Comments on: What Blogging Platform Do You Use? [POLL RESULTS]

By: Na Na

Na Na — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:07:11 +0000

I use blogger.com for one of my hair braiding websites, I’m slowly learning wordpress.org. It seems much search engine friendly.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:32:53 +0000

Hey guys, forget all these platforms. klatcher.com is the new big thing. It’s way easier, I tried it out, and you can sell your stories with a 75% revenue share. I got 300% more traffic instantly. The site is new, so its not in the poll. Problogger should update this thing here!

By: Dale

Dale — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:49:46 +0000

Wordpress is great but the new kid in town is Moguling.com It has built in SEO tools and integrated with a social media platform, for more access to eyeballs. Unbelievable tool and its free! thx

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:21:12 +0000

I’ve been using Wordpress on and off for a year.

Nothing really beats it in the Plug-ins and functionality department. And I love the Sociable plugins!

But there’s a major problem with Wordpress. It churns out totally blank pages although the backend (admin) looks fine. De-activating plugins do not work and the root of the problem is hard to nail.

Look into the wordpress forum and do a search. The number of people having blank pages is still a mystery. If anyone has a solution please PM me at my IMVU homepage. THANKS!

By: Irfan

Irfan — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:12:01 +0000

I use http://moguling.com/ ..its more SE friendly…so far no problem with it and saw a slight increase in new customer to my biz after i started using it.

By: Diana

Diana — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:04:16 +0000

I can’t believe in all the Wordpress hype I’ve read, NO ONE bothers to mention that every damn thing you do to your blog is going to require that you know and use coding.

EVERYTHING.

This is not for a layperson.

By: RennyBA

RennyBA — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:49:21 +0000

I used Blogger for more than a year, but are very happy to have migrated to WP. Mostly for the reasons:

1: I wanted to have my own domain name
2. I wanted to host it on my web hotell
3: Great features and easy to get the template and layout you want.

By: Camilla

Camilla — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:16:24 +0000

I have my own domain; but I’m embarrassed to admit I am using Go Daddy’s Quick Blogcast. I’m new to this (one month) and I am on the opposite end of those who just keep researching and never get started. I just jumped in and did it. Now; I see I chose a horrible platform. I have absolutely no control. Have you written any posts that address the difficulty of changing once you’ve already begun? Thanks so much for this poll!

By: Hazel

Hazel — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:44:23 +0000

Like Tyler above, I wrote my own blogging engine. It is far harder to use and lacks most of the features of WordPress or Blogger, but I’m currently developing the second iteration which is far more feature complete, better designed and will hopefully serve me well in the future.
Coding a blog isn’t difficult, rewriting dozens of plugins can be.

By: Alfred Saforo

Alfred Saforo — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:37:40 +0000

I am so sad squarespace was at the bottom of your rankings. I can give you 10 reasons why squarespace is better than blogger or word press follow my link.

By: Stephen, FINDCASH.TK

Stephen, FINDCASH.TK — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:45:13 +0000

Blogger (click to view my site)

By: maplist

maplist — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:22:32 +0000

wordpress is better than blogger since it’s more socialable for its tags

By: Manish Pandey

Manish Pandey — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:09:44 +0000

Wordpress gives you an ease to manage things and it’s so popularly used by bloggers.

By: Chris Jacobson

Chris Jacobson — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:13:59 +0000

You forgot BlogSmith as a platform again. :(

By: Gizmo

Gizmo — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:57:43 +0000

Both Blogger and Wordpress.org

By: Tyler Ingram

Tyler Ingram — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:36:16 +0000

I use a custom script of my own design! Granted I’ve looked at some aspects of Wordpress’ code to figure out how some things are done (namely the properl formatting of the XML for RSS feeds) but mine is all done by me.

I am proud of it too! Since not many people can say they’ve coded their own blog script!

By: The Opinionated Blogger

The Opinionated Blogger — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:11:10 +0000

I was quite shocked at how many people don’t have their own domain. I would have thought WordPress.org would have been skewed quite high.

By: Max Powers

Max Powers — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:00:02 +0000

I guess 4th place is better than last. I Picked MT out of the blue when I started, now I’m afraid to change over to anything else for fear of screwing everything up.

By: randomvandal

randomvandal — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:24:12 +0000

Wordpress is cool but they should allow you to be able to customise your site to a greater extent. I know we are in the early years of mass blogging but if they stepped up their game they could dominate the market…

My website looks OK but there is so much i wanna do with it but im a poor and broke student….(www.randomvandal.wordpress.com)

By: MaxBro

MaxBro — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:51:58 +0000

Aside from all the great themes and ease of use, one great feature about WordPress is it can help build your traffic by linking to a post from your blog from its front page.

I’m not sure how WP picks them, whether it’s editorial or algorithm-based (number of comments, hits, etc.) but it can definitely help get you exposure from quality clickers.