WordPress vs Blogger – The Right Comparison 2019

Today there are many platforms to create a blog or web page quickly and without having to know about programming and Web design. Technology has evolved a lot in recent years and now the average user without much knowledge can create his own blog in just a few minutes.

However, of so many options that are available, how do you know which one is the best?

When we talk about blogging platforms, the 2 most popular ones come to mind:

Blogger
WordPress

Blogger is part of the great variety of tools that Google offers along with Gmail, Drive, Google Plus, calendar, hangout and others. It has become very popular in large part thanks to its easy installation, its synchronization with these applications (with Gmail in particular) and of course, for being part of the king of the Internet (Google)!

Recently, the design, interface and features of Blogger have improved a lot and every day is more attractive and easy to use. It offers several templates, a good text editor, traffic statistics and much more.

WordPress.com vs Blogger. The correct comparison

However, if we compare it with WordPress, it would have to be with WordPress.com and not with WordPress.org.

How is that?

Remember that WordPress is available in 2 formats:

WordPress.com (free)
WordPress.org (downloadable platform that is downloaded and installed in a domain of its own

WordPress.com is very similar to Blogger because both are free services, based on the company’s own servers and with a style domain with “blogspot.com” or “wordpress.com” ending. That is, if I want to create a finance blog called “Learning Finance” and create it with Blogger or WordPress.com. The domain would look something like this:

http://aprendiendofinanzas.blogspot.com
http://aprendiendofinanzas.wordpress.com

This is not a bad option, on the contrary, both platforms offer many tools and advantages to have a good blogging experience.

Both Blogger and WordPress.com suffer from (almost) the same problems: little control over the content, you can not use plugins, risk of having your account closed, etc.

WordPress.ORG is a downloadable platform that is installed in your own domain with web hosting. What does this mean? That my finance blog would be:

Inicio

Better. Having your own domain and using WordPress.ORG is the best blogging experience you can have. It offers unique advantages in SEO, security, installation and use of plugins, design, total control over publication and much more.