the post topic. Unfortunately, the future of Chitika is questionable (if you believe all the “reports”).

  BTW, I would be interested is corresponding with any Blogger users re. networking.

  - Gary

• Eric Scalf

  January 25th, 2006 7:39 pm

  My blog started out on a self-coded PHP-based platform that I eventually abandoned in favour of wordpress (I didn’t want to spend all the time writing in the features I wanted, so I ditched the project). I now use WordPress 1.5 for the blog, and keep a much more personal journal at LiveJournal. I used MT in the past, but found it to be rather limited, compared to WP. I’ve also used Blogger, but various issued with templates and logins made my shy away.

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With the tools available you could set up your new blog and be operational within 10 minutes of reading this post.  It wouldn’t need to cost you a penny, and there won’t be any adverts on your site – unless you want to sell something!  Even if you decide to go for one of the premium service options, we are talking a few pounds, euros, dollars a month.  The technology is easy to set up, the online editors for your content work well, and it’s reasonably straightforward to syndicate your content to the world with RSS.  For the small or medium business, this is a low cost, low risk exercise to add the concept to your marketing mix, and to start having an online conversation with your market and customers.  There are perfectly acceptable free services available like Blogger (owned by Google) or WordPress.com.  These are a good place to start.  Blogger gives you all of the basic features you’ll need, gives you a fair choice of template styles and allows you access to the template code itself.  This means that with a little care and very modest knowledge of HTML you can customise your site’s look and feel, to add links, add feeds, add skype buttons, add almost anything.  Most of the useful utilities you can subscribe to provide you with the HTML to copy, and guidance on where to paste it in the template.  WordPress.com gives you a good range of styles and templates, and is nicely configurable, but does not allow access to the template.  So you are restricted in terms of look and feel and placing extra features and plug-ins, but it does have the concept of pages, as well as posts.  You can set up as many pages in a hierarchy as you need, just like a Content Management System.  This makes it easy for you to describe your business in as much detail as you need, alongside your regular blog posts.  Either of these will work well.   The next level up is a product like TypePad, from Six Apart.  Their pricing is from $5 to $15 a month, depending on how many blogs and authors you want to be involved, or to get extra features like photo albums.  This offers a good range of features, templates and configuration, as well as access to the templates to add in those extra goodies. The next option is to download blogging software yourself, so that you can take control of the templates and style and get the look and feel you really want.  You could choose a commercial option like Moveable Type (MT), which is actually the software used by the TypePad service, or an open source (free) offering like WordPress.org (WP), which is the software used by WordPress.com.   MT’s pricing starts at $70 for a basic personal option, right up to $1,300 for a commercial licence for 50 users.  WordPress just costs you the time and effort to download and install it.  In both cases you’ll need to budget for hosting the software.  However, there are options for either WP or MT with Yahoo! 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These products make it very easy for any business to get a web presence.  I’ve noticed a number of companies recently setting up a blog site, and not bothering with a traditional website, for example GlobalBrain.  Last night on the drive home I thought about my own accountant, who has an embarrassing holding page for her website, awaiting her technically minded husband to find time to finish the job.  While I was thinking about this article it occurred to me that she could set up a WordPress.com account, start a blog, but use the tabs and pages to get some web presence explaining what she does.  She had set something up within 30 minutes of my call.  I won’t point you to it until she’s got some sensible content written, but it shows the power and ease of this medium. 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• Paul

  June 27th, 2006 12:19 pm

  As I am not too good with scripting with css or php for wordpress, I am currently looking for someone to code a template I’ve created with photoshop to be compliant with wordpress. I am not too good with wordpress template tags and such forth and so I would rather have one of you help me with it. If anyone of you could provide me with some insight to how I could get this done I would appreciate it.

  P.S I do know how to use html but never got into css for some reason

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• Shad0w

  December 5th, 2006 11:05 am

  Seems Blogger is one of the most used. I merely stumbled into using Blogger. Hope it was a good choice for my blog .

