Blogger is one of the most popular (free) blogging platforms. It will not make sense to say that it is not good even if there are other better alternatives for it.
WordPress in the other hand is said to be the most popular platform with the best SEO options. Nevertheless, it cannot be the only best platform.
Therefore, I will try to give you a detailed Blogger Vs WordPress Review?ÂSo that you can make a better decision.
This post will also look at the SEO aspects of the two platforms so that you can judge yourself which one is better in SEO, Therefore, in order to understand whether this or that is better for SEO we will try to understand what is SEO
What is SEO in Blogger
SEO stands for Search engine optimization. It is defined as the practice of improving a website/webpage to increase it’s visibility on the search engine’s organic results pages (SERPs).
When someone search for something in the search engines the search engine will use the keywords and the search intend to provide relevant results for the person.
In the other side. It will select the pages it believed to be more relevant, qualitative, and informative from the list of it’s indexed pages that it has stored.
Therefore, these process of making search engine believe that your website/webpage is relevant, qualitative, and informative for particular search query is what is called SEO.
Therefore, we will try to look at these features of a SEO friendly platform that determines our freedom and the extent of our SEO in relation to Blogger and WordPress SEO.
Blogger Vs WordPress Review? Including SEO review.
Blogger Vs WordPress Ease of Use
Blogger is easier to learn and maintain at the same time. You can start your blog with few steps within few minutes and start blogging immediately.
When I started my first blog with Blogger I didn’t know that my blog is hosted because I didn’t know that I need hosting for my blog. But Blogger did it all for me and I could not realize it un till sometime.
WordPressis not that too simple and easy since you need to do everything by yourself. And there is so much headache for beginners who starts there first blog with WordPress with little or no experience.
Blogger Vs WordPressCustomization
Blogger is easy to customize but have limitation. Your blog will not look completely unique as you wanted.
WordPressis not that much easy to customize but the customization is unlimited. You can add custom design and codes without limit.
Blogger Vs WordPress Plugins Support
Bloggerdoes not support plugins and custom codes like the WordPress. Which makes it difficult to create SEO friendly websites and contents. It takes a lot of expertise to optimize blogger blog and pages/post. Nevertheless, it has some default SEO features such as adding mega description for your blog and posts, adding HTML/JavaScript codes, Google search console in build, post template, etc.
WordPressone of the reasons why WordPress is SEO friendly is the ability to add plugins. Even if you are not very familiar with SEO, you can install plugins that will help you optimize your website and pages. There are still many tutorials on YouTube that will guide you on how to use the particular plugin.
Plugins like the All In One SEO plugins will help you to add keywords and create better mega descriptions for you pages. And many other plugins that will help are available for anything you may think. Read our All In One SEO Review
Blogger Vs WordPress URL Customization
Blogger,it is difficult to get a unique URLs on Blogger. Some blogspot users use custom codes to customize their Blogger URL which is not recommended for your blog security. Some codes are designed with additional purpose that you may not know.
WordPressis ok for URL customization. You can create a unique URLs for your website with easy.