Blogger vs Wordpress

Blogger VS WordPress

Blogging officially became popular in the late 1990′s. As more and more
web surfers became web bloggers, the need for services that catered to
both hosting and blogging programs were highly sought after. Both Blogger
and WordPress have been around since this initial boom of online
blogging and are still going strong to this day.

Products and Services
The one main item that both WordPress and Blogger have in common
 is both popular blogging services offer free accounts. WordPress breaks
away from simply offering free accounts and offers a few more items
many bloggers may find themselves needing down the road – premium
 features and VIP hosting.
Under the premium features offered by WordPress, one will find being able to add a domain to
one’s account, extra storage space, CSS customization, greater video capabilities, no
advertisements, and the ability to have more than 35 users assigned to a blog.
VIP hosting is available with WordPress for those customers who are considered high
 profile and expect more than 500,000 page views per month. These accounts start at
 $500 a month with a onetime setup fee of $600.
Web Hosting Features
Each free blogging account with Blogger comes with an easy to use interface, a free blogger
 domain name (yourname.blogger.com), customizable templates, and simple one click photo
 and video uploads. As the service is owned by Google, accounts can be quickly and easily
 setup with the use of an existing Gmail account. Blog owners can also make money from
their creation with the implementation of ads from Google AdSense.
WordPress offers dozens of themes to choose from, integrated statistics, and a large variety
of sidebar widgets to choose from. An item that WordPress offers which Blogger does not
 is the ability to have more than one page – allowing the creation of an about page, a contact
page, and more.
While not offering audio services (for podcasting), both WordPress and Blogger allow for
 video uploads. This is a very popular and needed service as many of today’s blogs
 incorporate Youtube and other video mediums as part of the blogging experience.
Customer Service
If assistance is required both blogging services provide help sections. WordPress
comes out ahead in this department as the list of topics seems to be never ending.
The more popular topics are shown at the top of the page and each topic is separated
 into easy to view sections. Bloggers help section has a few topic categories with four
or less topics listed under each. Clearly the help section for Blogger needs to be fleshed
out a bit more.
Recommendations
Both blogging services offer great free services. If one is looking for a blog host that
allows for room to grow, more than one page capabilities, and more extensive assistance
should help be required, WordPress is the service to choose.

But, don't think I chose Blogger simply then, it is because Blogger has all the features of
Google integrated into it and lots more. But for people who prefer professional blogging
Wordpress is the site!