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• Rick Lecoat

  August 14th, 2007 7:34 pm

  Although it crept into the ratings, nobody here seems to be talking about Expression Engine — probably because it costs hard cash up front whilst WP is free. But I’m about to do a full tear-down job on my site and rebuild it from the ground up (hello web standards, bye bye table layouts), with a blog section included, and EE is one of the blogging tools that I’ve been considering.

  Having no previous experience of setting up blogs, I bought the book ‘Blog Design Solutions’ by Andy Budd et al., and Expression Engine was one of the four packages that they looked at in detail (Movable Type, Wordpress and TextPattern being the others). From what I read, EE looks like a compelling choice, even if it does cost (my site is a business site, so I can justify the expense if it’s the right tool).

  Anyone here have any EE experience?

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• Sheraz Alvi

  February 16th, 2008 3:17 am

  I was planning to use Drupal for my blog at corporateskills.co.uk and looking at this survey Wordpress seems more appropriate but I am still confused as I have spent so much time understanding Drupal and now this blog pushed me to change my mind.

  Any comments about Drupal people who have been using it do you need Wordpress instead of Drupal for a good blog website?

  Thanks love ProBlogger Thumbs up man!!!!!

• VirtualDude

  March 8th, 2008 8:01 am

  I just started blogging and decided to go with Blogger. The one feature that stood out for me was mobile blogging where I could email my blog from my mobile device and it gets posted automatically, including any pictures I take with my phone as well. I didn’t happen to notice any other blogging sites with that capability. I believe Wordpress is working on it though.

• Sheraz Alvi

  March 8th, 2008 7:27 pm

  Wow that is amazing I think there must be a plugin for word press to do the same. The only thing that attracts me to wordpress is that you can have it running on your own domain and the list of plugins and skins avaialble makes it highly customisable. I also ended up developing a normal website using wordpress cms capability and it is not a blog and functions very well.

  But having said that i think as I have the websites up and ready the most important thing about the blog: http://www.corporateskills.co.uk is that you need to have the ability to post remotly otherwise you just cant find time with a regular job to site and write for the website. The only way is during my 1 hour journey to and from work everyday and indeed Blogger offers much more in that area.

  Shall keep you posted for any findings for Wordpress.

  Readers if you already know something please share!

  Cheers all from London :)

• amituofo

  March 19th, 2008 2:09 pm

  Wow, I didn’t know there are so many available blogging application to choose from.

  Thanks for the info. Me? I’m WP-user. and I host it on my own domain with this and that plugins installed.

  I amuses me is that when I use the free version, my new site get indexed on Google so much faster than the one on my own hosting. And is it true that with Blogger you can get higher SERP than WP?

  I doubt Google practices discrimination….does it?

• Sheraz Alvi

  March 19th, 2008 2:49 pm

  Well here is another try for WP looks wonderful and amazing
  http://www.maryamalvi.com. But after development and blogging for few days the site lacks traffic and I had to come back again to Pro blogger to learn about getting the blog functional and search able. It seems like a long journey for a site which is known by a bunch of visitors. :( Any ideas for any time frames for a blog to actually start making money from adsense????

• Jerry Ong

  April 21st, 2008 11:04 pm

  I’m using Movable Type 4.1, since day one day! nice poll topic anyway !

• Matti

  May 1st, 2008 7:54 pm

  Blogger is the most unbelievably unreliable web tool I have ever used. That it should come second in your poll disturbs me greatly. I tried blogging with Blogger years ago when people were already talking about how bad it is. I backed up and deleted the entire body of published messages when I realised that Blogger messes up my formatting settings and deletes posts instead of publishing them.

• Sheraz Alvi

  May 30th, 2008 8:38 am

  Well since my last post I have been using WordPress and I have been blown away with the ease of use and customizable functionality of Wordpress. I have tested wordpress to work as a proper CMS and believe me its not a blogging platform its a complete and comprehensive CMS.

