Comments on: Blog Platforms – Poll Results

By: Lara Kulpa

Lara Kulpa — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:59:39 +0000

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.

By: BloggerGurl

BloggerGurl — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:50:05 +0000

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.

By: Isaac Yassar

Isaac Yassar — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:51:57 +0000

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

By: Aramis @ london male escorts

Aramis @ london male escorts — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:24:09 +0000

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 )

By: Shirley

Shirley — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:01:28 +0000

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

By: Max Ikbal

Max Ikbal — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:05:22 +0000

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

By: Only Katy

Only Katy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:52:51 +0000

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.

By: charles

charles — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:30:05 +0000

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

By: Sheraz Alvi

Sheraz Alvi — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:38:01 +0000

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.

By: Matti

Matti — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:54:23 +0000

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.

By: Jerry Ong

Jerry Ong — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:04:19 +0000

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

By: Sheraz Alvi

Sheraz Alvi — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:49:42 +0000

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????

By: amituofo

amituofo — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:09:25 +0000

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?

By: Sheraz Alvi

Sheraz Alvi — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:27:46 +0000

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 :)

By: VirtualDude

VirtualDude — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:01:22 +0000

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.

By: Sheraz Alvi

Sheraz Alvi — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:17:02 +0000

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!!!!!

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By: Rick Lecoat

Rick Lecoat — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:34:46 +0000

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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