And right here, we’ll take a look at both of them – their strengths, their weaknesses, and which one should you use. Let’s go!

Blogger From Google

If you don’t have even a dime to invest for blogging, by all means go for Blogger – the free blogging platform designed by Google. It’s beginner friendly and it’s very easy to use. True, you need to know a couple of HTML codes if you want to add more features to your Blogger blog…BUT trust me, you could master them like the back of your hand within a day or two.

However, Blogger is not without its weaknesses or setbacks. And I think you deserve to know them before you dive in. Here are some of them –

- First and foremost, you’re blog is never yours! It’s still Google’s. That means if you want to sell your blog, you’re out of luck. Not to mention Google can delete your blog when they want it and how they want it. Believe me, I’ve seen many great Blogger blogs go down into flames in this fashion.

- As for the functions and options, they’re very limited. The amount of templates is very limited as well. If you’re going to use Blogger, expect that you’re bound to come across a blog that a design and template that looks just like yours.

And that’s just to name a few!

Here’s the bottom line – if you’re a total blogging beginner and if you don’t have anything to invest in your online ventures, Blogger is the best way to go to get your hands dirty and your feet wet…prepping you for a paid and more advanced platform, which is…

WordPress

If you’re an advanced blogger looking for a platform that gives you flexibility when it comes to options and functions, then WordPress is for you. You can also take advantage of WordPress for free…BUT bloggers who are using it buy hosting and a domain name…for good reason!

- Plugins – they’re your best buddy (the good ones) and your worst enemy (the ones that suck BIG time) when it comes to adding functionality and options to your WordPress Blog.

- You get to own your blog…IF you buy a domain name.

- A look around the net will reveal tons of themes and templates that you can use. Some are paid and some are free. Not to mention many of them looks really professional.

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This kind of development is very much useful for bloggers because the previous version take too much time to load and now bloggers save time out of it. We can see drag and drop feature in this version which makes us easy to arrange the things in a way we work. In the previous version we did not had that option to quick post but we can now do it now. I don’t have many words to describe what are the developments made in this version so see the video to see what developments have been made. I recommend you to upgrade it because it has lot of features.

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The release says:-

“The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php from the 2.6.5 release package.

2.6.5 contains three other small fixes in addition to the XSS fix. The first prevents accidentally saving post meta information to a revision. The second prevents XML-RPC from fetching incorrect post types. The third adds some user ID sanitization during bulk delete requests. For a list of changed files, consult the full changeset between 2.6.3 and 2.6.5″.

We are much interested for the wordpress 2.7 release which promises many improvements. Has to wait and watch.

Click Here to download wordpress 2.6.5

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WordPress Automatic Upgrade:-

This is very important plugin that each and every blogger should have. Each and every year there will be new version of wordpress available for download. So we cannot completely remove the software and upload it again. It is very risky process and it will be difficult for the people who don’t have knowledge about html. So those who don’t have knowledge about html they can upload the plugin and when ever there is a new version of wordpress available then just click upgrade. It will upgrade automatically. While doing the process you need to back up some of files which will be told while upgrading. It is not only useful for upgrading new version of wordpress but also for upgrading the software versions of plugins.

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MaxBlogpress Ping Optimizer:-

This plugin is created by maxblogpress – one of the blogger. He also created many other plugins useful for wordpress bloggers. The plugin helps us in sending pings to services when ever our blog is updated. It will send ping only after complete update of our blog. It will not send unnecessary pings which would result in spam.

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Akismet Spam:-

There is no need to upload this plugin. The plugin will be loaded already when we install wordpress software. It helps us in fighting spam comments on our blog. When ever some body makes a spam comment it will not publish those comments on our blog and we have a chance to disapprove it. We can approve the comments which are not considered as spam. This is important plugin for each and every blog. As our blog becomes popular there will be increase in more and more spam comments .This plugin will engulf the spam comments.

All In One Seo:-

As you people know SEO is important in making our blog popular. This plugin helps in making some SEO to our blog like changing home title, home description, home keywords. I did not know the complete functions of this plugin. But I have made tiny7 changes like home description, home title and home keywords. When I have the complete knowledge of its function I will make separate post about it.

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Cforms:-

This plugin is used in establishing contact form of our own liked style. It is very useful for the people those who don’t have knowledge about html. It helped me a lot because if I would hire some one to code it then It might cost me lot of money. Just upload the plugin , activate it and make some customizations then the contact form will be ready for your blog. Contact form is must for each and every blog for contacting bloggers, advertisers and much more. I got a lot of private advertisements via contact form.

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Dofollow:-

If you are going to participate in paid review programs then this plugin is helpful in removing no-follow attribute. I don’t have any knowledge about removing no-follow attribute on my blog.I am afraid that I will use the design of the blog if I make any mistakes. So I used the plugin to disable no-follow tag on any blog. It is simple, just upload and activate.

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Google Analyticator:-

This plugin is useful in monitoring inflow traffic to our blog. By installing the plugin we will know where the traffic has come from, we can know which ads are clicked, how many times they are clicked. It is best free tool for monitoring traffic.

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Google SiteMaps:-

You might have knowledge about this one. Google sitemaps is must for blogspot or wodpress or any other blog types. Through google sitemaps we can help our site index quickly in search engines. I have created a sitemap for my blog and submitted and my blog was indexed in less than two or three days. The robots will crawl main parts of the site. It is simple to add sitemap to our blog. Just upload the plugin and follow the instructions.

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Max Blog press Favicon:-

This plugin helps in creating our own favicon for our blog. Favicon is must for a blog for recognizing. For example besides my blog url I have star as favicon. When ever some body remember’s my blog name they can remember with that favicon.

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Sociable:-

This plugin adds book marking buttons after each and every post encouraging users to subscribe for our blog. This is really cool and we can choose how many buttons to appear on our blog.

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WordPress Data base backup:-

This is one of most important plugin one should upload before doing any changes to their blog. Suppose if we come across any server crush or any other bug, which have a danger of erasing data then you might be worried, in such a time with the help of this plugin you can back up your database to your computer on daily basis.

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Uploading all this plugins will make wordpress easy. But one thing you should keep in mind that some of the themes you install have plugins embedded in it already. We should enquire about those themes before installing. We can use our blog smoothly after uploading this plugins with out any problem.

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