  I used it for my sites http://www.corporateskills.co.uk, http://www.maryamalvi.com, http://www.sherazalvi.com, http://www.rcsolicitor.com
  and many more its the best tool if you are doing freelance work as it saves you a lot of time and offer such huge library of plugins and themes that you wont need anything else. I also used it for a ecommerce site and believe me I found an excellent plugin and worked on it to get the functionality out. Now I am moving towards building my own themes and may be plugins God willing.

  Cheers all great post by the way this site http://www.problogger.com is also on Wordpress. So go for it I would say.

• charles

  July 23rd, 2008 12:30 am

  HI!

  I am using blogger as my platform. Which is a better platform? Wordpress or blogger?

  People say that i should change to wordpress but what about my current traffic and links. They will definitely get lost.

  Thank you
  Charles
  http://www.resourcesandmoney.blogspot.com

• Only Katy

  August 20th, 2008 2:52 pm

  We use wordpress and couldn’t be happier… its functional and easy to use – 2.5 has a new interface that looks very modern, and publishing for sub-admin levels is completely hassle-free.

  I wouldn’t dream of embarking on a long term blogging journey using a 3rd party host like blogger. You need to own a domain, an host it there. It will be worth something to someone someday, and that someone shouldn’t be wordpress.com or google.

• Max Ikbal

  November 16th, 2008 7:05 pm

  I’m curious to know about other free and hosted platforms other than wordpress.com and blogger. Any suggestions people??

• Shirley

  December 17th, 2008 8:01 am

  Nice timeless post. I’d like to see the breakdown now. It probably looks pretty much the same.

• Aramis @ london male escorts

  December 20th, 2008 8:24 am

  i’m blown away so much to take in, i use blogger but it’s a pain in the arse and my page rank is now null – could even be sandbox…any advice guys …i am not a techie but i understand seo more ( not great just more )

• Isaac Yassar

  January 15th, 2009 10:51 pm

  Hurray, Blogspot is number two! Great! Blogspot is the perfect platform for bloggers who short on money but rich in ideas and determination. If I have enough resource to start hosting my own domain, I’ll use wordpress.org for sure.

  Anyway Aramis, are you writing articles for human or robots? Forget about page rank, your audience read your contents without ever thinking about your page rank. They don’t care, all they care is the value of your articles, whether your articles help them or not, and that’s it. If you want more advice go to my site and we’ll talk about it. :D

• BloggerGurl

  April 11th, 2009 8:50 pm

  What about Vox? I am sorry to say, that I’d consider using Wordpress.org if it didn’t seem so complex to set up. Also, what about transferring a blog (like mine) to another platform. What complications does that present? Is it wise to just keep it on the current platform…. but I’m wondering if Vox will allow me to insert ads, etc.

• Lara Kulpa

  April 11th, 2009 8:59 pm

  BloggerGurl – Self-hosted WordPress (.org) is NOT complex to set up. They boast about their 5-minute install, and they walk you through it every step of the way on their site. Failing that, you can always consider hiring someone to do it for you.

  Honestly? I’ve been in this business for over 12 years, and your mention of Vox has probably been the 2nd time I’ve ever heard of it. The problem with it (as with any free/freemium blog site) is that despite the fact that they tell you how much control you have, you really have none. Your search engine results depend on what the search engine thinks of Vox.com, not of YOU. It’s unlikely that you can use your own ads anywhere, except MAYBE inside your posts (though I’m not sure of that even). While they offer “hundreds of designs”, you can’t change them or modify the colors or personalize it at all.

  This isn’t just against Vox, it’s against any blog platform that you’re not hosting on your own domain and with your own hosting setup. As for transferring though, Vox is so little used that WordPress.org doesn’t even offer automatic import of your blog (for transferring). The best you could do, is IF Vox offers an RSS feed, you could try it that way, but I’m willing to bet that there will be cleanup on each post after the fact.

  Is it worth it to switch? A thousand times, yes… even if you have to manually copy every post from Vox to your own site.

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