Free Blog Software and Development – Blogger

[Maximus]

The main Wordpress competitor on the free blog market is Blogger. Blogger is a free blog hosting service provided by Google. Herein, you can expect 24/7 adequate support and almost constant uptime. The interface of Blogger is very intuitive and user-friendly. Because of that, you can create your new blog, modify it a little, and start posting in less than 1 hour. There is a big variety of pre-made blog templates in blogger, which you can select with a single mouse click. You can modify the overall format of these premade templates, the used fonts, background, links, post format, post fonts, etc… You can create numerous different blogs in Blogger. The Blog administrating and management is made very accessible and user-friendly. From the Blogger main control dashboard, you can navigate through your blogs, select a certain blog, post a new article, etc… The Blogger platform features detailed blog stats, including article popularity stats, international/regional visitors’ stats, sources of traffic, and even more. The Blogger architecture is optimized for AdSense ad-campaigns, and because of that you can start showing ads on your new blog immediately. You can check the generated income from AdSense by simply visiting the appropriate financial tab in your main Blogger dashboard. In Blogger you have full control of all new comments through the comments tab in the main dashboard, which makes the spam control way easier. With this free blog platform you don`t have to worry about any updates, because everything is completely automated. You could just create your new blog, put a custom logo and background, setup the overall appearance according to your preferences, and start posting new articles. The trustworthy provider behind this blog platform and the completely intuitive interface are making Blogger a good start point for your first project as a webmaster.

It will be great, if someone else using Blogger, posts his/her experience, ideas, or questions in this thread.

[Apaullo]

I have friends who uses Blogger as their software, but I was introduced to Wordpress first and I immediately liked it, it would be great if there is someone here who uses Blogger and will share about his experience with it

[Maximus]

Yes, when a user get used to a certain software platform, he/she usually continue using it for a long time. The ``migration`` to another software products is usually difficult , and it is even harder when the previous blog software platform is the first that you have ever used. There are many similarities between Blogger and Wordpress, however, the initial ``migration`` could still be difficult for most of the bloggers.