2nd to Choose Between Blogger and Wordpress
At the beginning I took quite some time to decide which free blog hosting to go for. I play around between Blogger and Wordpress with several blogs and check out few other forums to help me with my decision. I did not purchase my own domain and the hosting because I was not sure what I should blog about. Until I have decided on which path that I?ll go I decided to go with the fee blog hosting temporally.
Wordpress was my first choice at the beginning. Considered that in future if I?m going to get my own domain, Wordpress will be my blogging software. Given that Wordpress is the best choice as many blogs seems to be happy with it. It would be good to start learning it with free blogging Wordpress.com so that it won?t be much trouble when switching it to paid hosting. Sadly there is one condition that holds me back from using it. Wordpress.com does not allow third party advertisement. Plus I witness many blogs are been taken off because they violate their terms and condition. Just to be safe, I decided to go with Blogger.
To be honest, Blogger has more freedom towards altering the blog without being penalized. I?m sure you?ve seen many Blogger blogs with extreme display and content. Thus I can put up as many third party advertisement, affiliates and links. Blogger allowed users to edit HTML freely, not like Wordpress.com that you have to pay to make changes. The best part of all I love the Blogger widgets. It?s easy to use as you can add and arranged the page elements just by click, hold and dreg it to any part of the blog. It?s definitely made easy for beginners.
I chose to go with Blogger because it?s easy to use, allowed third party advertisement and don?t have to worry about being kick out. I was quite happy with the decision until the day I got my own domain and hosting. The question is do I start from fresh or transfer my entire blog? At first I was thinking of transferring my whole blog but then moving from Blogger to Wordpress is not an easy task. That is why I decided to start from the bottom again. This way I need to maintain 2 blogs for a period of time then decide to keep the previous blog or not. If I was using Wordpress.com from the beginning then I will have no problem transferring my entire blog.
That is why I propose to go with Wordpress.com in my previous post. The question is that what benefits you can gain from choosing Wordpress.com or Blogger at the beginning. Are you going to start from fresh or transfer your entire blog when decided to get you own domain and hosting. Well, these are the things that you need to plan early if you want to avoid the troubles and losses.
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hi kumo!
i have a blog. already using domain, but still host in blogger.
if i want to host it myself, is it any easy way to move all the posts from blogger to own hosting? maybe using code or something. or i have to do it one by one?
Well, I never did it before but as far as I know this is how you do it.
After you get your own hosting services and install wordpress, you can export you blogger post to wordpress. This is how you can do it.
1. Login Wordpress, go to Manage, go to Import. then click on Blogger - “Import posts, comments, and users from a Blogger blog.” After that just follow the instruction.
2. The second thing that you need to do is to transfer the images that you use from blogger. That’s because your images still linked to blogger. You have to manually save each image and upload them to Wordpress.
3. After that you need to delete your old blog to prevent duplicate content.
I don’t think there is a quicker or easier way to do this. It’s a lot of work that’s why I choose to have 2 blogs.
Ya, it’s a lot of work when comes to transferring site. Another thing that you need to consider is the possibility of data lost during the transferring period.
hi, can you email me.i need more info on transferring wordpress (free blog) to domain